Use Your Gifts!

Richard Leider in his book The Power of Purpose wrote a short paragraph that I’ve always thought speaks volumes about the obvious being so easily overlooked in life.  In it he writes;

“Our upbringing has convinced many of us that anything requiring hard work is valuable, and anything that comes easily and does not require hard work is less worthy.  About our gifts we often think, “this come easily, so it must be easy for everyone”.  We underestimate its worth.  Actually, our enjoyed gifts are our most powerful talents of all.  And to be fulfilled in our lives, we must unlock and express them”.

Too often we focus on those elements in ourselves that we are less good at rather than maximizing the use of those God given gifts we are all born with.

Richard Leider is a bestselling author and founder of Inventure- The Purpose Company.  He is ranked by Forbes as one of the Top 5 most respected executive coaches  and by the Conference Board as a legend in coaching.  He is the author of 9 books.