Hey everybody! It's Andy! Welcome to my show where I help you build a career you
love today we're gonna talk about how to find your gift and I've been wanting to
do this one for a long time because I feel like so much of your happiness and
success can come if you are living your gifts and I'm talking about offering
this out to the world so I want to give you a my formula that I used to get here
today so that we could be doing this and I let me tell you if it's not a straight
line there was nothing linear about it it was quite the Odyssey but I am here
today so I'm hoping that will inspire you to put in the work and really
manifest the gift to your gift the extent that this world needs it so I
hope you enjoyed this one I got a prescription for you today it's going to
be part how-to part motivation and I'm gonna stick a little maybe a one line
challenge in here at the end that that I want you to think about and hope
hopefully inspires you to get to get rolling now before we get into the
here's how I want to talk about a few concepts that I want you to think about
as we go through today's today's talk it's gonna be a you know handful of
points I'm gonna make but as I make these points and way to think about
something that I believe in and I'm gonna keep coming back to this but I
think a gift has been with you your entire life
and I think a lot of you have probably you probably know what it is and maybe
you've seen it maybe you've ignored it maybe you've suppressed it I I know I
know I did I mean I I think a lot of us we yokai wake up one day and we say how
the hell did I get here I know I did that in my late 30s you can count me in
on that list of people that that have done that but I think as we go through
this talk today if you keep three things in mind and I'm gonna kind of talk to
you about how to how to how to do this but if you if you are able to look far
enough back into your into your life and I'm talking all the way back all the way
back as far back as you can remember or and you can kind of step back from where
today at any any moment in time your present moment if you can step back far
enough to kind of look at yourself objectively in what you're doing and
then I think the other thing is if you ask yourself the right questions I mean
really give the question a fair shake meaning you are actually answering it
really thinking about it and I'm gonna give you some of those today so I just I
want you to think in that context as we kind of as we walk through you know as
we walk walk through the talk so let's talk about that first one I mentioned
about about looking back in in your life and I'm I'm in my early 50s I'm 52 and I
think about as I went back to my childhood but but the thing the first
thing that I want you to do is I want you to look back and I want you to think
about your whole evolution so I don't care if you're 22 or 52 like I am or in
your 70s which you think back about your life there's a common thread or a theme
that permeates every single thing that you that you've done it's there it's
there and I'm gonna I'm gonna kind of take you through what I've gone through
you know I think back to my childhood you know when I was in school and
playing sports as a youngster and I thought about school and I was a pretty
good student but I really care about the subjects all that much I mean nothing
really that I was learning and math and science and English and also none of
that really you know was I really taken with but what I really enjoyed was
helping the other students and and and kind of coaching them up and and and
giving them some help and and helping them see things that made me feel great
or when I was in sports I played sports it wasn't really and I played a lot of
different sports but it wasn't really the sport itself that I loved I loved
kind of hanging out with my friends and teaching of my practice routines and how
I would try to develop and get good at something and that that to me was always
fun and then I got into college and this is kind of where I you know I don't know
if you want to call it a mistake but instead of focusing and trying to think
about what it was that I loved and I granted you as a teenager not a lot of
us have evolved but I studied what I was good at instead of what I loved so I was
good in math and science so I thought I should be
engineering student hos electril engineering student because I thought
that was my path to a good job so I studied that I didn't much care about
Ohm's law never have still don't to this day and as I got through the schooling
and I was about to embark on my professional career one thing that I
knew right away was I better not become an engineer I'm not gonna have a happy
life so I tried to pick something that I could I could you know focus on that
would would help me be a little more of me I got into technology consulting I I
thought about you know hey this ought to be pretty cool I'll be able to help
companies I like that I'll get to see some different things I'll be able to
help the clients and the people that I'll be working with and maybe maybe my
teammates so on I went but you know I didn't care much about technology
consulting either I always liked helping the people
helping my clients helping the individuals that were on my team or my
in my unit and that's what really drove
and as I you know then I woke up I was in my late 30s and I thought how the
hell do I get here I I don't even I don't even like any of this stuff so
that's when I decided to become a recruitment firm owner I thought I'll
take one step closer to helping people and then a few years back it was
becoming a trainer and now we can do this and if I look back at my entire
life the one constant for me I think my gift
me is helping people and and getting them to where they want to go whether
that's their job their life or however it may be and to be able to teach them
and so that to me I just I was always drawn to that and it was an element of
what I was doing now your gift you don't have to make a wholesale change here I
mean your gift can be elements of what you do but you got to look far enough
back to look and see what that common denominator is so that's the first thing
second thing is you know talk about this because this is a confusing this really
this one here this is actually a confusing confusing topic I am NOT going
to go and tell you to pursue your passion okay I want you to be passionate
about what you do but I think passion in and of itself is not something that
people really understand when you think about passion and I think about energy I
like to focus on what energizes me so if you look to see what really gives you
that energy let's talk about energy and passion here for a second nobody's born
with passion okay we don't I didn't like come out of mommy's womb and then all of
a sudden I wanted to be a teacher or a trainer or coach or whatever
no you're born in between the time you were born and now you were introduced to
something or you found something or you encountered something that through
repeated interaction with you fell in love with and developed a passion for it
you might have enjoyed it almost instantaneously but to develop a real
passion is some is something that you need to be in touch with over and over
again but those things that energize you that give you energy and likely these
will be one in the same but you got to think about focusing on what energizes
you which will lead you to your passions and I think that one is something that
takes a long time to develop the other something that you can see very easily
