Identify your skills and gifts

Each of us carries within us certain qualities and attributes that contribute through our life journey. Here are 5 ways you can identify gifts and build on them.

It may help to journal about or discuss with your Assessor or mentor the way to discover your unique gift. Identify your skills and talents and a key part of your future success in life and and career

5 Ways To Identify your unique gift:

1. How did you love to spend your time as a child? What did you enjoy doing the most? How would you pass the days and what types of activities were exciting to you?

2. What are you passionate about as an adult? What lights you up and gets you totally motivated? What kinds of things do you enjoy doing so much that you lose track of time?

3. What is important to you about life? When you think about the different areas of life (like health, career, family, relationship, personal development, spirituality/religion, recreation), make a list of all the things that are important to you in each of these categories. This will give you a list of your values broken down by area. Combined, they represent your life values—what is important to you about life in general. Knowing your values helps direct you towards your passion and purpose.

4. Take the 16 personalities test (link below) this personality test this can help you learn more about yourself and better understand both your strengths and weakness. While all personality tests are different, learning that you might be high in a specific trait can help you gain greater insight into your behavioural patterns. https://www.16personalities.com/

5. Ask your family, friends, and co-workers. Think of the five people you spend the most time with and identify one or two things that those people are gifted at. You should be able to come up with at least one talent or gift each person has or does that is unique to them. Likewise, the people who know you well or whom you spend the most time with will easily be able to share with you the qualities they see as being your strengths. So just ask around.

5 Ways to get back on track when you've lost your way.

We all have seasons in life in which we lose our way and don't feel that we can handle the storm we are in, or the external circumstances we encounter. It can seem like other people have got it all together, and that your the only one enduring challenges and issues.

It is important to remember, You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control how you respond.

Wisdom of life

The definition of wisdom is quality of having experience, knowledge, and good judgement; the quality of being wise

Listening to words of wisdom from a elderly person may not be the place you consider to start with life's lesson and experience however, a long life enables more learning, failure and acquiring understanding of what is really important in life.