Trait 14: Competence - Professional Development Key of the Week

This week we are reminded of the phenomenal success strategy to work smarter, not harder. Consider, if money wasn’t your motivation, what type of work would you do, what would you create? Find and follow that fire in your belly. It will lead you, with ease, down the road towards your passion and will present you with projects that will bring you prosperity. It will lead you away from the resistance that is present when you are working on the wrong things, or at the wrong time, or in the wrong place, or with the wrong people. Think about it… why would you force yourself to do things that you are not good at when there are people literally designed to thrive in that arena? You can’t crash and burn out if you are driving in your lane, working on your assignment.

Being competent is about being able to perform a task with complete confidence, precision and excellence due to you being in tune with your natural rhythms and reasons. Competency is a byproduct of you being on purpose, pursuing your passion. We like to think that we can teach or learn a competency, but the truth is, like happiness, true competence is an inside job. Competency is beyond a skill set, beyond proficiency, expertise, abilities, or aptitude. By being aligned with the genius in your genes and expressing your specific competencies, you operate in integrity as a default. With integrity you only sell products, goods, or services that you would buy and the universal reward for that is prosperity.

With Trait 14, the skill of Resourcefulness and Competence indicated in your Design Chart, you are a powerful, sought after team player because you are not designed to compromise who you are. Competency is the main ingredient of any successful business, department, or team. A competent team cannot contain individual members who have compromised themselves. You are able to contribute your uniqueness which adds value to whatever you are working on. You are the driving force that can implement a vision. If you are sold on it, you can rally the troops to get the vision off of the drawing board and into reality. It doesn't matter if you lead the pack or not, what's important is that you are respected as an individual who is a creative resource. Your individuality and independence is what attracted them to you when you got offered the job or the invitation to join the team. They are counting on you to add value to the environment with your specific passion and competencies. Your contagious energy benefits everyone and everything around you, when you are aligned you have the Midas touch.

Think of a profession or job that you deem undesirable or dangerous. Now think of how there are people who work in those capacities in absolute satisfaction, enjoying enriching and enchanting lives. This is their experience because they are tapped into their design, enjoying their endeavors to their energetic specifications and standards, not yours or anyone else’s in society. They are experiencing prosperity as a byproduct of their competencies. They are thriving, uncompromised, because they are not trying to live someone else’s life or do work that is not designed for/aligned with them.

The moment you make a compromise or settle, you begin to leak your fuel of favor attached to your inherent skills and others will gladly siphon it off and use your gifts for you with no benefit to you.

How do you know if you are compromised? Either one of two things happen:

• Nothing works. Your powerful productive energy is turned off. You are turned off. Your body seemingly protests and tell you no causing you to literally or figuratively drag your feet. Whatever physical, mental, emotional, etc., faculties you need to work, you can’t seem to get them into gear.

• Overworked. Instead of being used properly, as created, your creative energy and power is used abnormally (abused) in the midst of you trying to prove yourself or be something that you are not.

Prosperous business or career opportunities cannot find you if you settle and compromise because you'd be in a position as a follower instead of an originator. Whether you are a leader or not you are designed to only follow what feels good to your gut instincts. That is the secret to your success because that fire in your belly is where the keys to your prosperity are located. Whatever your definition of success is you will experience that as a byproduct of you doing what sparks joy for you through your specific spark of genius. As a leader, assigning tasks to employees who have no interest or inherent skill aligned with the task at hand will ensure mediocre and stale outcomes at best.

Every-body is born with a specific genius in their genes. If a child is allowed to develop uncompromised, their genius will emerge and the work that they are drawn to do will contribute greatly to society and will inspire others to express the highest versions of themselves as well. We encourage ourselves and each other to bring their best selves to work but it's hard to bring your best self to work if you don't know the best parts of you, your genius. Often times the workplace is where most adults find themselves unconsciously trying to work through the shadowy, compromised parts of themselves hoping for a place where they can let their light shine and be recognized for who they truly are. Employers are recognizing that investing in their employees wellness and development is a win/win scenario because both the employees and the organization benefit from happy and healthy workers.

Ultimately, it is your responsibility to ensure that there is joy in your journey of self-actualization. If you don't enjoy what you're working on, you'll never excel in it and you'll never become competent in it. When you're ready I would be happy to show you where you can find the keys to unlock your bounty and your best self. It starts with self-awareness because that helps you remember who you are and all of your dreamy aspirations that lit you up before the monotony of homogenized socialization was drilled into you by someone who didn't believe in their own dreams. We learn in grade school to associate work with boredom, effort, and drudgery, instead of enthusiasm, passion, and flair. Then we grow up to find ourselves in the workplace performing as a shell of our potential selves because we have individually forgotten who we are and what we love to do. As a result, it doesn't feel satisfying or successful because it's not authentic or in alignment with how you were designed to thrive.

We are all here to work on something and be of service in some capacity. When you are able to hone in on what you feel most capable and enthusiastic about, you'll add value to the lives of others and the universal law of reciprocity will reward you in kind.

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