Unique Ability: Creating the Life You Want
Catherine Nomura, Julia Waller, Shannon Waller
Language: English
Pages: 173
ISBN: 1896635628
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
You have inside you an incredible force called Unique Ability. It's a combination of your personal talents, passions, and skills. You've always had this ability, but you may never have stopped to clearly identify it. Few people do. When you begin to figure out this important foundation of who you are, you'll understand what you do best in life, what you love doing most, and what makes the most difference for the most people. You'll also be able to focus on doing more of what works in your life and stay away from what doesn't work. This book offers a simple and powerful approach to creating a life that works, a life that you love, because it comes from who you truly are and what you're all about. This book contains a complete process that will help you identify your Unique Ability, then immediately put it to work in your life.
asyour understanding of your Unique Ability grows. But realize that even the earliest draft of your sen tence will belight years away from what most people have towork with: People generally don't think about themselves as unique, let alone try to define their uniqueness. As you test your statement out in the world, you'll find yourself CHAPTER 2 honing it, getting clearer and clearer about the nature ofyour Unique Ability and how to articulate it. Now it's time to create your statement. My
this book, Ifinally pinned down my Unique Ability: "Describing real and imaginary details so they come to life andpeople experience a moment of wonder." Now Isee that everything else ledmeto this, trained mefor it, in a way I could never have consciously devised. Whether it's the guiding hand offate ormyown persistence, the payoff isjustas great. But now that Iknow why I've been doing all this and what it's in service of life has become a lot clearer. I'll always have this statement, like a
Want Chapter 4: Creating The Life You Want 0 urdeepestfear isnot that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear isthat we arepowerful beyond measure It isourlight, not ourdark//ess that most frightens us. We ask ourselves. 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented andfabulous?' Actually, who areyou //otto be? You are a child ofGod. Yourplaying small doesn'/ serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won 'tfeel insecure aroundyou. We are born to make
if they can't be avoided. As he has more experiences of using his Unique Ability, he can add to both lists. Agreat habit to develop is to debrief at the end of any major project or undertaking about what worked and what didn't work, and see if there is any new learning that adds to or clarifies what your enabling or disenabling factors are. The more clarity you have about these factors, the more quickly you'll be able to realistically predict success or failure and prevent frustration in any new
enthusiasm. Ifyou're trying to attract people to work with you, figure out what result you're trying to achieve and articulate itclearly, with passion. What are you building? What are you creating? Why are you doing what you're doing? At The Strategic Coach, we use a tool called The R-Factor Question"' to elicit this information. It goes like this: "If we were meeting here three years from today, looking back to today, what has to have happened for you to feel happy with your progress?" There