Monetizing your gift could be defined as creating a cash flow from your gift, generating income from it or taking your gift from the amateur to the professional dimension.

1. MONETIZING YOUR GIFT
PRESENTED
BY
SCOTT ODIGIE

2. REFERENCE: Matthew
25:14-30

3. LEARNING
OBJECTIVE

4. To enumerate the steps
and empower you and I
to create cash flow from
our inherent gifts.

5. WHAT DOES IT MEAN
TO MONETIZE YOUR
GIFT

6. To create a
cash flow from
your gift.
To take your
gift from an
amateur to
a
professional
level
To generate
income from
the use of
your gift.

7. WHAT IS A GIFT

8. Also
known as TALENT

9. It is everything or an
endowment you have
natural ease to learn and
do.

10. HOW TO DISCOVER
YOUR GIFT/TALENT

11. 1. Spiritual
method: product-
manufacturer
relationship.

12. 2. Personal
assessment
method: executed
through
questioning.

13. Ask yourself the
following questions:

14. 1. What do I do
that makes me
lose track of
time?

15. 2. What do I like
doing for
pleasure even if
money is not
involved?

16. 3. Which
activities do I do
effortlessly
without help
from anyone?

17. 4. Which activity
do I like doing but
had to stop
because I don’t
have enough
time usually?

18. 5. What do I do
excellently well
that attracts
commendation?

19. 6. What do I do
effortlessly well
that others find it
difficult to do and
they ask me to
teach them?

20. 7. What do I do
effortlessly well
without little or
no formal
education or
training?

21. THE SITUATION

22. 1. Amateur
syndrome

23. 2. Certificate
without direction
& value

24. 3. Education-job
syndrome

25. 4. Survival
mentality

26. WHY MONETIZE
YOUR GIFT

27. 1. Freedom
from the rat
race

28. 2. Self-
actualization
(exploring
your fullest
potential)

29. 3. Derivation
of fulfillment

30. MONETIZING YOUR
GIFT: DIMENSIONS

31. MONETIZING
YOUR GIFT
Career
development
Business
ownership

32. MONETIZING YOUR
GIFT: STEPS

33. 1. Identify your
gift (what am I
naturally
endowed with):
(in reference to
“how to discover
your gift/talent?”)
STEPS

34. 2. Identify
opportunities around
the globe: such as,
digital marketing,
software development,
creative writing, data
analysis, web & graphics
design, events
management, etc.
STEPS

35. 3. Make your
gift sellable (can
my gift proffer
solution at this
state?): transit
from amateurism
to professionalism.
STEPS

36. 4. Know your
market (who
need what I
carry?): describes
your target
audience in the
midst of the
competition
STEPS

37. 5. Understand your
competitive
advantage (what
makes me different
from my
competitors?): losing
uniqueness is to become
basic but embracing it, is
to become unique.
STEPS

38. 6. Narrow
your
expertise:
don’t be “jack of
all trades and
master of none.”
STEPS

39. 7. Develop
associated skills
(talent is not
enough): such as
collaborative skills,
communication skills,
leadership skills,
accounting skills,
administrative skills etc.
STEPS

40. 8. Continuous
improvement:
the world is in
constant
methodological
evolution.
STEPS

41. 9. Develop trust:
in creating the
cash flow,
understand that
your integrity is
also a capital in
business.
STEPS

42. 10. Trust in
God: the power
to get wealth is
a function of
God and His
covenant.
STEPS

43. CONCLUSION

44. Talent is not enough. But
understanding how money
works is critical to creating
the cash flow. Thank you for
listening.