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Talent Is Never Enough<br />You cannot sustain on talent alone<br />The following are 13 traits of a talented person<br />Based upon John C. Maxwell’s book <br />

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“Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with the inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.”<br />– Sophia Loren<br />

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Belief Lifts Your Talent<br />“We cannot live in a way that is inconsistent with<br />our expectations for ourselves.”<br />- John Maxwell <br />

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Passion Energizes Your Talent<br /><ul><li> Passion is the fist step to achievement

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Passion increases willpower

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Passion produces energy

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Passion is the foundation for excellence

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Passion is the key to success

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Passion makes a person contagious</li></li></ul><li>Initiative Actives Your Talent<br /><ul><li> Accept responsibility for your life

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Examine your reason for not initiating

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Focus on the benefits of completing a task

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Share your goal with a friend who can help you

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Break large tasks down into smaller ones

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Allocate specific times to tasks you might procrastinate

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Remember, preparation includes doing</li></li></ul><li>There are Four kinds of people:<br /><ul><li> People who do the right thing without being told

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People who do the right thing when told

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People who do the right thing when told more than once

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People who never do the right thing, no matter what</li></ul>Where do YOU fit into this?<br />

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Focus Directs Your Talent<br /><ul><li> Focus on what you can do, not what you cannot

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Focus doesn’t come naturally to most people

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Focus increases your energy

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Focus lifts you

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Focus expands your life

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Focus must be intentionally sustained</li></li></ul><li>Suggestions for improving focus:<br /><ul><li> Be intentional – Make every action count

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Challenge your excuses

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Don’t let yesterday Hijack your attention

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Focus on the present

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Stay focused on results

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Develop and follow your priorities

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Focus on your strengths, not your weaknesses

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Delay rewards until the job is done</li></li></ul><li>Five people you will likely encounter in life:<br />1. Refreshers – They inspire your dreams and energize your talents. <br />2. Refiners – They sharpen your ideas and clarify your vision.<br />3. Reflectors – They mirror your energy, neither adding or subtracting from it.<br />4. Reducers – They try to reduce your vision and efforts to their comfort level.<br />5. Rejecters– They deny your talent, hinder your efforts, and impede your vision.<br />

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Preparation Positions Your Talent<br /><ul><li> Preparation allows you to tap into your talent

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Preparation is a process, not an event

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Preparation precedes Opportunity</li></ul>- Three steps to preparation<br />1. Assessment – Am I evaluating correctly<br />2. Alignment – Am I lined up correctly<br />3. Attitude – Am I visualizing correctly<br />

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Practice Sharpens Your Talent<br />“Excellence is an art won by training and habitation…<br />We are what we repeatedly do.” – Aristole<br /><ul><li> Practice Enables Development

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Practice leads to discovery

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Practice demands discipline</li></li></ul><li>Perseverance Sustains Your Talent<br />“Think things through, then follow through”<br /><ul><li>Eddie Rickenbacker

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Perseverance means succeeding because you are determined, not destined.

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Perseverance recognizes life is not a long race, but many short ones in succession

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Perseverance is needed to release most of life’s rewards

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Perseverance has a compounding effect of life

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Perseverance means not stopping because you are tired but because the task is done

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Perseverance doesn’t demand more than we have, but all that we have</li></ul>To persevere …<br />FindPurpose - Eliminate Excuses - Develop Stamina<br />

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Courage Tests Your Talent<br />Our courage will be tested…<br /> When our convictions, once expressed are challenged<br /> When learning and growing will display our weakness<br /> When we take the high road and others treat us badly<br /> When being out front makes us an easy target<br /> Whenever we face obstacles to our progress<br />

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Teachability Expands Your Talent <br />“Talented people often think they know it all. And that makes it more difficult for them to continually expand their talent”<br />– John Maxwell<br /><ul><li> Nothing is interesting if you are not interested

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Successful people view learning differently from those who are unsuccessful

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Learning is meant to be a lifelong pursuit

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Talented people can be the toughest to teach

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Pride is the number one hindrance toTeachability</li></li></ul><li>Character Protects Your Talent<br />Through; <br /><ul><li> Self discipline

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Core values

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A sense of identity

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Integrity</li></ul>3 things to remember:<br />1. Don’t give up or in to adversity<br />2. Do the right thing<br />3. Take control of your life<br />

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Relationships Influence Your Talent<br />“ Surround your self with people who add value to you and encourage you, and your talent will go in a positive direction” - John Maxwell<br /><ul><li> Some relationships take from us

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Some relationships add to us

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Some relationships are pivotal in our lives</li></ul>Solid Signs:<br /><ul><li>Mutual enjoyment

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Respect

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Shared experiences

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Trust

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Reciprocity</li></ul>Building Talent-Plus relationships<br /><ul><li>Identify the most important people in your life

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Assess whether they are influencing you in the right direction

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If your friends aren’t friends, make new ones</li></li></ul><li>Responsibility Strengthens Your Talent<br /><ul><li> Start wherever you are

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Choose your friends wisely

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Stop blaming others

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Make tough decisions and stand by them

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Live beyond yourself</li></li></ul><li>Teamwork Multiplies Your Talent<br />“One is too small a number to achieve greatness”<br />~ John Maxwell<br /><ul><li> Teamwork divides the effort and multiplies the effect

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Talent wins games, but teamwork wins championships

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Teamwork is not about you

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Adding value to others adds value to you

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Include the team in your dream</li></li></ul><li>“Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with the inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.”<br />– Sophia Loren<br />