Talent is Never Enough

Discover the Choices That Will Take You Beyond Your Talent

by John Maxwell

If talent alone is enough, then why do you and I know highly talented people who are not highly successful?

–John Maxwell

The fact is that as long as there are people in the world, there will always be a large pool of raw talent available. If you genuinely aspire to stand out from the crowd, then there are thirteen choices you need to make in order to maximize your own personal talents:

1. Belief: Belief lifts your talent
2. Passion: Passion energizes your talent
3. Initiative: Initiative activates your talent
4. Focus: Focus directs your talent
5. Preparation: Preparation positions your talent
6. Practice: Practice enhances your talent
7. Perseverance: Perseverance sustains your talent
8. Courage: Courage tests your talent
9. Teachability: Teachability expands your talent
10. Character: Character deepens your talent
11. Relationships: Relationships influence your talent
12. Responsibility: Responsibility strengthens your talent
13. Teamwork: Teamwork multiplies your talent

Life is a matter of choices, and every choice you make makes you. What will you do for a career? Who will you marry? How much education will you get? What will you do with today? But one of the most important choices you will make is ‘who will you become!’ Life is not merely a matteer of holding and playing a good hand as you would hope to do in a card game. What you start with isn’t up to you. Talent is God-given. Life is playing the hand you have been dealt well. That is determined by your choices. Talent plus right choices equals a talent-plus person. The talent-plus people are the ones who maximize their talent, reach their potential, and fulfill their destiny. I hope you will steer yourself in the right direction and make right choices that empower you to become a talent-plus person, build upon the foundation of your abilities, and live your life to its fullest potential.

–John Maxwell

Talent is Never Enough