First Dimension of Capability: Talents

Covey, in The Speed of Trust. The One Thing That Changes Everything (New York: Free Press, 2006), p. 94, says that "Talents are our natural gifts and strengths."

We need to assess our talents. They are our personal assets. They were given to us by our parents. They are the assets that were given to us at birth.

They're the savings accounts our fathers gave us when we graduated from college containing the $10 he put in them every week. If we aren't sure what our talents are, we need to ask people who know us.

We need to build on them. The are our head start we got in life. We got them without doing anything to deserve them.

We shouldn't confine our personal development to them, though, because we may have talents we don't know we have. So we should constantly put ourselves in new situations so that they can manifest themselves.

My goal here is to bring out more skilled entrepreneurs. How am I doing?

Entrepreneurship is the life's blood of all my professional activities. It makes them go. It informs my connection strategy. For my ideas on connection strategy, go to my new blog www.Connecting.blogspot.com.

It makes Your Stop for Real Estate, my real estate referral business, go. See www.yourstopforrealestate.blogspot.com.

It powers my writing. Go to www.kearneymusicschoolmurders.blogspot.com for my ideas on writing and where you can read my mystery for free, download it for free or buy it from Amazon.com more cheaply than you can print it.

It fuels my publishing enterprise, By and for Writersgo. See www.byandforwriters.blogspot.com where you can get a poem or a short story published.