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Focus on your Unique Talents
Lifebushido seeks to help people spend more time using their unique talents and abilities. If you focus your energy on what you love to do and what you do best anything is possible.
 * The more time you spend on your unique ability, the more you will achieve.
 * Your unique talent is something you are passionate about doing.
 * You want to do it as much as possible.
 * Your unique ability is energizing for you and those around you.
 * You keep getting better at it.
 * Other people notice and value your unique talents.
 * Your unique ability comes naturally and is easy, fun, energizing, and motivating.

Lifebushido's Vision…
What is your unique talent? The more time you spend on your unique talent, the more you will achieve. Unique talent is something you are passionate about doing and want to do as much as possible. Your unique talent is energizing for you and you keep getting better at it. It is something that is easy, fun, and motivating for you to do. If you focus all of your energy on what you love to do and what you do best, anything is possible.

**Focus on Unique Talents Paragraph **

 * Draft a 100 word max paragraph describing your Unique Talents.
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 * Review the resources and Steve's draft of his Unique Talents below for ideas.

**Focus on Unique Talents Document **

 * Send your Unique Talent paragraph to your other Triangle Members for feedback and insight.
 * Spend 1 hour to do the Action Step - Discover Your Unique Talent. This will include the following:
 * Define unique talent.
 * Encourages you to ask friends/family/co-workers for feedback on your unique talent.
 * Write down your first definition and thoughts on your unique talent.

**<span style="color: #003366; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Action Step - Discover Your Unique Talent **

 * <span style="color: #003366; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Create a document with answers to the following. It will probably be 1-3 pages.
 * <span style="color: #003366; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Write down draft of the your Unique Talent based on talents and passion
 * <span style="color: #003366; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What are the things you like to do best?
 * <span style="color: #003366; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What are your 5-10 best habits?
 * <span style="color: #003366; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Choose 3-10 friends/family/co-workers and have the entrepreneurial spirit to send them an email to ask for their input. Incorporate their input in your summary.
 * <span style="color: #003366; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Question for friends to email - feel free to point them to this wiki page to share background info.
 * What do you see as my Unique Talent? I am currently trying to figure this out for myself. This concept is based on the idea that everyone possesses a combination of talents, interests, and capabilities unique to that individual. I would really appreciate it if you would help me identify my own unique talent by considering the following question and sending me back an answer.
 * What do you see as my Unique Talent? My Unique Talent includes my talents and abilities, characteristics that describe me, what I’m good at, how I do things, what you can count on me for, and any other distinguishing features you see about who I am. I would be grateful if you could respond within a few days if you are interested in helping me. Thanks for your support. I look forward to hearing from you.
 * <span style="color: #003366; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">At end of document reflect on this exercise and how it made you feel and lessons learned.
 * <span style="color: #003366; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Name document: TriangleName - Unique Talent - YOURNAME version date and send to Triangle Leader and Scribe.

<span style="color: #003366; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Steve Kantor’s Unique Talent - Draft
<span style="color: #003366; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">My unique ability is learning and thinking to inspire others with creative ideas to share knowledge and make people happier.

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 * <span style="color: #003366; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Unique Abilities – Talent + Passion
 * Creativity: I combine intersections of ideas for a big vision.
 * Reading: I organize and summarize ideas from books, magazines, and people.
 * Inspire: I strive to encourage and motivate people.
 * Bushido: I think out of the box and boldly try something new.
 * Passion: I enjoy passionate people with goal focus and desire to contribute.
 * Energize: I am energized by focus, an audience, a big vision, and time for strategy.
 * <span style="color: #003366; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Unique Ability Activity Inventory
 * Read quickly and broadly to learn new ideas.
 * Write and organize summaries of ideas for life and business.
 * Create new ideas to solve problems or expand visions of possibilities.
 * Ask people questions to derive key lessons to share with others.
 * Inspire people through email and meetings to try new things and take risks.
 * Encourage people to set goals and improve their lives.
 * Think of bold future visions out of the normal box of possibilities.
 * Spend strategy time alone to think and plan.
 * <span style="color: #003366; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ten Best Habits - What are your best habits that you do automatically to produce your best results?
 * I always am honest with myself and others.
 * I always try to think of everyone’s perspective and background.
 * I always try to find and read information to help solve problems.
 * I always try to find the positive and optimistic approach to a situation.
 * I always try to be hard to provoke and easy to pacify.
 * I always try to think creatively to challenge others to think out of the box.
 * I always try to break down a problem to the list of detailed parts.
 * I always try to think of the big picture.
 * I always try to motivate people to do something new and exciting.
 * I always try new things to see what will work for me.

**<span style="color: #003366; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Unique Ability Growth Strategies **

 * <span style="color: #003366; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Give yourself permission to spend time using your Unique Ability.
 * <span style="color: #003366; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Talk to as many people as possible about it. Get the word out.
 * <span style="color: #003366; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Seek new opportunities and audiences. Ask others for support, suggestions, and ideas.
 * <span style="color: #003366; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Look for the resources you need to grow your Unique Ability.
 * <span style="color: #003366; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Put structures in your life that supports the development of your Unique Ability.
 * <span style="color: #003366; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Make time for thinking, learning, and personal awareness.

**<span style="color: #003366; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Activity Inventory **

 * <span style="color: #003366; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Make a list of the things you do in the course of your routine in life.
 * <span style="color: #003366; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Categorize each of them as Unique, Excellent, Competent, or Incompetent.
 * <span style="color: #003366; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Unique creates more energy that they use up.
 * <span style="color: #003366; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Excellent activities do not have a real passion for activity which is difference from Unique.
 * <span style="color: #003366; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Competent activities you may feel competition and worry about falling behind, failing or becoming obsolete.
 * <span style="color: #003366; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Incompetent activities make you feel frustrated, stressed, failing, conflicted.
 * <span style="color: #003366; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Categorize your activities and reorganize by activity.
 * <span style="color: #003366; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How can you do less of your incompetent or competent activities?

**<span style="color: #003366; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Create an improvement plan. **

 * <span style="color: #003366; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Delegation: stop doing it, find someone else to do it, trade with someone, use technology, hire someone, give up guilt.
 * <span style="color: #003366; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As you sculpt your life and remove each layer of non-unique ability activity, you will have powerful motivation to find ways to focus even more on what you love.

**<span style="color: #003366; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Fundamental Relationship **

 * <span style="color: #003366; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">You create value for others with your Unique Ability through distribution channels and receive rewards.
 * <span style="color: #003366; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">There are probably many more distribution channels which you can create.
 * <span style="color: #003366; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The more you use your Unique Ability the more the world supports and funds its ongoing development.
 * <span style="color: #003366; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How do I use my Unique Ability to create value?
 * <span style="color: #003366; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Who does it create value for now? How can I reach more people?
 * <span style="color: #003366; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What distribution channels have I developed? What rewards do I currently receive?

**<span style="color: #003366; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ten Best Habits **

 * <span style="color: #003366; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What are your best habits that you do automatically to produce your best results?

** Additional Resources **

 * Click here for links to other resources for learning about Unique Talents.
 * Unique Talent Ebook - Contributions from Ishidos

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