The Key to Happiness: Nurturing The Mind, Challenging Our Potential

Online, April 19, 2010 (Newswire.com) - What is the secret to life success and happiness and what single thing is most detrimental to the mind? The late Jim Rohn said it was a person's failure to not become all they could be, an idea that behavioral consultant and certified business coach Gary Jordan, Ph.D., is reminded of daily in his work. Jordan regularly sees people who are completely unhappy and unfulfilled in life and work, a problem he says is commonplace among more than 60% of the population. He believes people are simply not utilizing their natural skills and abilities. "Dr. Rohn's theory still holds true," says Jordan, "and I believe it's impossible to become all that you can be if you are trying to build your life success on acquired rather than natural skills." His new article, Is Your Life Messing With Your Mind? Letting Your Natural Skills Take the Lead examines the importance of discovering and using natural skills in daily life and work. A copy of the free article is available at www.yourtalentadvantage.com.

According to Jordan, everyone is born with innate potential for a unique set of capacities, skills, and abilities. "Unfortunately, very often this potential is left undeveloped, as people seek to build their lives and especially their careers on capacities and skills that are outside their innate potentials," he says. "These acquired capacities represent skills and abilities that are foreign to who a person naturally is. It seems most people don't perceive their unique gifts and talents as anything special."

And the reason's why are easy to understand. Jordan says it is difficult for people to recognize the value of those things they do easily and well. "If something we have accomplished was difficult and required hard work we readily accept congratulations," he says. "But we are often surprised by praise we receive for those things that we do naturally well."

"Because our natural skills are more easily developed and more fundamentally satisfying than acquired skills we have a tendency to take them for granted. We figure that if they are easy for us to do then they can't be worth much, and we dismiss them with a flippant, 'Oh, I've always been able to do that, it's no big deal.' Instead of letting this attitude alert us to the presence of one of our natural skills, something that is uniquely ours, we push it aside in our pursuit of acquired skills. It is exactly this attitude that messes with the mind and prevents us from becoming all we can."

Jordan says that by placing a focus in life and career on acquired skills, many people are left feeling exhausted physically, psychologically, and emotionally and clearly unhappy. "Discover, develop, and use your natural strengths to build a life and career of meaning and fulfillment."

A free copy of Dr. Jordan's entire article is available at www.yourtalentadvantage.com.