In 2011, after I discovered that I could live my
dream life and put my
footprints on the sand of history by working with
my talents, I set
out on a lonely path to success. After 3years, I
got confused,
frustrated and disorganized because despite
knowing what I had, I
still wasn't moving. I needed to move forward, I
needed to storm my
world. As I sat down in 2014 to ponder on it,
questions that helped
shaped my career and gave me motion began to
flow through my mind.
These questions helped me and I strongly believe
that they can help you too.


1. What Am I Doing?
A clear understanding of this question will put
you on the right path
to success. This question will bring you back to
reality.
Not knowing what you're doing can make you
leave your own path and
walk in other people's paths. It's important to
always ask ourselves
this question regularly. What am I doing? Am I
doing what am supposed
to be doing?


2. Why Am I Doing This?
Why are you doing what you're doing? Why are
you working with your
talents when you should be working in the bank,
or hospital with your
degree? The why, is the motive behind a task
and the motive is very
important in shaping one's career. Is it because
you think you can do
it better? or is it because that's what's in vogue?
or is it because
of the lack of 'white collar jobs? or is it because
you want to use
that talent of yours to impact lives? A truthful
answer to this
question will help point you to the right path.


3. Where am I going with this?
This question helped me, it can help you too.
Every talentpreneur
should have an understanding of where their
talents will lead them to.
Will working with your talents lead you to the
palace or the prison.
Will it help you achieve your dreams and
ambitions in life. What do
you intend to achieve from it? It's important we
ask ourselves this
silly but important question because what's the
use of taking on a
path that leads to nowhere.


4. Who am I doing this for?
It's important for every talentpreneur to know
their target audience.
Which set of people can you easily relate with?
Can you easily relate
with the youths, females, males, old, young,
rich, poor,
educated, uneducated, sick, broken hearted,
unemployed etc. We need
to also know our location, our territory. We can
also chose our target
audience and work towards taking our talents to
them.


5. What will I gain from this?
It's wisdom to engage in a profitable venture. In
fact, engaging in
an unprofitable venture can be regarded as
foolishness. Will it bring
you peace of mind, happiness, joy, rest, riches,
honour, and above
all, will it make you a fulfilled man or woman?


6. What will I lose for not doing this?
I've sometimes imagined not doing what I'm
doing, and the picture
isn't pleasant. Most people are doing what they
are not gifted at and
that's the cause of the lackadaisical attitudes of
some employees.


7. How can I improve on this?
Every talent needs proper development and
refinement. And it's also
important for talentpreneurs to get the adequate
skills that will help
improve their talents and presentation to the
audience.
We're not the only person doing what we're
doing, so, we must always
look for ways to improve our talents and
presentation.


8. How can I make a living from this?
The proper use of just a talent has the potential
of turning someone
into a multi millionaire. In other words, every
talents can be
monetized. As a talent coach, I've discovered
that talent
monetization is regarded as the most difficult
aspects of
talentpreneurship, but it can be made easier if
only we'd seek how to.


9. How can I take this to my audience?
This is where talent promotion comes to play. In
Africa, lack of
finance has always been the major constraint to
effective talent
promotion, thus, the need for strategic talent
promotion and
marketing.


10. Who should I take along?
Every Moses needs a Aaron, every Abraham
needs a Lot and every Jesus
needs his twelve disciples. The person or people
you take along in the
pursuit of your dreams through your talents will
determine if you will
gain speed or lag behind. At the early stage of
your career, you may
have to go alone, but we must understand that
we can't do it all
alone thus the need to build a team that can
help us to achieve our
dreams and missions.
I'd love to know what you feel about this tips by
dropping a comment below.
There's love in sharing.

SUCCEED YOU MUST.

(c) Johnspeak Uwangue


@crazyman @1forall