Opportunity and Difficulty

Sometimes it doesn't seem that simple, but it really is. We all have trials and tribulations that we have to go through, but there are always opportunities mixed in with them. Sometimes it seems like we have more difficulties than we have opportunities, but depending on how you respond to either one when they come along is how you will see your life.

What you focus on you get more of. So if you focus on difficulties, you will get more difficulties. If you focus on opportunities, you will get more opportunities.

Difficulties come very easily and often, most the time with no work on our part, and they are easy to recognize. Opportunities on the other hand don't come along as often as difficulties and are a lot harder to recognize than difficulties because they are disguised in work clothes. As long as you keep an open mind and your not afraid to do a little bit of work, you will notice that there are opportunities all around you. Just change your focus.

I am sure that at some point in your life, whether it has already happened or it hasn't, a great "once in a lifetime" opportunity has been introduced to you. Did you see it? Did you take advantage of it? Are you reaping the rewards of it? If not, why? If so, how?

One example of a "once in a lifetime" opportunity would be Microsoft. If you were alive back when Microsoft was first getting started, knowing then what you know now, would you have invested every spare dollar that you had into Microsoft? I know that I would have!

What if there was an opportunity sitting right in front of you today that someone was attempting to share with you that could potentially be as big or bigger than Microsoft? Would you recognize it? I am not sure if I would recognize it right away, but from what I have learned in the past few years, I would be open to taking an in depth look at it and I would make sure to do my due diligence.

Be open when someone presents an opportunity to you because you never know when it could be that "once in a lifetime" opportunity.

It never hurts to take a serious look at an opportunity, but it always hurts to see 5 to 10 years down the road what you missed out on.