Time To Use Your Gifts
You have a unique set of gifts that are meant to bring you joy and serve the world! Today we want to share how you can uncover those gifts and use them to their fullest potential.
So often we hear quite a few excuses as to why our listeners aren’t using their gifts. Do any of these relate to you?
#1. What if I don’t feel like using my gifts (I’m scared, uninspired or unmotivated)?
#2. What if I don’t know what my gifts are?
#3. I’d love to use them, but I don’t have enough time. (Good news… you actually do have enough time! Check out our time management series to help you make plenty of time for what you love.)
#4. I’m feeling overwhelmed and don’t know where to start or how to use my gifts in the most effective way.
Scroll down to find our favorite tips for uncovering your gifts and using them more often!
How To Uncover Your Gifts
If you’re not sure what your unique gifts are you can start brainstorming. Now’s a good time ask yourself a few questions and start gathering information about who you really are.
Use these 3 journal prompts from our Find Your Purpose Course to help you uncover your unique gifts:
What’s one of your main roles in your life right now? What’s your absolute favorite thing about that role?
What do you like best about yourself?
What theme keeps popping up in your life no matter what you do?
Dig a little deeper! You may have uncovered some of your gifts on the surface, but what can you find if you dig a little deeper?
Using the gifts you have uncovered. The more you start using your unique gifts, you’ll discover that they can lead you to the other ones that you would have never thought of.
Get to know your unique personality. Take a personality test like the Myers Briggs or learn more about the Enneagram and which type you are. Taking the time to get to know our own unique personalities and motivations has been incredibly helpful! Now we know the best ways for us to share our gifts with others.
How To USE Your Gifts More Often
The keyword here is USE. We didn’t say research for hours or do little tasks that feel productive but aren’t. We want to make sure that you’re actually using the unique and beautiful gifts that you have.
Sometimes we get overwhelmed. Sometimes we don’t want to share something until it’s perfect. Other times we lack the confidence to put something out there because we’re still learning.
Try practicing these 3 things to help you use your gifts more often:
#1. Take imperfect action
Just start and go from there. Think, “Done is better than perfect.”
#2. Develop and strengthen your own confidence
Check out our mini course: Developing True Confidence that has helped many women gain the confidence they need to use their gifts more often with less fear, doubt or comparison.
#3. Break it down
Simplify and break your to-do’s into VERY small action steps. When you break things down into very tiny and doable steps you realize using your gifts isn’t as scary or overwhelming as you thought.
What to do when you don’t feel like using your gifts
Instead of ignoring how you feel, take note of that emotion. Address it and then decide to move forward with these steps:
Notice it
Name it
Tend to it
You can check out our favorite article: How To Feel Your Feelings that goes over this process in detail.
How to Enjoy Using Your Gifts
Here are a few ways that have helped us not only use our gifts, but truly enjoy using them!
Look for ways your gifts align with your overall purpose.
Use your gifts in ways that speak to you.
Ex. If one of your gifts is teaching, ask yourself —How do you like to teach? Who do you like to teach? What ways excite you when you teach?
Do things differently
Just because you see others around you using your same gift in a certain way doesn’t mean you have to do it that way. There is so much beauty in using your gifts completely different than others!
See if doing something in a different way than you have in the past sparks some excitement, enjoyment or new ideas.
Let go of things that no longer serve you.
Now’s the time to get rid of the fluff or the tasks that you thought you should do, but don’t really enjoy. See if there’s a way to delegate or just let go of it completely.
We hope this has inspired you to start using your gifts more often! We want to remind you that YOU really do have a unique set of gifts that are meant to bring you joy and serve the world! We hope you can uncover those gifts and use them to their fullest potential. You got this!
Laura + Kristin
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Click below or on apple podcasts & choose episode 161
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Episode #161 Time To Use Your Gifts
You have a unique set of gifts that are meant to bring you joy and serve the world! Today we’re chatting about how you can uncover those gifts and use them to their fullest potential.
Listen in to learn:
What to do if you’re not sure what your gifts are
How to actually use your gifts more regularly
Why you should never wait to start the project you dream about starting
How your gifts will be revealed along the way -- with ACTION
Why we are sometimes afraid to take action on our gifts
How to stop comparing your gifts to others
