allows you to be able to have a successful design business building objects from metal and steel.

If we pay attention, we see that our gifts have an important part in creating a vocation or life's work.

In a final example, perhaps you have a special gift of making others laugh. Even as a young child, it was always incredibly easy to see the humor in situations. You acknowledge your special talent for being able to point out the humour in present moment situations. In fact, you've always prided yourself in knowing that your spontaneous humour helps to cheer people up and to remind them to take themselves (and life) a little less seriously at times. Because of this gift, others seem to gravitate towards you. They enjoy your company and the positive feelings they experience in your presence. The gift you embrace as part of who you are, is something that you choose to share daily even as your occupation is somewhat removed from what you do as you make others laugh.

Looking at complementing patterns of the things that you do best is one strategy for identifying your gifts.

While it can be obvious to some, identifying your innate gifts may require a bit of help.

Nora is one example of how we sometimes have to dig a little deeper in order to recognize a hidden talent. Nora is a junior partner in a downtown law firm in a diverse metropolitan city. She's intelligent, ethical and consistently empathetic with her clients. One of the professional goals that Nora identified when she began therapy was to become a senior partner in her firm. Nora explained that even with all of her accomplishments at work, she still lacked some of the confidence that was needed to get to the 'next level'. While her performance was