Hi, I'm Tony factory. Thank you for joining me today on this video blog titled How to nurture greatness. I'd like to offer you three points on how to nurture greatness in your life. greatness may be defined is any term that you feel is a representation of your inner world. Do not be lulled into thinking that greatness comes from your external environment. For example, celebrities and music stars rely on constant validation from their external environment to tell them how great they are.

And it provides a egoic boost that gives the person or the recipient a an ego boost in order to validate that what they are producing is of good quality. Yet intrinsically, if you know that what you are producing is valid then that defines greatness your greatness is defined from within and then radiates out into the world. If we continually rely on our external environment, whether it be others to validate us, we look for more because there is never enough validation of what we seek. So greatness must emanate from within. And certainly once you recognize your own greatness, others in the world will also recognize that greatness and greatness comes in different forms. So you might have someone that might be a janitor, who is incredibly great at what they do.

Yet you may have someone who is a leader of a multinational company who is growing So there are different variations of greatness and when it would be remiss of us to define greatness as one solitary point. So three points for nurturing greatness. The first one is be self aware. Okay? So know your strengths and your weaknesses. Don't focus on your shortcomings but be aware of them.

Instead, what you'd like to do is to highlight your strengths. So it's important through self awareness that we know where our shortcomings are, and we know where our strengths are. And we play to those strengths. Now, it sounds quite obvious, yet far too many people focus on their weaknesses. Let me give you a personal example. One of my weaknesses tends to be I am not an efficient finisher of projects, I tend to get quite unenthusiastic or bored once I start something I'd like to finish it quickly and move on to the next project.

So what I tend to do is collaborate with people that enjoy finishing projects and are not necessarily enthusiastic about starting them. my strengths, given my creative background in the past comes from creating concepts, creating ideas, and formulating these concepts and taking them to a stage where there is almost a rough approximation of the end product and then handing it over to someone to finish. But I don't focus on that I don't use about it, I don't spend time focusing on my weaknesses. Instead, I focus on being a good creative person and initiating projects. And so I invite you to do the same in your own life find what you're good at, be self aware and focus on that. Okay, point number two be inspired, not motivated.

Motivation tends to wane whereas inspiration is long lasting. Think of Michelangelo who painted the Sistine Chapel. He was inspired. If you've ever read the famous book by Irving stone, the agony and the ecstasy, it talks about Michelangelo, and from his early days until he's dead, he was inspired every single day was an inspiration to create. Now, you don't necessarily have to be like Michelangelo. But when you are inspired, there's a purpose.

There's an inner sense of meaning that you bring to your work rather than being motivated. Remember, motivation wanes, there are periods of your life, where motivation is low, therefore, to pick yourself up again, is far too extraneous is far too laborious. Rather, if you focus on being inspired, you're inspired every single day. And I particularly like this quote from Jim Rohn, the motivational speaker who said motivation alone. Not enough. If you have an idiot and you motivate them now you have a motivated idiot.

Okay? Point three and final one is invest in continuous personal development, invest in your personal growth since this is the single key ingredient to success. Okay, let's say that again, your personal development, your personal growth is the single key to your success. You become what you are willing to invest in yourself. And again, I like this quote from Jim Rohn, who says what you become directly influences what you get, listen, we can only give what we have. The more we become the more we grow into the more skills we have, the more passion, the more enthusiasm the more knowledge the more wisdom.

The more we are able to impact others, the more we're able to serve others to serve the world. To serve humanity to help others, when we have someone who is not quite contained within all those aspects, then they aren't able to serve other people, because they are merely surviving, they immediately existing from one paycheck to the other. And listen, for many, that is a common way of life. And I'm not begrudging anyone. In that situation, what I invite you to do if you are in that situation is to get out of your comfort zone by investing in yourself. If there's any money left over at the end of a working week, buy a book, buy a course, invest in something that takes you closer to your goal to your greatness.

And I can assure you if you do one single thing a day before you go to bed, my personal mantra is before I go to bed, I would have read one book or one chapter of a book rather. Watch something expose myself to an inspiring video a quote anything that resonates my mind and brings me closer towards greatness. So remember, take a step every single day, invest in your personal development. And at the end of 52 weeks at the end of the 12 month period, you will have grown and evolved into greatness. Thank you once again for joining me on this video blog on how to nurture greatness. Thank you for continuing to subscribe to these videos.

My name is Tony factory. Thank you once again