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Jun 10

What's So Great About You?

Posted by Fiona Harrold | 6 Comments

Answer – Absolutely Heaps!

Your job is to see what’s so great about you and to bring it out. Then and only then will you be fully expressing your wonderful self, fulfilling your deepest potential and getting the acknowledgement and success you deserve. You need to spot your innate talents so you can make them work for you. For twenty years, I have been talent spotting – spotting the talents in my clients, ensuring they see them too – and that’s the beginning of growing real self-worth and self-appreciation. It makes it easier to get a pay rise or charge more for your services!

I was talking about this in the recent Bounce Back! teleseminar and here’s a shortened exercise from that session.

1/ What do others admire or envy you for?

2/ What comes easily to you?

3/ What’s the thread running through your life? What three qualities have you been displaying from the age of eight/earlier that are simply a part of the very fabric of your being?

Few people really ‘get’ how talented they are. You are more likely to assume everyone can do what you can do, or, you’re likely to downplay a talent and stop yourself pulling from turning it into what could be a valuable and profitable – service.

What do you think? What tips do you have for talent spotting – in yourself or others? What talents might you be underplaying – how could you offer them to others as a service?

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  • On 18 June 2010 at 4:41 pm Rosie said:

    Cannot believe anyone would envy me, or admire me…I do admire nice friendly people but I don’t think I really envy anyone or anything as I just get on with things and if I cannot have something I accept that

    So wish things did come easily although saying that we always seem to get our table at Costa’s cafe…..I do a cosmic order on it and it just happens..lol

    From 8 I have always believed in things outside our knowledge and understanding, still can put myself into a childs or teenagers mind and can be alone without feeling lonely…there you are my 3 things… :-)

  • On 21 June 2010 at 10:51 pm Fiona Young said:

    How do members get on to the ‘Bounces Back’ Tele seminars? I would like to but every time I click on the link in the comments page I get an ‘Sorry an error occured’ message and when I put my membership details in they are not accepted. Do I need to be a paying member to get this service?

    I love this site.

    Thank you so very Much Fiona.

  • On 22 June 2010 at 8:26 am Fiona said:

    Hi Fiona,
    the Bounce Back! teleseminar is half-way through and I don’t have plans for another one at the moment – BUT I’ll produce an audio version of the seminar in September.

    The Bounce Back! area on the Forum is only open to members of the teleseminar.

    Thanks for your feedback!

    xx Fiona

  • On 23 June 2010 at 2:28 pm Sarah Fraser said:

    Why is it that we give more internal air-time to the things we don’t like about ourselves than to the things we do? We really seem to take ourselves for granted sometimes! To counter this, I like to celebrate little milestones along the way towards a goal and I do this with my clients too. Rather than focusing only on the end goal, I encourage my clients to give themselves mini-rewards when they achieve smaller steps along the way. It helps them stay grounded in the present and realise that life can also be great now, today!

  • On 24 June 2010 at 8:13 pm Mary said:

    Like many, I have a much easier time seeing the good in others than I do in myself. My internal scripts are slowly being re-written, however, and I like the person I see in the mirror each morning. :-)

  • On 2 July 2010 at 10:55 am Claire Takacs said:

    I agree that we often don’t acknowledge our good qualities, instead focusing on what we think is ‘wrong’ with us. How many times have you complimented someone only to have them brush the compliment aside? Many years ago I allowed myself to wallow in low self-confidence – it wasn’t until I started to receive comments from people about how confident I was (well, that is how I presented to them!) that I chose to allow myself to BE confident. Some of my colleagues have now cheekily nicknamed me the Dominatrix :) )

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