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Friday, February 11, 2011

Talents...The Super Woman Complex

So I was talking with my husband the other day and I asked him if he thought cleaning house could be considered as a talent.  He replied, "Oh, Absolutely!  Some people are really good at it, and other people, not so great..."
I said, "Yay!, I can confidently say that I am talented at something..."  Don't get me wrong, I am blessed with the ability to do many things, but I would not look at any of them and say that I am really talented at them.  Adequate, by any degree would be a fair assessment to most of my skills...(he he)

I am writing this because as Latter Day Saint Women, we hold ourselves to a very high standard of achievement.  Many of us take on way more than we can handle, in the hopes that we will refine ourselves into that amazingly talented woman we know exists somewhere. Which leads us to compare ourselves to others.  How many times have you listened to someone play the piano flawlessly and think, Oh, I would love to do that?  So we decide that we are going to play the piano, in addition to the scrapbooking, the blogging, pilates, running 3 miles 3x/week, cooking fresh healthy meals from scratch, the cake decorating classes, laundry, science fair projects, kids, the PTO, callings, etc,  Pfew, that's exhausting just writing it...  I call this the superwoman complex.  I know about this because this is my life...For some reason, I pride myself in the number of hats I juggle.  I want to feel like I am super talented when in reality, I have spread myself so thin, it is near to impossible for me to be super talented in anything...We measure our own talents by comparing ourselves to those women who have mastered a defined skill.  Those around us who have spent countless hours or even earned a degree studying their skill.  So, How fair is that?  I think that it is easy to think, I wish I could be that talented...Well I am sure that each of us have something that we spend a lot of time mastering, but might not qualify it as a defined art form.  As a bit of humor, a good friend of mine said, "I am really good at wiping my kids noses."  Seriously though, What do you spend a lot of time doing, that you might not have considered a talent?

So my question is, What are you talented at?

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