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tom o'neil NZ Herald Column - Identifying your gifts first step to rewarding career

4/1/2015

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Welcome to my regular series entitled "My Light Bulb Moment". This column highlights a "blinding flash of insight" that business, cultural and sports leaders have experienced and how it changed their lives forever.

Sometimes, we do major things in business and life that aren't authentic to ourselves, often to please someone else. We see short-term gain but it very quickly becomes apparent that we've made a poor decision, because we aren't being genuine to who we are, as well as to our unique gifts and skills.

Bill James

With a Bachelor of Commerce, Bill started a long and successful professional sales career in the finance, automotive and insurance sectors.

In 2004, a health scare caused Bill to re-evaluate. He started his highly successful speaking and training business, Inspired Learning Systems, showing people how to succeed in sales by being themselves. The current National President of the National Speakers Association of New Zealand, he has also been awarded the highest accreditation available internationally, a Certified Professional Speaker (CSP).

Light bulb moment - Be authentic with your gifts

As a young boy, Bill was gifted with a beautiful singing voice. Leaving England at 10 to start a new life in New Zealand, Bill's father gave him a battered old trumpet that he instantly fell in love with. "It wasn't because it was a trumpet - it was because it was a present from my Dad," Bill recalls.

The end result was that Bill very quickly stopped singing and focused on playing his treasured trumpet. "However, I was in the wrong place. I was never any good on the trumpet and in orchestras they asked me to move my fingers but not blow! My motivation was pure - the love of my father - but I was doing the wrong thing when I stopped singing."

The sad thing was that Bill had a really great gift that he stopped using. "For five years I should have been singing, training my voice and using the best natural talent I have. In my final year at school I pulled out my voice and dusted it off, auditioned for the school show and got the lead role. Then, as life got busy, I stopped and it is only now some 30 years later I am singing again. It truly is a life regret."

Success follows authenticity

"I missed the lesson for years, even decades. Honour the wonderful people in your life and make the right decisions but for the right reasons, not the right thing for the wrong reasons. My father would never have wished me to stop singing. If I had asked he would have agreed I should stop playing the trumpet. Other people are often smarter than we are.

"Only fairly recently have I come to understand that you have to stay in your natural flow of energy and skill where you are strongest. Success will follow when you are at your best in your best area."
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Kody L link
12/6/2020 09:57:14 pm

This was lovelly to read

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    Tom O'Neil B.Soc.Sci.(Psych) MNSANZ  MCDANZ

    Tom is an award winning keynote speaker and international careers and personal development author.

    Published and featured in the Harvard Business Review, Economist, TVNZ and TV3, Tom is also a business and careers Columnist for the NZ Herald. You can read some of his most recent articles here...

    Tom has written the ‘The 1% Principle’, published through Harper Collins in the USA, Canada, UK, Australia and NZ.  Recently the 1% Principle peaked in the top five business books and the top 21 best sellers on Amazon.co.uk.  

    Tom was brought up in an environment associated to human resources and recruitment and has a degree majoring in social and perceptual psychology. 

    After developing and selling two recruitment consultancies, Tom consulted independently in Human Resources to a number of leading national and international organisations including Sovereign Assurance, South Auckland Health, Auckland City and Morgan and Banks.

    After two short period's doing community support work for his church in the Philippines and India, Tom then joined Deloitte as a Management Consultant specialising in Human Resources.

    Over the last twelve years, Tom has been Managing Director of CV.CO.NZ (NZ) Limited, and has been personally involved in designing high quality career solutions for more than 8,000 clients in over 50 countries!

    Contact Tom O'Neil direct on (0800) 282 669 or email him at tom@cv.co.nz to discuss your career and personal development needs.

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    Gaynor O'Neil MRCSA CRC

    Gaynor is a pioneer within the modern world of recruitment and human resources. 

    Gaynor has successfully built up and sold several successful recruitment and HR consultancies and has written various books concerning career matters, one of them sponsored by a national bank.

    Gaynor is also co-author Selling Yourself to Employers’, published through New Holland Publishers in the U.K., Australia and NZ.   She has also been employed as a weekly columnist for a national newspaper, writing about vocational opportunities.

    Admitted to the Institute of Personnel Consultants in 1981, Gaynor is a Certified Recruitment Consultant. 

    You can contact Gaynor direct at gaynor@cv.co.nz
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