Welcome to Darren Daly on demand, your most trusted resource to help you become better every day.

Here's your success mentor, Darren Hardy.

Don't sin against your talent, said entertainment legend Tony Bennett in the reflection of Amy Winehouse's death by alcohol poisoning back in 2011.

Amy was the first British female to win five Grammys and BBC called her the preeminent

vocal talent of her generation. She self-destructed at only age 27. What a shameful waste. Think of the other legendary sinners.

Elvis Presley, Prince, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Heath Ledger, Michael Jackson, Chris Farley,

Michael Vic, Whitney Houston, Kurt Cobain, Mark McGuire, Lance Armstrong, Jim Morrison,

Truman Capote, John Belushi, Jimmy Hendrix,

and so, so, so many more. Not only is it injuring your talent a sin, so is not using it

and expanding it. Ancient scripture explains through the parable of the talents. According to the

story, one day, the head of the household gathered his three servants

together and announced that he would soon be going away on a long journey.

Before leaving, he gave each of his servants a certain number of talents, and in those days,

a talent was worth several years' wages to the average laborer, so each talent represented a substantial sum of money.

To one servant, he gave five talents. To another, he gave two. And to the third, he gave one talent.

He cautioned the servants to look after these talents in his absence, and then he left. While the

man was gone, the servant with the five talents took them to the marketplace

and traded them until he had converted the five into ten.

The second servant did the same, trading his two into four.

However, the third servant, being a very cautious man, took the one talent that he had been

given and buried it in the ground for safe keeping. After a time, the man

returned and gathered his three servants together to inquire about what they had done with the

...