Your success isn\u2019t found in your similarity to others, but in your difference. Instead of comparing yourself with somebody else and competing with them, try to discover your point of God-given difference, for that\u2019s where you will excel. Singer Pearl Bailey said, \u2018There are two kinds of talent, man-made and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.\u2019 <\/p>\n
Paul writes, \u2018God has\u2026 given each of us different gifts.\u2019<\/i> (Romans\u00a012:6\u00a0CEV) Would you rather fight to develop skills where you have a small natural gift, or run with the talent God has given you to find out where it takes you? Dreams don\u2019t come true because you do something well every once in a while. They\u2019re fulfilled because you perform with excellence day after day. And that happens only if you work within an area of strength. You can\u2019t be like the high school home-run hitter who received an invitation to spring training from a major league baseball team. After the first week, he emailed home to say, \u2018Leading all batters. These pitchers aren\u2019t so tough.\u2019 The second week he boasted, \u2018Hitting .500. Looks like I\u2019ll be starting in the infield.\u2019 The third week he wrote, \u2018They\u2019re starting to throw curveballs today. Will be home tomorrow.\u2019 <\/p>\n
You can\u2019t achieve success without consistency, and you can\u2019t achieve consistency working outside your God-given strengths. It will take all the talent you have to achieve your God-given dream. Following that talent will give you the best chance to be consistently good at what you do. So the word for today is\u2014build on your strengths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Your success isn\u2019t found in your similarity to others, but in your difference. Instead of comparing yourself with somebody else and competing with them, try to discover your point of God-given difference, for that\u2019s where you will excel. Singer Pearl Bailey said, \u2018There are two kinds of talent, man-made and God-given talent. With man-made talent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}