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#258| Who Needs Your Gifts?

September 15, 2015 By Michelle Matthews-Calloway 7 Comments

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Somebody needs my gifts! And they need yours.

~Kaywanda Lamb

Someone, somewhere, needs what you have to offer.

You’ve been uniquely designed to make a difference in that person’s life.

You – with your specific personality, your specific experiences and your specific gifts.

Have you ever had this happen: You engaged in a conversation with someone; maybe a coworker, family member and possibly even a perfect stranger.

As you conversed, you discovered that you were able to speak to something that individual was going through – because at some point in your life, you had experienced something very similar.

Or, maybe you had not shared the experience, yet you knew to whom you should direct the individual, or you were aware of the resources that could solve their problem.

Maybe, just maybe, you possessed the skills and resources to make a difference in that person’s life.

Who needs your gifts?

Someone does.

Stay open and attuned to your surroundings and the people with whom you come in contact – and watch what happens.

Kaywanda Lamb is featured in today’s inspirational post. Kaywanda uses her gifts and talents to help single moms overcome obstacles and “Do it anyway!”

Join in the Fray: What are your gifts? How can you use them to benefit others?

 

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We’d love to FEATURE YOU in one of our Inspiration Daily posts! If you’d like to be featured, please send a nice, clear photo to InspirationDaily@TheSwirlWorld.com.

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Filed Under: Black Women Living Well, Books We Love, Business & Entrepreneurship, Fantastic Fans, Inspiration Daily 2015, Swirling Singles, Uncategorized Tagged With: Do It Anyway, gifts, help, inspiration, Kaywanda Lamb, single mom

About Michelle Matthews-Calloway

I'm a native Louisianan currently living in Dallas, TX. I have a B.S. degree in marketing, an MBA and a PhD in higher education administration. I love writing and research, and also thoroughly enjoy reading and working out.

I am passionate about cultural/ethnic diversity and interracial relationships; so much so that my dissertation focused on these concepts. I'm a widow, and I started dating interracially a few years after my husband passed away. In addition to blogging about interracial relationships and social issues, we also provide a podcast available on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Sound Cloud and Stitcher.

You can also find me on Twitter or Instagram @ASwirlGirl.

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Comments

  1. Jeff S. says

    September 19, 2015 at 1:45 AM

    Oops, hoping these are flashbacks with benevolent content. 🙂

  2. Michelle Matthews-Calloway says

    September 18, 2015 at 9:59 PM

    That’s an excellent example! (And gosh; having flashbacks to all these terms!) 🙂

  3. Jeff S. says

    September 17, 2015 at 11:48 PM

    And on the other hand, i loved using an example which was in one of the better books, how a lawyer in a well-known trial in the ’60s used statistics to demonstrate that the jury selection process was throughly tainted with racial bias, that the racial makeup of jury panels was way too different from population percentages for the difference to be explained as chance variation.

  4. Michelle Matthews-Calloway says

    September 17, 2015 at 10:49 PM

    LOL @ “It’s not like i went home after work and played with math charts.” Touche!

    And you’re right, of course – when you understand how stats works you can cut right through the B.aloney S.andwiches people put out (political candidates come to mind) in an effort to manipulate.

  5. Jeff S. says

    September 15, 2015 at 11:34 PM

    Numbers and working with them paid rent and food bills for me. It’s not like i went home after work and played with math charts.:-) Though there is a relationship between math and music. What i used to tell the many stat students i had who couldn’t see how that stuff could be be useful, i told them that the key thing to learn is how the field of statistics is used to formulate policy, to establish differences between say different teaching techniques in terms of measurable results, and the like. If they could understand the general concepts, it would be much harder to lie to them via statistics.

  6. Michelle Matthews-Calloway says

    September 15, 2015 at 12:57 PM

    I have to confess: I gave my high school geometry teacher and my undergrad stats teach THE. BLUES. because I simply could NOT see “what one does with this knowledge.” In hindsight, I suppose they got railed on quite a bit by me and other students (#sorry #notsorry). Who cares about angles and triangles?? The mean or standard deviation: WHO CARES??? WORDS are what we use to communicate, not NUMBERS! Pfft! I was fortunate in that I had established a good teacher/student relationship with them, and they took my ribbing in good stride.

    All these years later, I understand and appreciate them so much more and would love to go back and give both of them a big hug. (Even though I love to proclaim I’m a letters person, not a numbers person). 🙂

  7. Jeff S. says

    September 15, 2015 at 11:11 AM

    Due to the nature of my long-time job, i often found myself in this position, as i was also an adviser to my students besides being an instructor/tutor. Having the deep knowledge about and understanding of math and statistics was something i was very happy to share, but also the life experience of what one does with this knowledge, and how to navigate a world which seems increasingly hazardous to someone in their first couple of years of college, which most of my students were.

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