I Thought I Was Weird Until I Discovered This

At some point in my life, I was very confused as to what to do with my life.

What brought all that confusion was the fact that I could do many things and had interest in many things.

So settling down with one thing became a problem.

Time passed by until I finally decided to get started at something while still exploring my interests.

One day I was going through a friend's Facebook posts then I came across a link she shared.

The link was about a private facebook group comprised of people who have interest in many things and can do many things.

I immediately picked interest in it and ....

You guessed right,

I clicked the link and requested to join the group.

There I got to know that there is this set of people who have similar experience as mine, they have been through the same thing I went through. 

They have interest and passion in different areas and can do many things.

I was happy to even find out that there are people like me out there facing this same issue, also I was happy to even discover them.

They call themselves multipotentialites.

Before then, I've never come across the word "multipotentialite" so I decided to read more about it.

I discovered that the word multipotentialite is used to describe people who have many potentials. The most common phrase used to describe these set of people is "jack of all trades".

This set of people are flooded with lots and lots of ideas each passing day and funny enough, they always have interest in all those ideas and want to explore them.

Imagine trying to do a lot of things at the same time, ideas keep dropping in your head and you always want to try them out.

That can be confusing, draining and time wasting, time wasting in the sense that you need focus to actually succeed in what you are doing.

You sure become a jack of all trades

This is exactly where the problem lies.

Becoming a jack of all trades and a master of none.

In my own case, I couldn't figure out which one to focus on.

Getting to know that I have interest in many things made me lack focus.

Being someone who loves to explore, I really wanted to enjoy doing all these things but truth be told, it wasn't getting me anywhere better untill I chose one and decided to focus on that one.

You may be in this category and are beginning to think you are not a serious person or someone who lacks focus.

Being a multipotentialite is a big blessing if you can manage yourself well.

In this post I will explain to you how you can handle yourself as a multipotentialite and make your life very productive and unique.

Let's explore together.

Who is a multipotentialite?

A multipotentialite is someone who has multiple potentials. Someone who has interest in many areas of life and can function in those areas if given the proper training and opportunity.

Is it abnormal to be a multipotentialite?

No, it is not abnormal to be a multipotentialite. 

You are as normal as any other person out there, you are even at advantage because you have a lot more to offer, all you just have to do is to know how to channel your talents to work for you. 

I understand if you are this kind of person and you consider yourself to be abnormal.

It happened to me. When I couldn't figure out what to do with my life, I used to feel bad about myself, looking at the fact that I have interest in many things and can do many things but couldn't decide which to focus on and make it work for me and I was broke.

What is the difference between a multipotentialite and an expert?

A multipotentialite is someone who has many potentials, abilities, talents and skills while an expert is someone who is a specialist in one area.

How can I get focus in life as a multipotentialite?

As a multipotentialite, your biggest challenge is how to choose what to do with your life and stay focused on that thing.

The reason this is a challenge is because you will always have this urge to try out every idea that drops in your head and to worsen the whole thing, you will always have good new ideas dropping in your head from time to time.

So it is very important to choose one and focus on that one first.

Even though you have many abilities and potentials, you have to choose one and stay on that as your default office, become expert in that area before you begin to explore other areas.

How do you go about that when your head is presenting one thousand and one options at the same time.

I will share my experience with you, ready?

I could hardly decide on what to focus on but deep inside of me, I knew I needed to choose one thing and at least start with it.

This was what I did, I started a journey on how to discover my passion.

I read this book,

"Finding Your Purpose In Life" by Vincent Santiago

I asked myself questions like;

What is my interest? What I'm I passionate about and then tried to answer them but even this too wasn't easy so I began to explore different fields as my interest led me.

I've tried singing and I love singing, I've tried writing, like what you're reading now but it wasn't easy before I finally settled as a writer.

I've been into marketing, most of my friends know me as a good marketer to an extent that one of them offered me a position as a marketing manager in his company back then.

I've worked as a customer service agent, I've learnt graphics design, at some point, I started learning web design.

I love dancing too and I've always looked forward to learning how to dance. I can make hair,

I love carrying out research, trying to find solution to a problem especially when it is something that interest me.

Oh! I almost forgot, I love cooking and reading.

The list goes on and on

You know very well that someone can make a good career out of the fields I've listed above, in my own case, which one to focus on was the problem.

In other to solve this problem and move on, I decided to do something.

I looked around me and asked myself what is that thing that you are so passionate about, if you were given just one chance to choose what to do in life, what would you choose.

If you were to live the rest of your life doing that thing alone, what would that be?

I said I love helping people find solution to their problems, when I see people wander around with one difficulty or the other, I want to find a solution to that problem and then share it with the person to help the person.

Then I asked myself, how can I use this to build a career to help me focus on something, looking at how many interests I have?

That was how I settled on writing blog posts to promote skills acquisition to help young people who are interested in learning skills and starting small businesses.

I noticed that a lot of young people especially students are willing to learn skills or start up small businesses but don't really know how to go about it.

Having tried my hands on some skills and I've also done some businesses as a student, I decided to write to help them with information and tips on how to get started.

I also want to launch a skills club to help students who want to acquire skills (working on this now)

This is something I have struggled with for years before deciding to settle on it.

You know, this will still require me to learn some of the other skills I mentioned earlier like web design if I want to, digital marketing, etc.

I'm still learning and as great men will say, you shouldn't stop learning if you want to keep growing.

How can you apply this to help you as a multipotentialite?

Discover your passion, discover who you are. That unique thing about you.

Stay on it and master it before exploring other fields

Then find a way to monetize your abilities because last last, person go chop.

For some people it's quite easy, they just know what they want to do from day one and they stay at it.

But for some others like myself, finding that one thing and staying on it could be a tug of war.

What works for some people is that they try a lot of things until they discover what they love doing and then focus their energy on it.

How I settled on becoming an internet entrepreneur is that I realized that what I am doing right now, if I have to do it everyday for the rest of my life, I won't hate it, I won't get bored or tired of it and also I can monetize it to make a living out of it.

It's something I enjoy doing.

Bottom line:

Start your journey today to make good use of your uniqueness as a multipotentialite, work on your abilities one after the other and be the best you can be.

Let's hear your opinion.

Are you a multipotentialite?

How are you coping with the urge to do everything and be everything?

Or what do you think about being a multipotentialite?

Drop a comment below and please don't forget to share this post, someone somewhere needs to read it.