Push Your Talents And You Will Discover Your Genius
ADVANCE CONFIDENTLY!
“Life is not about discovering our talents; it is about pushing our talents to the limit and discovering our genius.” -Robert Brault
There have been many people throughout history who discovered their talent and then that’s where it ended… They never took the time to develop that talent into something more.
Having a special talent and not developing it or sharing it is like buying someone a gift and never giving it to them. The gift does nothing for the person who bought it, or for the intended recipient, nothing!
It is only in the exchange that value is created. Ideas and talents can be likened to gifts. Shared, they become powerful, perhaps even priceless, not unlike a diamond. Unshared, they are interesting, the same way a hot air balloon is interesting tethered to the ground…
However, tethered to the ground the balloon is only full of the POTENTIAL to rise and soar into flight. Genius happens when the tethers are released and the brilliant, bright and awe-inspiring balloon takes flight. In the air, high in the sky for all to see, we marvel at its majestic appearance! And the riders in the basket, they have a new perspective of earth as well, for they have tapped into the power and the brilliance of the balloon!
Go out and soar today, decide to develop one small facet of the brilliance that is YOU! Remember, you are not so unlike the diamond in the rough. To the untrained eye, we might not even recognize a diamond and we certainly wouldn’t know if our own back yard was full of diamonds if we didn’t know what to look for.
A diamond doesn’t become what it is until it meets the eye of the stonecutter. It is the skill of the stonecutter, (their talent pushed), that allows for them to see the finished product in their minds eye when the stone is still a lifeless lump of glass.
It is the application of their skill, their talent that pushes them to become a respected and possibly highly sought-after stonecutter. The apprentice stonecutter does not begin with the Hope Diamond. No, they spend countless hours working on and perfecting their craft so that one day, when the invitation comes to create a masterpiece, they are ready!
Having discovered their talent for stonecutting, they pushed past the thankless task and engaged in the day to day monotonous and mundane work of becoming a genius, a genius stonecutter.
Now, amply prepared, when the call comes in to create the next Hope Diamond, instead of wondering why they were called, they say to themselves instead, of course they called, who else would they have called ,they were looking for a Genius to turn their lump of glass into a diamond, of course they called me, after all, I am a genius stonecutter.”
It is important to understand that this is not hubris, this is much more. It is the confidence that comes from countless hours of beating on their craft the same way a chunk of metal is heated and cooled, pounded and shaped into a sword of destiny. The sword is heated, pounded, shaped, cooled, and then the process is repeated hundreds or thousands of times to temper the steel, and then finally, the finished product emerges as “Art.”
The sword maker is no different than the stonecutter or the CEO, the restauranteur, or the accountant, the lawyer or the sales professional, the writer or the producer, the brain surgeon or the entrepreneur. Each must work on their craft, honing their efforts, putting in the mundane hours of study and practice on their given talent or chosen endeavor, so they can emerge a genius, not overnight but “one day at a time.”
Push your talents and discover your GENIUS!
Keep Pedaling, Keep going, Keep Growing!
Advance Confidently!
