The word from my heart pocket is Opportunity.
What is Opportunity to you?
Is it your lucky chance? Is it that circumstances become favorable and you take advantage of them? Is it finally your turn? Is it your big break? Do you see an opening and walk through it? Is it your one shot, your fair shake, your moment in time?
When does opportunity appear? All the time. In every moment. When you do your best at whatever is at hand, that's an opportunity - for your boss to see you, to feel good about yourself, to learn and increase your skills. To experience something new.
How does opportunity benefit you? Ask this question to a crowd of people and the Number One answer is always Money. That's because money is on everyone's brain all the time. Anyone else have a thought? Depends on the opportunity, doesn't it? Whatever the circumstance of it, whatever the possibility it holds, there it is ... The opportunity to teach, to heal, to grow, to help, to be honest, to create, to feel good, to be kind, and yes, to make lots of money. There are negative types of opportunities to cheat, to steal, to lie, to hurt someone, to ignore, to be a coward, to abuse. This shows that what opportunities we choose creates our character and that it is not the opportunity that is important, it is the person inside of it.
How do you best use opportunity?
Step One: Be open to it. Entertain the idea that opportunity is in everything. If you are having an idea or a specific thought about something, then opportunity is ripe. Time to peel it. Expose yourself to it. Roll it around in your head and imagine it. How does it look? How does it feel? How much do you like it, want it? Nothing is impossible.
Step Two: See yourself inside the opportunity. This means making yourself available; putting yourself out there. This can happen in the framework of your personality, your goals and your dreams. Opportunity knows no bounds and is an equal opportunity employer. It is vast and wide and wants us to know that there are millions of opportunities for each of us. Usually the biggest opportunities culminate from a series of really small ones. That's why the "every minute" ones are so important. You never know when or where they'll happen. Most of us are not mind readers and often, we are myopic.
Step Three: Recognize something as an opportunity. How do we know it when it appears? Some are obvious. Some we have dreamed of all of our lives and we would recognize them anywhere. Some we feel we were born to do. Some pass us by while we are busy being in a fog or avoiding them. Awareness is key. That means listening, understanding, and considering the opportunity. Most of us get stopped at #1. A clue is that we feel really good.
We are never too old or too young or too fat or not degree'd enough for opportunity. When facing what feels like huge obstacles, Overwhelm and Fear are two of the biggest scalawags that block our vision. If we can push them aside, even for an hour - this will remove pressure to see the opportunities available. Even if they are small, they usually offer something proactive that gives us a leg up and turns us toward the direction we want to go. When you can't see any opportunity, do something. Do SOMETHING (I suggest 3 somethings) toward your goal. Then take a walk. This combination of actions is an amazing prescription for stress relief and insight.
If you don't try for your opportunities, there are plenty of people who will.
If you don't give yourself credit enough to try, start right there. Start by practicing courage. Do something tiny that takes you one step outside your comfort zone. The safety net is that you can go back to where you were. Send the query letter. Check out the classifieds and mark jobs you'd really like to have. Imagine step by step how you would get a job like that. Do step one.
If you don't give yourself credit enough to try, start right there. Start by practicing courage. Do something tiny that takes you one step outside your comfort zone. The safety net is that you can go back to where you were. Send the query letter. Check out the classifieds and mark jobs you'd really like to have. Imagine step by step how you would get a job like that. Do step one.
Opportunities open up when you make up your mind you want them in your life.
Opportunities appear when you decide you are willing to do what it takes.
Opportunities are reciprocal: You work for them and they work for you. You're a team and you can become inseparable.
What is Opportunity to you? What is the first thing that comes to your mind? That's the opportunity most important to you right now. Go for it!
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