Tuesday, May 29, 2007
How to Understand Opportunity
This is report here is to let you know a little bit about opportunity. To show you how it presents itself to you, how to spot it, and most importantly, how it relates to your life and you as a success. This is not a step-by-step how to, but rather it's a concept to help you become what you desire a little faster. It is important as ever in getting what you want if you can keep an open mind.
Missed Chances: Delving into a little bit of reasoning before we get started let me ask you a quick question. Have you ever woke up one day and realized that you totally missed a great opportunity the night before? Maybe it was a promotion, an opportunity to meet someone really interesting, or failed to take part in an activity that you wish you would have taken part in?
Here is where you must have a clue that the whole idea of positive thinking will get you where you want to be and that kind of stuff. The train of thought is more along the lines of; ‘it's not what you think, but what you know’.
How about a more long-term view? Let’s say you dwell on something that's happened in the past that you wish you'd done differently, or someone you wish you'd met when you had the chance, or anything relating to missed opportunities. I’m pretty sure we've all done that, myself included, but have you ever pondered where you might be if you'd just gone for it and taken up the offer, or gone ahead with your idea?
This is something that we need to look out for our present world and turn it on its head. Instead of looking at the past we should be looking at the present. Here is a golden nugget of wisdom for you: You learn life from the past, but you live life forward.
All day, every day new opportunities present themselves, and it's really important that you can understand when, where and how this happens, and how to take advantage of it, which we can't do without first being able to spot the potential that arises from particular situations.
Now, the first rule is to look for others to help. Not help as in rescue; it is hard to be a guardian angle all the time. Rather look around for ideas and tasks that will assist others, things that benefit both parties. However, you rarely see anyone actually make this effort consistently and on a long term basis, which is a shame, because we'd all have exactly what we wanted already if we helped each other out a little more.
Let me explain. There is a theory (that you may or may not be familiar with) that suggests every single person in the world, no matter where they are, what country they're in or what language they speak, is connected and knows you through a chain of seven people. The story goes that a bunch of researchers took this random hermit type guy that lives a very solitary life in the mountains of a far off country, and picked out a person in the London area to test this.
Through research and a little bit of juggling here and there, they managed to get from this person in London, to the other person living in the mountains in a far off country with his animals in seven jumps, a friend of a friend of a friend and so on.
The first point here is a very important one. Whether this theory is dead accurate or not, opportunities are indeed out there, and you should take a little bit of time out to see this, and you'll immediately notice that they aren't as far away as you might think, no matter how desperate the situation.
Let us imagine for a moment, you're an entrepreneur with a modest business, earning a couple of thousand dollars a month. How long will it take you to hit the big time? Who knows the big contacts and deals that could catapult you right up there through mutual agreement and benefit could be just one or two conversations away. Your new business partner could be waiting for you just around the corner and you could meet at any time.
Opportunities exist, all kinds of opportunities, things that might not have even been thought about. They're everywhere and if you want to be a great success, they need to be taken advantage of at every step.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying you'll wake up tomorrow with an e-mail in your inbox that'll answer all your problems, but seriously, solutions and new partnerships are out there ripe for the taking, which brings me on to this point. If you don't take them, someone else will. Don't wait for them to come to you, get out there and find them.
This is how the big guys out there make things happen. They don't do things alone, they make their contacts, and they assist each other, whether it be an intentional, or purely circumstantial meeting, a big group of people are making sure each other is successful. Let’s take just ten marketers for example. Each one has ten times more promotion power, ten times the chance of meeting new contacts to increase their chances further, ten times the income, and so on. You have to be able to see the power of this.
Look at it this way. Imagine the room you're sitting in is painted pure white from top to bottom, floors and all. Now take a thin magic marker pen, and draw a small black dot on your wall. This is you. Now take a red pen and place a small dot above yourself for each one of your friends, then a blue pen for each one of your friends, friends.
Imagine this process repeating itself again and again, until your wall is full. See all those dots? Each one is an opportunity, each one a different person from a different walk of life that you have a chance to meet, learn from and become mutual successes.
