I am talented

I suppose this is where I put my click bait. e.g "you'll be amazed at this tip to make you more talented" or 5 things to do to automatically make you better at everything...... Well nope !! I do have some tips at the end. But I think its more about affirming the path that you're on and acknowledging changes you are making or subconsciously know about.

There are a couple of things I want to cover in this blog

-The talent balance

-Every person and their talent identity

-Summary and tips (don't skip to the tips they wont make sense ya cheater)

So I was talking to my mum ! hahaha most of my blogs are probably going to start like this

So I was talking to my mum about my anxieties of performance and pre-gig nerves etc. Really just about the negative stories we tell ourselves no matter how good we have become or how many years we done a particular job. Kind of like that one guy in the crowd that said you were rubbish, regardless of all the applause. It is very easy to believe the worst especially if you know you can be better. But I am straying from the point.

She (mum) then went on to coach and encourage me. She starts telling me not to worry about my nerves before this gig, I possibly only have them because its important to me and its normal. That I am gifted, talented and that everything will be work out the way it should.

By the way having someone believe in you this way is so special. Everyone needs this but that is another blog.

​Anyway

Have you ever watched a talented person waste it and think if I had that !!! Just as youth is wasted on the young.

I remember working with a spectacular musician. He could play anything and everything within seconds of hearing it, I don't mean silly pop songs I mean complex compositions. He could hear it, program it into a computer with one hand while composing another song with the other. Any instrument all instruments. This is no exaggeration, the talented called him a freak genius. Almost all of the traveling musicians I knew at that time were getting their programming or sequence work from him. I had another opportunity to meet someone else like this who was ridiculously talented but in another environment and a young lady as well in a similar field.

Now what are the obvious traits or behaviours that they displayed and shared?

1. Completely and fully engaged in what they did -
   
2. They are continuous working on it, in it or with it
   
3. Erratic or irregular sleep. Sleeping for either 3 hours or 30 hours
   
4. Obvious dysfunction in day to day life. Things like health, money and relationships were quite unmanageable not just a little but in a very obvious way.

Ok keeping that were it is. I want to now think about something else before bringing it together.

That is the topic of everyone and their personal talent identity.

I want you to ask yourself these questions

1. do you have a talent?
   
2. do you use this in your current job?
   
3. do you regularly practice or refine it?

A great deal of people will often answer no to all of these which is just sad.

Then there is the group of you that identify you have a talent but is not used at work.

and the last lot who identify it, work at it daily and it is their source of income.

r watched someone do something amazing, on the sports field or take lead at work or create a work of art and think... Hmmm if that person can do it, why not me?