The Life Purpose Podcast on Life Signatures Radio

One of the biggest mistakes we do with raw talent is to over-emphasise its importance to us monetarily so much so that we put undue pressure on it and it ultimately doesn't develop.

When people realise that there is potential somewhere with a natural gift and talent, they see only what they can benefit from it. They start counting the millions even before that gift has been nurtured to maturity.

When it comes to developing natural gifts and talents, maturity is of great essence. Instead of seeking prominence, seek obscurity as you develop. Listen to this.

Patience, they say, pays. That cuts across just about every strata of society and most especially when it comes to deploying our natural gifts and talents.

Unfortunately, we live in a world that is so demanding of the now. We have the urgency of the now to pay bills and take care of things. That set up does not bode well with the gospel of developing our gifts and talents.

Why? Because it takes time to grow a mango tree. It takes time to develop a natural gift to the level that it is fruitful and beneficial not just to you, but to the world.

So people would rather be distracted with this and that in order to "eke out a living" than to grow their potential. Listen to this.

Natural gifts and talents are like our acres of diamonds, for the most part. We find ourselves looking for the spectacular answers to our lives while all along we are oblivious that we are gifted and talented.

The answers that we are looking for in life are seldom out there in another continent. Some clues to our life's greatest breakthroughs could be right where we are or maybe even within us in terms of our natural gifts and talents.

But for some reason, we choose to look elsewhere. For the converted though, we learn that there are some things that we ought to do in order to develop our gifts. Here is one of them. Listen in.

It is an open secret, even though many people are not bold enough to agree, that natural gifts and talents are important in society. Not just for hobbies, but also for personal and national economies.

In the mainstream, it is hard to find a system that has been institutionalized and set aside specifically to nurture gifts and talents. Many have the gifts but they are struggling to make ends meet.

We need to have ways that we can develop these natural gifts and talents. Before that though, we have to be bold enough to acknowledge the fact that natural gifts and talents have a firm place in society.

After that, we need to build systems in place to oversee their development. Listen to this.

The most common thing you will find about people is their uniqueness and their giftedness. A vast majority of people in any gathering are gifted. If anything, I do believe that all of us have gifts and talents.

We do not recognize this on a large scale because we tend to think that it is a domain of sportspeople, entertainers, orators and highly gifted academicians. Nothing can be further from the truth.

Once we have realized the fact that we do have natural gifts and talents, it then follows that we have to find a way to develop them. This, I believe is one of the most potent of them all. Listen to this.