How to identify your unique gifts to project the best of yourself on your membership site?
It is difficult for most people to define what they really know how to do well and then transform that gift into a membership site that not only gives them the satisfaction of contributing something meaningful to the world, but also gives them a generous monetary reward. Here are 3 questions you can ask yourself to discover some strengths of your own that you have not appreciated and are waiting for you to polish and make them shine much more.
Last weekend our daughter invited us to see a movie titled “That's What I Am” (I recommend you watch it).
It describes the challenges that a 13-year-old boy faces in his pre-adolescent stage. My favorite character is his teacher, a wise man who knew how to help his students identify their unique talents.
I wish the educational system had more teachers like this!
As an online businesswoman helping others discover, develop and monetize their talents with an online business, I see how difficult it is for most people to define what they really know how to do well and then transform that gift into a membership site that It not only gives them the satisfaction of contributing something meaningful to the world, but it also provides them with a generous monetary reward.
Most people - including relatively successful entrepreneurs - do not even suspect that they are experts in something, since for them their gift is so natural that they do not know how to value or develop it, much less sell it.
Will you be one of those people who have a gift –or several under-used gifts and who, therefore, are having an impact far below your full potential?
There is only one way to find out: Investigate it!
Here are 3 questions you can ask yourself to discover some of your own strengths that you have not appreciated and are waiting for you to polish and make them shine much more:
1. What interests did you show as a child?
Go back to the essential: what you were before entering the education system: What did you like to do as a child? What did your parents say you knew how to do well? What profession did you want to choose when you grew up? What did you do in your free time?
2. What do others say about you?
Pay attention and watch when someone approaches you and asks you for help with something or advice on a certain topic. That person approached you and not others for something. Find out what it is and try not only to discover the gift they look for in you to solve their problems, but also your motivation to help them.
This is the most important question, because it will help you discover strong areas that you possess and that are normally undervalued, both by you and by others:
3. What is the inner motivation that underlies everything you do?
If you dig a little beyond your obvious gifts, you will find a main motivation that characterizes you and of which you are probably not so aware.
For example, one of our daughters has a great sense for aesthetics.
While we were educating her at home, we noticed that she had facilities for mathematics, but, looking beyond what the educational system would traditionally use to identify her gifts, I discovered that she placed great emphasis on writing her exercises aesthetically, especially when I was drawing graphics.
He also showed this trend in several other subjects and usually occupied himself with drawing something while I read books to our 4 children.
Later she developed her aesthetic perception much more, began to design her own wardrobe and today she is a successful model.
Do you realize how there can be hidden gifts in you that are not so easy to perceive? In the same way, once you have defined your gifts and talents, you can find a winning idea for your membership site.