Whether they just give you a new perspective on things, or whether they give you a small helpful tip, or become your long term business partner, whatever it is, it's there, its closer than you think and it's waiting for someone to pick up and take it to the next level, and at the same time become a success. If that's not you, it'll be someone else.
Be Blessed
Missed Chances: Delving into a little bit of reasoning before we get started let me ask you a quick question. Have you ever woke up one day and realized that you totally missed a great opportunity the night before? Maybe it was a promotion, an opportunity to meet someone really interesting, or failed to take part in an activity that you wish you would have taken part in?
Here is where you must have a clue that the whole idea of positive thinking will get you where you want to be and that kind of stuff. The train of thought is more along the lines of; ‘it's not what you think, but what you know’.
How about a more long-term view? Let’s say you dwell on something that's happened in the past that you wish you'd done differently, or someone you wish you'd met when you had the chance, or anything relating to missed opportunities. I’m pretty sure we've all done that, myself included, but have you ever pondered where you might be if you'd just gone for it and taken up the offer, or gone ahead with your idea?
This is something that we need to look out for our present world and turn it on its head. Instead of looking at the past we should be looking at the present. Here is a golden nugget of wisdom for you: You learn life from the past, but you live life forward.
All day, every day new opportunities present themselves, and it's really important that you can understand when, where and how this happens, and how to take advantage of it, which we can't do without first being able to spot the potential that arises from particular situations.
Now, the first rule is to look for others to help. Not help as in rescue; it is hard to be a guardian angle all the time. Rather look around for ideas and tasks that will assist others, things that benefit both parties. However, you rarely see anyone actually make this effort consistently and on a long term basis, which is a shame, because we'd all have exactly what we wanted already if we helped each other out a little more.
Let me explain. There is a theory (that you may or may not be familiar with) that suggests every single person in the world, no matter where they are, what country they're in or what language they speak, is connected and knows you through a chain of seven people. The story goes that a bunch of researchers took this random hermit type guy that lives a very solitary life in the mountains of a far off country, and picked out a person in the London area to test this.
Through research and a little bit of juggling here and there, they managed to get from this person in London, to the other person living in the mountains in a far off country with his animals in seven jumps, a friend of a friend of a friend and so on.
The first point here is a very important one. Whether this theory is dead accurate or not, opportunities are indeed out there, and you should take a little bit of time out to see this, and you'll immediately notice that they aren't as far away as you might think, no matter how desperate the situation.
Let us imagine for a moment, you're an entrepreneur with a modest business, earning a couple of thousand dollars a month. How long will it take you to hit the big time? Who knows the big contacts and deals that could catapult you right up there through mutual agreement and benefit could be just one or two conversations away. Your new business partner could be waiting for you just around the corner and you could meet at any time.
Opportunities exist, all kinds of opportunities, things that might not have even been thought about. They're everywhere and if you want to be a great success, they need to be taken advantage of at every step.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying you'll wake up tomorrow with an e-mail in your inbox that'll answer all your problems, but seriously, solutions and new partnerships are out there ripe for the taking, which brings me on to this point. If you don't take them, someone else will. Don't wait for them to come to you, get out there and find them.
This is how the big guys out there make things happen. They don't do things alone, they make their contacts, and they assist each other, whether it be an intentional, or purely circumstantial meeting, a big group of people are making sure each other is successful. Let’s take just ten marketers for example. Each one has ten times more promotion power, ten times the chance of meeting new contacts to increase their chances further, ten times the income, and so on. You have to be able to see the power of this.
Look at it this way. Imagine the room you're sitting in is painted pure white from top to bottom, floors and all. Now take a thin magic marker pen, and draw a small black dot on your wall. This is you. Now take a red pen and place a small dot above yourself for each one of your friends, then a blue pen for each one of your friends, friends.
Imagine this process repeating itself again and again, until your wall is full. See all those dots? Each one is an opportunity, each one a different person from a different walk of life that you have a chance to meet, learn from and become mutual successes.
Whether they just give you a new perspective on things, or whether they give you a small helpful tip, or become your long term business partner, whatever it is, it's there, its closer than you think and it's waiting for someone to pick up and take it to the next level, and at the same time become a success. If that's not you, it'll be someone else.
Be Blessed
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