There are opportunities open all around us, all the time, anywhere, anytime but we got to keep a lookout for them while the windows are still open. Always be alert, always be vigilant and restless…Seize the Moment! Even if there are no chances to be seen, don’t give up, stand up and create your chances. Even if you feel you are down on your luck, don’t blink, run towards your fate and create your own luck. For he who cannot motivate himself does not deserve success.
Seek the treasures that the World have hidden for us, all we have to do is to find them and claim it.
Sleep is a privilege, never sleep unless your eyes can open no more, never lay in bed more than you need to, WAKE UP and find those treasures that belong to you!
The seven things that can help you grab the opportunities:
- Master the System
- Know thyself
- Be Dead Serious
- Stand Out
- React Fast
- Attract Success
- Keep Getting Results
Master the System
Do you dare to live in a high rise building that a novice constructed for you? Would you feel safe seeking the medical attention of an unregistered doctor or dentist? Will you invest in a company with novices with no track record leading them? If you say “No” to the above, then turn the question around, are you willing to make the effort to learn and get accredited to become be a builder, doctor or dentist…are you willing to learn how to build businesses and build construction companies, medical and dental clinics? No matter what you choose, you have to make the choice to master the system which consists of the knowledge and skills needed to be able to prosper for each vocation. Know how it truly works, not just assuming it. Get out there and master the system!
Know thyself
Can you bake a cake? Does it taste nice? How many cakes have you baked before? Can you build a business? Can it actually make a profit? How many businesses have you built before? Baking a cake that tastes good and building businesses that can make good profits works technically on the same law, the law of practice. Practice makes perfect. If the system is the recipe for success in baking cakes and building businesses, then right now, you have to be honest with yourself, how good are you at doing what you do? Do you bake nice tasting cakes or burnt ones, can you build businesses that make profits or does it sap away your capital, is your business worth building…is your cake worth baking? Know yourself, know what you want and where you stand.
Life is like baking a cake, to be the best in it, you have to like baking cakes…but here’s the paradox…just because you can bake great tasting cakes doesn’t mean that you have learnt how to be a great businessman or woman…those are two quite different things.
Be Dead Serious
If the lion gave up hunting after a few failures, it is indirectly sentencing itself to a death sentence. If a person gave up pursing his or her dreams after a few failures, he or she is indirectly sentencing themselves to a life of regret, a life of “what ifs”. Once you know how the system works and after analysing if you know if you are up to the task, you have to decide if that is really what you want…if it is, be dead serious about it. Think about your ambitions day and night, never stopping or taking a break to move towards your goals making every effort to link whatever you are doing to be another step towards your goal. Little by little it will add up and bring you to your goals, to make your dreams come true. Remember this, be dead serious once you have set your mind to it. NEVER GIVE UP YOUR DREAMS HALFWAY unless you are sure that you have made the wrong choice, by then you have a choice if it is valid. Do the right thing.
Stand Out
We are used to sheep that are white in colour, what if one day someone found a blue sheep? News will start to spread and people will travel far and wide to take a peek at the blue sheep. Make news, stand out from the crowd…or something terrible could happen…The curse of Nothing.
Critical Timing
The early bird catches the worm…what if all birds wake up early? By then it becomes the case of the bird with the fastest reactions who will get the worm. In our lives, chances for us to succeed in our field come and go, React too slowly and the opportunity might pass, react too fast and you might ruin your chance for opportunities can turn against you in a jiffy. Just like the bird who reacts too hastily and attempted to grab the worm before enough of its body is out of the soil, it slips from its beak and the bird goes hungry.
Attract Success
The law of attraction goes that “like attracts like and opposites repel” and the saying goes that birds of a feather flock together. Radiate success and success will come to you, radiate otherwise and success might just slip by unnoticed.
Keep Getting Results even if…
Keep moving towards your goals and keep trying, failure is the mother of success and few successes come without first tasting the bitterness of failure. Those who have never tasted failure before but kept moving up the ladder of success smoothly will certainly meet with some failures in their lives, from there, the fall is harder and more painful. Become numb to the bitterness of failure at first but remember it so that you will remember the lessons it have taught you…keep getting results, even if they are failures…because one day you will attain success as well. Thomas Edison tried hundreds of times before he eventually invented the light bulb, he kept getting results, he did not give up…that is one of the traits he possessed.
The route to success no matter how great it is portrayed, no matter how easy it seems…comes with effort and focus. Remember, things are always difficult at first before they eventually become easy to you. The key is to choose what you really want to do to achieve what you want. Don’t climb up the walls of success only to find out that the ladder have always been on the wrong wall. Climb the right wall, do the right thing. Wake up and grab your dreams with both hands now…using just one is never enough…
Are you climbing the right wall?
