R.C. Sproul

Now, remember the two circles.

In the first circle is the job description where you work.

The second one is the motivated ability pattern.

Now, the ideal match in anybody's life or any corporation's life is if we could take the profile of your motivated ability pattern, find out what you're really gifted at and what you're really motivated to do, and describe that with precision, and then find a job that fits your motivated ability pattern perfectly.

And let's say then that the second circle could just be superimposed directly on top of the first circle so that your job description and your motivated ability pattern fit precisely.

Wouldn't that be wonderful?

That's the ideal.

And it's an ideal that is rarely, if ever, ever found in the real world.

For most of us,

Our job description and our motivated ability pattern looks something like this.

Remember the first circle is a job description.

Now I'm going to draw the second circle and have it intersect the first circle and sort of take up about half of the circle of the job description.

And you see that there's a little segment where these two circles are now overlapping that I'm going to shade in in the middle.

Now, the size of that circle

will usually determine the degree of your fulfillment in your job.

And it will also determine the satisfaction of your employer in your performance.

That's why companies are always revising job descriptions, sometimes changing your job description to make a better fit with your abilities or dividing tasks because they don't have one person that has the particular strength for the one thing.

This is what Don Shula did with the Miami Dolphins back in the glory years.

He designed his team around Jim Kick and Larry Zonka.

Because it was a running team, great talent.