Follow Your TalentFollow your talent. Sounds like obvious advice doesn’t it? It is and it isn’t. I mean following your talent is so obvious that people overlook what it really means. What it means is relentlessly expanding and developing certain skill-sets to the point that you become outstanding and unique in that particular area. What separates truly great achievers and leaders in the world from those that dabble through life as mediocre? Well a lot of things actually, but there is one pattern that emerges that seems to be a major defining factor of extraordinary people. That pattern is that they possess a skill or idea that is so far ahead of the average that no one else even comes close. Bruce Lee is considered unsurpassed in martial arts ability, Richard Branson is one of the most creative business people of all time, Nelson Mandela became a leader of epic proportions against all odds. What makes this happen? It’s because they each possess a certain skill/talent that is beyond the realm of the general population. For Bruce Lee it is martial arts, for Richard Branson it is business and creativity as well as an extraordinary ability to promote an idea from conception and for Mandela it is his outstanding communication skills and ability to share a wild vision and influence others to pursue it with him. Every person at some time in their life pursues a particular talent. As a kid you might have been obsessed with being world-class at your chosen sport or whatever the case may be. But then, other interests captured your attention. Imagine if at some point in your life you had a skill that you relentlessly pursued continuously without distraction. Where would your life be right now if you had done that? This is the situation the outstanding leaders of the world find themselves in. They are simply so much ahead of everyone else in their own unique skill-set because they stuck at it. The key to real success and world class accomplishment is not trying to do everything at once, it is to follow your talent and become the best at what you do. What if you had a particular skill or idea that you expanded on and pursued with absolute persistence? Lets say for example that you have a seemingly in-built talent for noticing patterns in human behaviour. You might be able to read people really well and be able to help them break cycles they have been unsuccessful at eliminating for a long time. Sure that’s a good skill to possess but at the undeveloped level it might as well be a good party trick. If you follow your talent and produce almost supernaturally precise results you then become a world leader in your chosen skill-set. This is a pretty simple concept and one that I struggled to get for a long time. I wanted to be good at everything and as a result I was “good” at many things. However I never possessed world-class talent. It wasn’t until I really got it that I started developing certain skills almost obsessively. I started developing my skills to make distinctions about human potential and then come up with precise strategies for actualising the outcomes I believed people were capable of. The result has been the development of an industry that really didn’t even exist before. When I say the industry I am involved in didn’t exist I mean it took on a whole new structure. There were already life coaches, motivational speakers and athletic coaches, but there weren’t people who dealt with human potential from a broader perspective dealing with the physical, mental and material potential of people. I pursued a skill for accomplishing such an end. Follow your talent and you become a magician of the material world. What does that mean? It means that you have the ability to harness the power of complete focus. When you focus on something with every piece of your attention it generally becomes all-consuming. What you focus on becomes your reality, your ultimate external experience of the world. Focus can be directed either positively or negatively. If you focus on why you’re always in debt then, whether you want to or not, you remain in debt. If you focus on being financially abundant then eventually your brain seeks out solutions and creates financial abundance. You don’t always get what you want, but you always get what you expect. This focus relates to following your talent. You have an enormous power to influence your external and material world, so it stands to reason that you also have the power to influence your internal one. By following your talent you unleash a power that very few ever realise. As I said, an obvious piece of advice but a powerful one. Follow your talent, relentlessly develop, fine-tune, refine and apply a particular skill-set and you are ahead of 99 percent of the population. What’s the difference between your local GP and a world-class brain surgeon pioneering a procedure that can cure a previously incurable disease? The difference is a finely tuned, extraordinary talent that is pursued relentlessly. So what’s your talent? What is it that you want to make an impact for? Are you willing to pursue it obsessively?
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