Our Opportunity
Every person, every day has the chance to do good or to do bad.
Bad is not evil, bad is simply the absence of good. Bad is not doing all that you can in order to ensure that the good takes place.
What drives our organization at it’s very core is not the need, or the greed to make money, but the need to do good. Every day that we do not take the chance to passionately pursue the opportunities put before us, we have not done good.
3 ways opportunities are very present in our lives:
1) we are in the middle of them
2) we have just missed one
3) there is one coming our way
What we must be alert to is:
a) not regretting what we did or didn’t do in the past
b) not sitting around waiting for what might be coming in the future
c) being passionately engaged with what we have in our hands NOW
Three thoughts on opportunities:
No mistakes, no progress.
Helen Rowland said, “The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those which he didn’t commit when he had the opportunity.”
The person who has never made a mistake has never made anything. Today, what sits before you is a new opportunity.
Don’t waste your life wondering about what will be. Seize that which lies before you.
What you have to do today is the greatest thing you will ever have to do. How do I know that? Because we never know what tomorrow may bring. We do know that today we are alive and breathing. This is our opportunity to do all that we can with all that we have.
Seize THIS opportunity.
James F. Byrnes said, “Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.”
The thing which I have seen waste more lives is not sickness or debt or bad decision making, but a total LACK of decision making. It’s people straddling between two fields, concerned more about what might NOT happen instead of seizing the opportunity that lies before them.
Dylan Thomas, the Welsh poet wrote, “When one burns ones bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.”
A practice used by great Roman and Greek generals was that when they landed on an enemy’s beach, or crossed a bridge they would set fire to their boats or burn their bridges behind them. There was no way for them to retreat—no way for them to go back. No retreat—no surrender.
You should always look at your options prior to a major decision; but once you make it, commit to it with faith, belief and a positive mental attitude.
Do not dwell on the pain of the moment, but the fruit of the future. Second-guessing is a total waste of time, energy and life.
Success is spelled W.O.R.K.
Thomas Edison said, “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
I have worked as a business and sales coach for many years.
The two biggest reasons I’ve seen sales people fail is:
1) greed
2) laziness
IS there big money to be made? Absolutely. But success in a small opportunity and success in a big opportunity come the same way…WORK.
Your reputation may get you the open door to your current opportunity, but only your performance will keep that door open.
What will you do with your opportunity today? Will you do good? Will you passionately pursue what is but before you NOW?
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