Enoch's Advice
Enoch: “We’re
going to talk about talents and skills.
“How often do you consider what talents
and what skills you have? All so often you look at your failings
and where you think you could improve. So often you look
on yourself in a negative sense. I am too fat or I am too thin,
or I wish this or I wish that about your form. There is always a
tendency also to do this with the abilities that you have. How
many of you say “Ooh I couldn’t do that” or “I’m not capable of
that” or “So and so is better than I am at doing that sort of
thing”, and so you downgrade yourself.
“We are asking that in your life, that
you upgrade yourself, and look within you to see what skills do
you have, what talents have you now? What talents and gifts did
you have when you were growing up? How many of them have fallen
by the wayside? All these questions you can ask yourselves. We
would like you to consider your talents and your gifts.
They do not have to be large or of worldwide importance. Your
talent might simply be being considerate to others or showing
kindness, feeling love. They don’t have to be that you are very
artistic, or an amazing speaker, or anything of that nature.
Your talents also are in the small things. These small things
are the things that matter to those around you, providing you
use those talents. If you do not use them, then you are of no
help to another, for it remains within. Have you given this any
thought?
“The other thing we would like you to do
in your life is to look for and seek out the talents in others,
and when you find them, as you surely will, make sure that the
other person is commended on that talent, even for something as
small as ‘My goodness you have a wonderful smile.’ A smile is a
talent. Not all have that talent, or not all think to use it. So
when you seek and discover a talent, no matter how small or
large, make positive comment on it to that person. This will
give them confidence in themselves where perhaps it was needed.
It will lighten their day.
“Many of you go around saying ‘What can I
do to change the world?’, ‘How can I make a difference?’ We say
it is in the small things, as well as the large things, that
make a difference. You can transform a person’s day by the right
comments. We are not asking you to tell lies, or to overly
flatter when it is not true, but simply seek and find the good
in others, the little sparkle of wonder that is in another being
and give voice to it, not simply think it. Many of you think ‘oh
isn’t that person clever’ or ‘don’t they look good’ ‘haven’t
they dressed well etc., But if you only think and it is not
verbally passed on it does not make a difference to that other
person.
“Now many of you are thinking ‘There are
many on this planet who already think too much of themselves’,
and maybe you will add to their ego by commenting on the good
that they have. You know those who go around saying how
wonderful they are, are usually those who do not think a lot of
themselves. They voice those things in compensation for their
lack of confidence and trust in themselves. Can you see the
truth in these words? You see we too are only speaking of things
that you already know, and because you already know them this
itself is also a talent, of having learnt so much and
recognising the truth in things. That is a talent as well.”
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