What are your top five skills?

[Crankley]

I'm wanting to have a bit of a clear out. Before beginning I saw "Get Organised with the Home Edit" on Netflex and decided to watch it for inspiration.

Their first assignment was with Reece Witherspoon. She was very impressed and remarked on how amazing the font was on the signs. One of the organisers thanked her and said it was her handwriting which they had turned into a font. RW said 'you have great handwriting'. The organiser said 'I know, thank you, it's one of my top five skills'. I've decided since I didn't have 50 pairs of designer shoes or enough clothes to split into their various couture designers, I would give up watching and do it my way.

So I would be interested in knowing what you think are your top five skills?

I need to have a think if I have any.

I’m incredibly well-organised and efficient
Excellent at problem solving
Good at reading people and predicting how they will react and behave
Great at cat massage
Generally good at cooking, but my roast potatoes are unbeatable

Very good imagination-have always loved reading and creating my own world
Keeping calm in a crisis- if your arm drops off, it's me you want!
Being very organised
Can listen to people's waffle and finding the main issue and solution
Able to teach really well- am not a teacher, but my works means I have to teach my staff things/ skills

1. I can read music, and sing well enough to be in a decent choir (also play the piano and violin, but less well)!

2. I'm a reasonable cook, with or without a recipe.

3. I have an excellent memory for names and faces (though unfortunately I can't always put the two together).

4. I'm very good at commenting on documents like dissertations and essays, particularly when I have no knowledge of the subject. A connected skill is that I'm very good at shortening documents that are too long.

5. I have a good spatial awareness and a good sense of direction. That is fortunate, as my husband is the opposite. I'm therefore always the one who packs the car, and who drives it.

1. I have excellent colour recollection so can always remember the exact hue of an item even when I've not got it with me.
2. I can make amazingly light pastry.
3. I'm great at breaking big tasks down into little steps and getting them in the right order (should probably have pursued a career in Logistics).
4. I can cook a full meal but leave the kitchen looking like it has hardly been used (this may not seen like a big thing but you should see the bomb site DH creates.).
5. I'm great at endurance-type sports events. I may not be fast but I can suffer with the best and won't give up.

1. Putting myself down
2. Thinking the worst of myself
3. Comparing myself unfavourably to others
4. Being extremely awkward in social situations
5. Not being able to hold a conversation

I am a great judge of character.
I can cure hiccups
Excellent cook
I give great constructive feedback on writing.
I can talk to and find common ground with most people.

Pommelegible Have another go, I would pay good money on a bet that you have skills far better than putting yourself down. I look forward to hearing them.

I'm going to guess the first one is you're a good Mum. How's your cooking or are you better at eating

1 I can pack the boot of a small car with more things than you can imagine and never fail to surprise DH on how much more I can fit on than he can
2 I have always been a well liked and respected member of any team I have been part of in my 35 years of work in 9 different jjobs and have never had an major fallouts or disagreements with work colleagues or bosses.

1. I can sing in harmony with anyone who is singing in tune ( I have more trouble sining in tune completely on my own and have no formal musical talent like reading music or playing a musical instrument etc).)

4.i can reverse park in to very small.spaces in one go ( took me years to be able to do that though ) 5 I can wash and dry most clothes so that they need no ironing . Whenever DH does the laundry I always end up having to iron things which is seriously annoying

1. I am genuinely really good at lecturing - the standy up and talking to students for an hour or two part of the job. I get really high scores and great feedback on student evaluations and I’ve won awards for it.
2. I am a good friend.
3. I make my children feel loved and safe and happy. Even as teens they’ll come and talk to me about what’s going on in their lives, even when they know I may not agree or be happy about it.
4. I am resilient.
5. I make a great lasagne.

1. I can fold a Terry nappy in to three different nappy folds
2. I can make butter from scratch
3. I can keep freshly hatched and abandoned chicks alive in my bra
4. I can fire a gas reduction kiln and know instinctively when it’s hit the sweet for reduction (about 1060c)
5. I can make cheese sauce by eye. Well, not with my eyes- but I can eye ball the quantities and it turns out well.

I can make years of nothing much look like a truly shit hot CV.

I can magic up a luscious meal from a couple of shrivelled things in the fridge and a handful of dried beans.

I have infinite patience and eye boggling skills in styling other people (particularly those I’m fond of).

I can turn the most reluctant reader into an eager, well read literary critic in about a couple of days.

I can disappear for decades …

Really good at making a meal out of nothing.

Can pcuk the exact tupperware for the amount of food to be stored.

Know in about a minute what people are like, can easily weigh people up.

Ridiculously quick at stuff I. E. Processes, typing emails, etc.

I'm pretty charming too.

SomethingYesterday

Disappearing for decades sounds interesting.

I would love to see you try getting my sister to read. I think the last book she read was well over sixty years ago

1. I'm really, really good at Googling stuff.
2. I can guess weights of things by eye, pretty accurately.
3. I can detect pretty much anything by smell.
4. I'm very good at cervical smears (practice nurse!)
5. I read quickly and can skim read effectively.

I can sleep anywhere. I mean anywhere.

I don’t need an alarm clock I can wake myself at any time I choose.

I can often see a solution to a problem before other people even realise there is a problem. This can be frustrating.

Scrambled eggs. Excellent at making them.

I’m incredibly tenacious and never give up on things. That may be more a personality trait than a skill though.

@bumblingbovine49 I have similar 'boot tetris' skills. DH leaves it to me now!

Never forget anyone’s birthday, even people who I never see anymore.
Dogs like me.
Ridiculously good at ping pong.
Very good sense of smell.
Insanely fast typist.

@HerkyBaby

1: I can touch my nose with tongue 2: Hold an entire pencil case under one breast 3: I wrap presents beautifully 4: I can usually tell if someone is an idiot even if they don’t know it themselves. 5:I can light a fire without using fire lighters

Such a range of skills

1. I can poach an egg pretty well
2. I speak several languages
3. I am good at decorating the Christmas tree
4. I am a good friend
5. Sarcasm.

I make great Yorkshire puddings.
I’m skilled at taking masses of complex technical data and organising it into reports for the area in which I work.
I take on complex failing projects and turn them around; I’m really good at building bridges between organisations to get them to work together.
I can produce meals for loads of people at the drop of a hat.
Yorkshire puddings. I really am bloody awesome at them. It bears repeating.