PMC Thought #1: Talents vs. Skills

Our "first post" is to redirect visitors to our "welcome" page.  Hmmmm.. not quite appealing for a first impression.  Sorry about that.

So to differentiate our first post with our "official" first post, let us call this as "PMC Thought #1."  From here onwards, we will be calling our posts as "PMC Thoughts."  Let us see how many we can have.  I hope to see PMC Thought # 1,000 or even more.

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Going back to our main topic, let us talk about talent and skills.

You may be asking, "Why are we going to talk about talents and skills if this site is about creating Pinoy Millionaires?"

Because we can go in any area of our lives only as far as our talents and our skills can take us. I repeat, we can go in any area of our lives only as far as our talents and skills can take us.  

"Roy, aren't talent and skill just one and the same?"

Good question.

Talent is natural ability.  Skill is ability that has been acquired.

"Okay, but what's the connection between talent and skill and being a millionaire?  Isn't this Pinoy Millionaire Circle?"

Simple.  These [talents and skills] are your tickets to success, whether we are referring to finances or to any other areas of our lives.  Much more to becoming millionaires.

Let me share with you what motivational speaker Francis J. Kong said about talent and skill as featured in the September-October 2010 issue of the Money Sense magazine.

"...not everybody shares the same equal amount of talent.  By the way, talent is God-given, skills are self acquired.  So, if you are given a certain talent, if you don't develop it, hanggang dun ka nalang.  It's up to you to elevate it.  To excel, you have to hone it, develop it, research on it, study."

Why am I saying this?  Because we believe that we can succeed by following our talents and doing things we love.  And it normally follows that what we love are the areas where we are talented.  We become "skilled" after we honed our talents on the things we love.

Here at PMC we want to make things as simple as possible.  So to make that previous statement more simple, it goes like this:

Talent => Passion/Love => Skill

To succeed, we just add Faith, Dedication, Hard work, and Attitude.  

You have been directed in this site most probably because you are looking for ways to becoming a Pinoy Millionaire. And if indeed you are, then you might have heard that in order for a person to succeed, one must pursue what he loves and where his core gift lies.  But how will you know your core gift?  Although there are lots of sources where you can find help to identify your core gift, let PMC share with you these simple steps: 

1. Ask yourself what areas in life you're good at.  In what area do people praise you?  Do people come to you for a certain area in their lives because they know you can provide them the best solution?  
2. What are the things you could do with enthusiasm, passion and energy?
3. In what area are you willing to work without being paid?  
4. If you think you're calling is into something, try it.  Try and try until you find out where you are great at.  You can't just try one thing that interests you and when you fail you will say that your core gift does not lie in there.  Remind yourself that finding your core gift is a process and it doesn't end in one failure or one successful attempt.   

As we have mentioned a while ago, each one of us is given a talent different from one another.  For the mean time, let us move away from our hopes that everyone could be millionaires.  For the meantime also, let us focus on the differences of our talents.  Some may be talented in connecting with people  Some may be talented in motivating others.  We may not all be millionaires in the end, but by sharing our knowledge, our talents and skills, one day, we may be able to raise real-life millionaires from here through our collective efforts.

Not everyone can be an architect, someone has to dig the ground and cut the stones.  Right now, we are doing  just that - laying the foundation for soon to be millionaires.  

Before we end this article, let us remind each of us the reason why we are committed to become millionaires.  “Set a goal to become a millionaire not for the goal of being a millionaire but for what it requires of you to achieve it.” - Jim Rohn

We don't expect that you will find everything in this post as gem, but we do hope that you've learned something.  Being a PMCer is all about that - Sharing and Dreaming and Achieving Together.  Join Us.  Invite more friends and let's share for the common good of everyone.  

This is OUR site so please feel free to share and to contribute.  Please, hit the comment box if you have something to say.  If you want your thoughts be posted here, email it at livdgoodlyf@gmail.com.  

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