370: You Better Be Using Your God-given Gifts in Your Business - Here's Why!

The Big Question On Gifts

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Here's my question for you today. And this is what we're gonna talk about in this episode. Are you using your God-given gifts in your business right now in some form? And if you are not, what the heck are you doing? You should be using your gifts because they are one of the best assets that you have for building a successful business. I'm gonna talk all about it today and three reasons why you need to use your gifts. And we're gonna get through it and you're gonna realize at the end, okay, how am I using my gifts? And I better get out there and use them. If you are new here, I'm so glad that you found this podcast. I have no doubt it's gonna help you along your business journey, whether in the idea stage, starting, or growing, this is for you, whether you have an online business, a mobile business, a service business, a store, whatever it is that you have, this is for you. And if you haven't even started a business yet, this is for you too, because we talk about all these things that are super important that are gonna help you build a business doing what you love.

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A Scheduling Mess And A Fix

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Well, hello, friends. How are you? How's everything going in your business? I hope it's going amazing. I hope you're having an awesome week. I know I'm having a great day. I'm having to record though at night right now. I usually don't do this. Uh, but y'all know how it goes. I found out this afternoon, like 10 minutes before three o'clock, that I had a doctor appointment for my daughter at three o'clock, which is like 25 minutes away. And I had a facial that I made for myself like six weeks ago at three o'clock, which neither of them I realized I panicked all of a sudden because I found a voicemail on my phone. And I'm like, what is happening that I'm just scattered? I think it's just too much going on. Does this ever happen to y'all? Needless to say, I went to the facial. I went to the facial. And uh yeah, we had to reschedule the doctor appointment. Luckily, they were nice about it. But this is what happens when you don't write stuff down. So, everyone listening, write stuff down. Make sure you like log on your calendar your appointments and don't just have it set you a reminder 10 minutes before you're supposed to be there. So that was my day. Oh, and a jury duty this week, which this is the second time now that I've gotten jury duty and gone all the way up there, 45 minute drive in morning traffic, get up there, and they're like, Okay, we don't need you. I was like, what? And there was a lady in front of me that was a teacher, and she was like, What? I just had my whole day with a sub scheduled. I was like, Well, I guess you get a free day now. Um, maybe it's unpaid. I don't know how it works for teachers, but that made me sad. So, anyways, just wanted to let you know that it's been a good week, and I hope you have had a good week too. All this craziness means that we've got a lot going on, and it's better than being completely bored in life, right? So let's get to it.

Why Many Businesses Feel Miserable

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Let's get to what we're talking about today, and it is using your gifts, okay? Using your gifts because so many of you, I am finding, have built businesses around things that are not your skills, or you are working in your business in a way that is not leveraging your best gifts. What are you doing? If this is you, what are you doing? I want today to be a wake-up call to make you realize that your business will either run super efficiently if you are doing the things that is that fits your skills and your gifts, and you have other people doing things that fit their gifts, and you will do amazing. If you are getting to create, because many of you are creatives, and if you're getting to create or have input into your business in some way that is uniquely you, you will be so much happier in your business. I think so many business owners get very disgruntled. I know people that have started businesses, not a ton, but I do know some people that have started businesses and they got into it and realized I do not actually like this. I am not loving what I'm selling, or they're like, I just don't like the hassle of it all. And I think that's fair. I mean, you know, starting a business, it is a hassle. It's hard. You have to learn this whole new skill of gift to be bad at it. But I think a lot of people have never really looked at their own skills and their gifts to figure out either how they should run their business using their gifts or how they should have creative input in a way that fills their soul so they can actually enjoy this. And I know a lot of you that are listening are kind of that second one where you've been wanting to do something that you're very passionate about. You want to, you know, love what it is that you are doing. And sometimes that works out that you can exactly do and offer what you are good at. You're an artist and you sell paintings and you love it, or you're a makeup artist or a hairstylist, or, you know, some kind of jeweler or something where you're actually getting to do it. Then there's others of you that are selling something you like. It may not be your favorite thing in the world, but you like it, but you have found a way to use your skills in the business. Like maybe your role is sales, or maybe you're a good like product designer and you do that, or you're a website designer and you do that. And you are able to leverage the gifts that God gave you. And when it's either of these two scenarios, either you're working in the business using your skills, like if you're a really good, you know, math person, accounting, financials, numbers, tech, all that, or if you're actually creating the goods or the service and you're getting to do it all the time, these two people are the happiest people. They're the happiest business owners in the world because they are using their gifts and they feel like they are serving people in a way that is coming from their heart. It really is. It's coming from their heart. And I'm wondering if this is you too. I think if you are not using your gifts, here is what will happen. Your business could possibly not be running efficiently, okay, as it could be. You may not be selling as much as you could because you don't really care. You won't be working on it in ways that are like outside of maybe your normal time allotment. Not that we need to be overworked, but people that love what they're doing, like they could do it all the time on the weekends and everything. And so you may find that you just don't put as much effort into it. You may find that your products are looking similar to other people's. That could be the case. There's all these negative things that start happening when you are not using your gifts. Okay. It's just not fun. I know someone who bought a business that they ended up not liking at all. They couldn't use their gifts. The way the business was set up, I'm not gonna give any details because I don't want to give it away, but they were not getting to use their own skills in the business, really, the way it was set up. So it's a long story, but they ended up having to sell it like quickly later because the person was just not happy. Like overall, they're not doing the things that they wanted to do because here's what happens. When y'all have a job where you're out in the world and you're doing a job, maybe you went to college for your job, and it eventually became a grind. Like you're just like, I don't love this. And you dream, you daydream, you lay in bed at night dreaming about using your gifts in some way. You've maybe thought about something you could offer, you could make, you could share, you could do, and it like warms your soul thinking about it. So you eventually maybe go part-time with your job and you start your business, and it's amazing. And you feel fulfilled and you're happy. Even if you can't do it full time, you're still happy. You have this outlet. Maybe you still have to go to that other job. But there's some of you that have just built a business around something that could make a lot of money, which is good. We want to make money, right? We need it to be something that has demand, but you don't love it. And it ends up becoming another job. Do you really want another job? You do not want another job. This is not why you started this. You started this because you felt like you had something to give the world. You know that you have more potential. You know that you can serve people, that you will be a great business owner, that you will be honorable, full of integrity. You will help your people, you will love and treasure the moment they get to use your product or service or get to see it come to fruition. And that's what you yearn for, right? That's what we're looking for, people. You need to be using your gifts, and many of you are not today. Please look at your business. Please look at it and say, where are my actual gifts being used? And let me give you just three quick points that I want to make about your gifts to leave you with, because I think this is super impactful if you let it be.

