The document presents steps to monetize personal gifts and create income from them, emphasizing the transition from amateur to professional. It includes methods for discovering one's gifts and outlines ten essential steps for effective monetization, including identifying opportunities, understanding the market, and continuous improvement. Ultimately, it highlights that while talent is important, understanding financial mechanisms is crucial for generating cash flow.

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.