Refine Your Talent and Do Something Productive For Yourself and Others

Are you one of those multi-talented individuals who struggle with deciding which talent to refine? You may be torn between two or three. This list for refining your talent may be helpful. Your inner struggle can be summarized in the word 'indecision' and it may be time to snap out of it and feel better about yourself by expressing your inherent talents.

Refine your talent and do something productive for yourself and others:

1. Make a list of your two or three most cherished talents. Keep your list short, if the real struggle is between two or three instead of eight, it will be easier to refine. You may even be able to combine two talents that may complement each other. For example: a musician and a writer, or an artist and a public speaker.

2. Think in detail which of those talents brings you the most inspiration. This one is easy to identify because when you are inspired you totally lose track of time. There is no such thing as time constraints when you are in the moment of fulfillment through inspiration.

3. Select one or two from your list. Remember, this doesn't mean that you will be stuck with the one or two; you are just trying them on for size. Try each one on for about twenty minutes by just writing what you would do to refine this talent.

4. Visualize yourself refining that talent. If you feel that you're missing out on something or that something is missing, try to clarify the missing component. Next visualize yourself with the other talent and go on down the list.

5. Journal your feelings and try to repeat this same exercise for a about a week. Feelings change and if it's an impulse it will seek immediate fulfillment, but if it's a real inspirational feeling, that inspiration will come up each time you think of yourself expressing that particular talent.

The bottom line is to ask yourself; which of those inherent talents will bring the most fulfillment to you and to others? Refining your multi-talented gifts can be a challenge. There are some of us that truly are multi-talented and the dilemma is not how far we want to go with it, but rather which ones would bring the most fulfillment to us and to others.

Krystalina Soash is a generalist writer and public speaker with one published work, "Writing Tips for Student Projects and New Freelance Writers" and a second work in production: "Your Positive Potential: Action Steps for Self-Empowerment" to be released October 2010.