Reason One Stewardship Of Gifts

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The first one is you need to use your gifts because God gave them to you. Simple as that, right? God gave them to you. I was even thinking about this because in the Bible it talks about it. Even in Exodus, Moses is talking to the Israelites, and he talks to them about how the Lord had choose chosen, and I can't even pronounce his name, Bezalel. There's so many names I can't pronounce, but and he was just talking about Bezalel, about how he had gifts of making artistic designs, work in gold, silver, and bronze to cut and set stones, to work in wood, and to engage in all kinds of artistic crafts. Y'all, this is real that God gives you these gifts. Talks about it in the Old Testament, in the New Testament, talks about Peter in Peter 4:10. Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others as faithful stewards of God's grace in its various forms. This is about using your gifts and the concept of stewardship. I think if you stop for a minute and realize that God gave them to you. And are you using them? Are you using them? And many of you have dreamed of doing that through your business. Maybe you have a business now, but there was some other service or product or something that you're like, but I always wanted to do this. I'm like, do it. That's what you should be doing. I mean, it kind of reminds me too like my daughter is a senior in high school and she's working on our college essay, and she's doing one for the University of Texas, and it's for business school, which is super hard, super, super hard to get into. And, you know, she was creating a resume and she had told me her ideas in the beginning, and then we were kind of talking about it again last night. And then she was like, but you know what? I've strayed away from my original idea. My original idea was this, XYZ. And I wanted to talk about XYZ. And she's like, I don't know why I got away from that. And I'm like, I don't know why either. She goes, That's all I really want to talk about. And I'm like, then that's all you should talk about. Like, let's stop playing this game and dancing around that our soul, our initial gut feelings of what we want to do is usually very correct. Now, it can evolve because you've got to evolve with market trends, you've got to sell something that is relevant for today that people will pay money for. But God gave them to you. God gave you the gifts, whatever it is. You're a great designer, maybe you're great at the back end of the business, maybe you're great at selling, maybe you're great on social media, maybe you're great on YouTube, whatever it is, you should be using your gifts all the time, whatever that is in your business. Because if for no other reason, that God gave them to you. Okay, so that's number one.

