I confess. I’m a very hardheaded individual. My “hardheadedness” has caused me to neglect many opportunities. And, as always, these are recognized by our infamous hindsight. It’s in meditating on hindsight that we become conscious of our patterns of negligence and inconsistencies.
Opportunities are more than advantageous chances or favorable conditions they are life tutors. We learn a great deal from them whether we miss them or act on them. Below, I listed a few lessons that I’ve learned from opportunities. Be warned, some are very basic – hence my “hardheadedness.” But somehow, it’s the fundamental ones that we seem to always ignore!
- Opportunities aren’t prejudice or bias. They’ll adhere to whoever clings to them.
- Opportunities are momentary; they have a short shelf life.
- Opportunities of a lifetime must be lived out within the lifetime of the opportunity. (I picked that one up somewhere)
- The seed bed to opportunities is preparation. It’s only through preparation that we recognize divine opportunities.
- Opportunities attract other opportunities.
- Opportunities build of each other. We build our lives on a firm foundation of preparation and each floor built is simply a leveraged and stewarded opportunity.
- Opportunities don’t usually come in big shiny packages, rather in the insignificant and mundane.
- The prepared eye has the ability to recognize an opportunity but the prepared soul has the capability to leverage them.
- It’s in the common and mundane that great opportunities are emerge.
- Opportunities will always show up dressed in work clothes!
Feel free to add you own…
