Today let’s talk about owning your talents.
Have you ever felt like you can’t appreciate your talents the way you could for someone else?
I have experienced that a lot. I could tell you that David was a gifted speaker, or a talented athlete, but I couldn’t see the same thing about myself. I had learned to deny my talents at a very early age. Such as the time at age 14 when I published 5 poems, and my Dad verbally shamed the accomplishment, telling me I would never amount to anything. I learned it wasn’t safe to see my talents. I later had to reprogram those old ways of thinking. This gave me the gift of being able to see my true talents for what they were – not egotistically. But in a way that allowed me to utilize and steward my talents to benefit the world around me.
Have you ever struggled to acknowledge your talents?
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