so make sure that you are looking at what gives me energy what do I like to
do this this gives me energy there is no way I could even fake the fact that in a
normal month for me I am live by 20 hours between my free stuff and my paid
stuff ok my paid coaching and my free coaching you don't spend 20 hours in
front of the camera with people because you don't like it it gives me energy I
love to be connected with you and then in that same vein I think the other
thing that you need to look at is you need to have taken note of how it will
positively impact others so now think about this for a second you've got
something that you that energizes you and it gives you fuel and there's some
internal motivation there because you love it and then you think about the way
it benefits others that in and of itself is a great pull towards what your gift
is but imagine you've got your customers your community whoever it is that you're
serving pulling you for that asking you for more giving you feedback that it's
helping them you think about this this this interaction don't minimize when you
put a nice comment down there on YouTube that says hey you really helped me there
are such a poke to keep me going that goes a long way and helping you know me
refill my tank so so imagine that one-two punch it internally energizes
you and you've got the pull from from the people that you are serving whoa
that is a phenomenal phenomenal one-two combo and then the other thing that I'd
like to throw in for you is is is a little something that that I work on
with some of my job seeking folks may you you probably know that I have a job
search boot camp it's a it's a wonderful job search program and the first part of
the program is about developing self-awareness and clarity understanding
your why and what drives you and then making sure that you can test it so that
it's substantiated but there's also an element
checking that you're on the right track and I give the member seven observations
that they can make to know that just to cue them you are on the right track I
want to give you one of those cues right now it's an external cue and that people
around you are likely telling you you are graded it whether it's your
customers the people you serve the the community whoever it might be your
friends your family your loved ones these people they see you differently
than you see yourself sometimes we're our own worst critics we don't always
recognize how good we are at something until somebody gives us a you know an
outsider's perspective so I want you to pay attention kind of point number four
is I want you to pay attention to that external feedback and what's and what's
happening and what's happening so that that that one there that's that's a
that's a pretty good one that's a pretty good indication that you're on you're on
the right track and then the other thing that I want you to keep in mind is and
here's a question that I want you to ask yourself flat out question what kind of
legacy do you want to leave what kind of legacy what do you want to be known for
what do you want to be known for now I know that legacy is a funny thing right
we all want to leave families children the grandchildren and so on for sure I
totally get that but I'm talking I'm not talking everybody here I'm talking to
you you're here with me now you're either here with me live you're here on
the recording and and I'm guessing that if you're still listening to me you have
aspirations from a career standpoint that you want to leave something behind
you want to be known for something you want to have that positive impact on the
world what is it that you want to be known for so I want you to think about
that so for me as a consultant I didn't want to be known as somebody who went in
and helped companies and put in large-scale technology systems that they
then helped generate money save money optimize their processes or whatever it
did and then a few years later they tore it down they built something else
because technology evolved that wasn't the legacy I wanted to leave behind
that's the wonderful job for some people just wasn't what I wanted to leave
behind so I would rather touch all your souls
help you even even this much some of you I help this much so to me it was about
reaching and helping the people and and just and really that that's the legacy I
wanted to leave that's why I've worked very hard to do this to do this so so I
just I want you to keep those five things in mind Adam as we wrap this up
or at least the teaching portion so the fruit and let's say that these are as
kind of a dual nature to this it's a little bit forewarning and it's a little
bit encouragement so these these these go hand in hand and and that kind of
message should be with you your entire life the first thing is um you know your
impact I mean the impact that you are gonna have with your gift if you
manifest it in to the proper level is going to be huge I mean you are going to
have a big big impact but what comes along with big big impacts you don't get
any of those big big size rewards for free you're always gonna have huge
hurdles you're going to have big challenges you are gonna have failures
you're gonna have failures and those failures should be something that you
embrace as part of the process trust me when I tell you that there is a lot of
invisible work that goes into this and you might be surprised at it but I think
you will really be surprised if you looked over my shoulder to see how big I
fail actually you probably would be even more surprised not to see how big the
crashes are but the frequency in which it happens but that's just part of the
journey that always helps me get better it helps me teach you better it connects
me to you better and you have to embrace those kind of things okay it's the first
part second thing is I'm a I'm a big Steve Harvey fan I love the guy I think
he's smart I think he works hard I think he's very funny
and that combination to me makes him very you know easy to listen to fun to
watch I just got one of his books I can't wait to read it and he said night
I don't think that he was the originator of this but
he was the first person that I heard say this so I'm gonna give him credit he
said that your gift is the thing you do the best with the least amount of effort
your gift is the thing you do best with the least amount of effort in that
statement by itself I agree with I agree with but but if you want to offer up
your gift to this world in its biggest form if you want to manifest your gift
to the level in which it deserves to be manifested the least amount of effort
isn't going to get you there it isn't it isn't it's gonna take a lot more it's
gonna take a lot more so I don't want you to look for the least amount of
effort I don't want you to ask yourself what's the least I can do you're gonna
need to ask yourself and here's kind of the challenge for you what is the most I
can endure what is the most I can endure that's gonna be part of the success
formula it's gonna be part of manifesting your gift what is the most I
can endure I mean this world needs more of you not less there are people that
are out there that need you to do what you take to do that's the part of you
you need to give them that's the part of you I would love to see and that's the
part of you the world wants that's the part of you the world wants so I hope
that serves you I hope that gave you some kind of context about how I look at
finding my gift and then and then nurturing it right but but first thing
first I hope that helps you find it and I hope you enjoyed that
you