Your talents and contributions are only important if you make them important!

 

I was going to write a blog posting about the difference between experience and expertise. Because I am a fan of alliteration, and experience and expertise both begin with the same letter, this phrase was mentioned in our morning team meeting and immediately caught my attention. 

By Joy Mizzoni
Team Support Specialist
ActionCOACH Spokane

But as the afternoon clouds move in, I don’t feel nearly excited about either experience or expertise or some witty way in which I was going to pair up the two for your benefit. 

Instead, I am at a loss for a topic that I find inspiring today. It’s truly a gray Monday afternoon and really a nap sounds like an ideal option. 

Isn’t that the problem with motivational blogs? They are all sunshine and roses but they never really address the crapiness of it all. Tell me how to handle the mundane.  The routine. The ordinary. 

That’s what throws me for a loop.  

How do you focus your time and energy on your goals and dreams even while you are doing the grunt work?

I don’t know. I haven’t figured it out yet. 

I feel like the first step is to do something related to your strengths. For example, writing a blog post. Although my day is filled to the brim with endless open-items, projects, errands, deadlines, etc., I still must find time, even a moment, to do something productive that reinvigorates me. 

It would be really easy to say that I am too busy to write a blog post. It would be really easy to convince myself that I am too moody, tired, grumpy, annoyed, and generally disgruntled by the lack of sunshine today and  that there is no way I have the mental focus to write. 

The harder thing to do was to sit down and write something. Anything. This blog site is up to 527 hits! That’s amazing!  

Unfortunately I know the moment I make an excuse as to why this blog should not be a priority, it’s all downhill from there. 

How many goals, dreams, aspirations, fanciful whims have you let rot beneath a piles of suffocating excuses destroying their importance? 

Your talents and contributions are only important if you make them important. 

Otherwise to everyone else, they are just ordinary.