Starting to Uncover Your Gifts and Talent

This tool is Uncovering Your Gifts and Talents. Give yourself some quiet time to answer and journal on the questions below.

1. What are your natural gifts and talents?

Your natural gifts and talents show up in early childhood. They are natural and easy for you, they are things you have been doing and never really noticed. You assumed everyone else was doing the same thing. You might be a natural performer, explorer, builder, fixer or anything else. Sometimes you discover a natural talent when you take a course on something you were curious about and discover that you love it and excel at it.

2. How would you describe your personal style?

Your personal style is the way you do what you do. Do you have flamboyance? A healing calm? Are you the center of attention in a group or someone who prefers to have a deeper 1 on 1 relationship? How do you dress? What spaces do you enjoy?

3. What are Your Shadow gifts?

Your shadow gifts are those things about yourself that weren't approved of by our parents or others when you were young. Things that you were criticized or shamed about and decided to disown. You may have decided that certain traits were undesirable and didn't allow yourself to behave that way. An example might be that you had a lot of energy and were excited about life so you could not sit still but you were always told to sit still. Eventually, you did.

These can be some hard questions I know. If you are unsure that is completely normal we are not trained as human beings how to discover these things or that they are important.