You can be talented and still struggle financially and in other areas of life. Talent is not enough to take you from where you are to where you what to be. You need much more than talent. Talent is in raw form – your innate abilities, gifts you were born with. It is like raw materials. You can have petroleum but fail to refine it and process other derivatives and still remain poor because you have to import the finished product. You can produce cocoa but fail to process it into chocolate, which puts you in a position of weakness, selling for peanuts.
To add value to your talent, you have to develop skills in the area of your talent. You need focus and commitment to paying the price in being the best that you can be and contributing at a level that will command high income. The best in every field make the most money. When you stay at the average level, you get average results.
Being a talented goalkeeper does not make you world-class. At best you will become a local champion. Talent is not enough to separate you from mediocre. You have to pay the price to gain the skills that will take you to the next level. You need to keep growing and getting better and better.
While holding onto your day job, you need to spend your spare time developing your talent and becoming more skillful so that you can launch successfully. After discovering your talents, you have to focus on developing your talent through practice and personal development. You have to add value to what has been given to you.
The world is full of talented people heading nowhere. Many show a flash of brilliance and fizzle out like a candle in the wind. You need to take your gift and run with it. The richest countries in the world today did not acquire their wealth by selling their raw materials. It is through adding value to what they have.
Do not wait until you have a lot of money before you start doing what it is you really want to do. Start with what you have now. As you start moving, you will figure out how to go further.