Reason Two Efficiency And Standing Out

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Number two, your business needs you to use your gifts so that it can run at its best level. It can be the best that it can be. You should be using your gifts. So I want you to ask yourself right now, what are the gifts that I have? Again, I just talked about them because God gave them to you, right? But what are those? Can you say them out loud? Can you identify them? And by the way, my you're just getting started journal, depending on when you're listening to this, may be available. And I take you through an entire process in the guided journal for figuring this all out, like what your gifts are, what you're meant to be offering, who you're meant to be offering it to, and what is right for this season of your life. All of that is in my you're just getting started journal. So make sure you check out she's just getting started.com for all of that. But this is a process that you have to go through in your mind. For some of you, it's super quick. You're like, okay, I got it. I kind of know my gifts, I already know what I'm supposed to be doing. But for a lot of you, it's there, but it's kind of dormant. It's just kind of sitting there and it's been untapped. And I want you to realize that your business needs you to use your gifts. It's also the best way for you to stand out within your business. This is what I'm saying. Your business is at its best when it's running efficiently and when you stand out. And you're creating something that is unique because you did it. Whatever that is, product, service, program, coaching, whatever it is, writing, styling, hair, makeup, anything. Right? Maybe you're a good conversationalist, maybe you're very friendly with people, whatever it is. Your business is at its best when you are actually using your gifts. Okay. I'm thinking about so many of my clients, people that have been in Grow Getters, my just getting started group, and it literally warms my soul thinking about how they took an idea of something that they were interested in and turned it into a business. I know I've talked about her before, but like Amanda Richardson with Where in the Park, she created those theme park scavenger hunt packs that are for Disney and other parks. And this was a passion of hers. And this is her gift to like know so much trivia and everything about parks and enjoy it and rally people around amusement parks and theme parks. Right. It's a gift that she has to do this, to create this fun for people. And so you need to be using your gifts. It warms my soul because that's such a unique business, right? And you just think about all the businesses that you know, like friends that you have that actually love their business, think about what they do and how their gifts are being used. And you will, you will realize that it's massively important that you use yours for the sake of your business. Okay. So number one was for no other reason, you should be using your gifts in your business because God gave you those gifts. Number two, your business needs you to use your gifts to be its best.

Reason Three Feeling Fully Alive

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And number three, let me tell you something. When you use your gifts, you literally feel alive. I'm talking alive and exhilarated and happy and joyful. And even through all the difficulty of running a business, all the riff-raff, all the stuff, the good days, the bad days, the long days, the short days, you feel alive because you're like, I feel like the luckiest person. Like I always see actors and actresses say that like, I can't believe that I'm getting paid. My sister's like that. She's been an actress and she's like, I just love it. It's like the thing I wish I could do every single day. Every single day. And she loves it. So shout out to Nicole who loves it. But she's living in her zone of genius when she gets to do it, and all she wants to do is do it all the time. But hers is dependent on people hiring her. You are dependent on you to build your business, right? And you need to come up with the good products or services that people want based on the gifts that you have. If you're using your gifts for the product side, right? You may be using your gifts for running the back end of your business, and that's great too. I want you to be able to do that because that makes you feel alive. I'm thinking about my sister-in-law Courtney right now. Her and her husband bought a business, an online boutique, Lily and Ash, and it sells clothing, and they bought it from someone else. And it, I've just loved to see the like evolution of it because my sister-in-law Courtney is so enthusiastic and great about clothes and picking out cute things. And so she's really good running the business with the clothing and doing stuff on social media. And my brother-in-law Kevin is really good with all the back-end stuff. He is an engineer by trade and has like built Grokbot to the max and is running this business like a well-oiled machine. And so it's awesome to watch because that's a perfect example of how two people are using their gifts in one business. Now, a lot of you don't have a second person because I always think, man, if I had my husband working with me, how even more amazing could this be? Right. And I'm sure way more amazing, right? But um we all don't have that luxury, right? My husband needs to stay in his job because he wants to retire in five years and not have to go back to work. Maybe he can't help me after that, right? But you see, you know what I'm saying? Like you need to use your gifts because you will love what you do every day. And it will never feel like a job. You won't have that like horrible feeling every day of getting up and having to go to work or deal with a boss that is mean to you or feeling less in at work or having to be on their schedule. You get to be on your own schedule. Everyone thinks that with a, you know, if you run your own business, you hardly have to work. That is not the case. You work all the time, but you do have more flexibility and you don't have someone over you telling you what to do. So what are the three things? Why, why do you need to use your gifts in your business? Number one, for no other reason that God gave them to you and you owe it to him as part of your stewardship, right? Number two, your business needs you to use your gifts in whatever capacity that is. And number three, you will feel alive. You will be in your zone of genius. You will love it every day. And this will actually be what you envisioned. So today, my friends, make

Wrap Up And Where To Go Next

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sure you are using your gifts in your business. I hope this made sense to you. I hope this hit home. And remember, I have the journal to take this even further. So make sure you check out she's just getting started.com. You can just search for journal at the top. They will come up. And um, as of today, the new one is not for sale, but I am taking founding readers. So you can look on my Instagram under She's Just Getting Started. So it's at She's Just Getting Started as my Instagram. You can see a reel on there where I talk about the fact that you can be a founding reader and get a big discount and maybe even free. So make sure you check that out. I'm so glad you listened all the way through so you can hear that. Okay, have a great day. Until next time, fine out.

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Now, this episode may be over, but our relationship does not have to end here. Head on over to Kimberlybrock.com, and yes, you can get more valuable information for your journey. And you know what? You don't need to go through this alone. I would love to help. Thank you so much and have a great day. Bye.