By Zahoor Farooq
There are two kinds of people living around us: those who yield to fate and demonstrate a firm belief to be directed by it, they are of the view that their lives are the result of their luck. They lead their lives following the schemes of stars and creases on their palms. On the contrary there are those kinds of people who toil day in and day out, taking recourse to intellect, reason, talent and hard work without the exception of giving in to luck. They rely more on logic and rationality than on luck and fate. They achieve everything they desire with dedication, determination and commitment. They always prowl around in search of an opportunity and once they dart their sight on it, they swoop it up and leverage it to their benefit conforming to their goals set previously. At some point, they become so disciplined, focused and prepared that they don’t look for opportunities but opportunities are on the prowl in pursuit of them. Someone put it rightly, “luck is when preparation meets opportunity”.
If you have growth mindset and your mind is progressive, life will offer you limitless opportunities. It falls on you how athirst you are for growth and success. Once you are all set, opportunities will run flocking to you. You don’t need to be brilliant or super intelligent, you just have to get your basics right then you will watch yourselves thrive in myriad ways. ‘’Opportunities are usually disguised by hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.” said Ann Landers. They often arrive in the guise of diligence and commitment. However, there are people who are afraid of working hard that’s the reason they miss golden opportunities in their lives. If you aspire to seek opportunities, it doesn’t occur overnight, it takes months and years to get an opportunity aptly exploited. That’s what Albert Einstein stated,” I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.” To create an opportunity, visualization also plays a pivotal role in materialising it. Meaning to conceive any desired thing repeatedly on a conscious level that’s how it becomes manifested in outer world. Stronger the visualization, greater the chances to seek opportunities. In order to create an opportunity, Rob Moore has discussed it in four steps which are as under:
Create the conditions: It refers to changing your mindset, behaviour and environment. It lays emphasis on learning from mistakes and pushing hard through your limits. You don’t have to squander your time waiting for things to happen. You have to get up, step out of your comfort zone and turn your blocks into stairs to ascend to create the conditions suited to your goals.
Spot the opportunity: It means keeping vigil at opportunities whenever they arrive and grab them to meet the desired goals. It tells you keeping your eye on worldly happenings to find the opportunities which suit you best and push you closer to your goals.
Prepare feasibility: Here you need to examine and analysis the opportunities. Once they are feasible, find out its pros and cons and swing into action, exploiting it to your benefit.
Make the decision: It lays stress on making a decision about whether to avail this opportunity or not based on your analysis and examination done previously. If your are certain about taking this opportunity, make no haste to decide it and start working on it.
It takes courage and commitment to look for an opportunity and seize it right away. To do so, there are few things to be taken into consideration.
Self-awareness: you have to discover yourselves to find out your strength and weakness. What you are mostly passionate about, what things keep you amused. Self-awareness principally concerns about identifying the purpose of your existence. Once it becomes clear, you won’t turn around but stay relentlessly centred on your purpose.
Increasing visibility: It does not mean posting on social media handles round the clock that may sound weird but it comes from presenting yourselves in front of people who are more accomplished and putting yourselves in situations where opportunities await. Larger the network, higher the net worth, so be more visible and enlarge your network.
Quick decision making: This is one of the finest trait that you need to integrate into your personality to bring about a change which will provide you with great opportunities. Make sure not to be swallowed up in thoughts, things once aptly planned need to be executed, this is how you reap the fruits.
Overcoming procrastination: – Make sure not to fall prey to procrastination for it brings laziness and you keep putting off important tasks unnecessarily. So do the tasks assigned to you without piling them up, that’s how you can beat procrastination.
“The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.” – Ayn Rand
Zahoor Farooq can be reached at zahoorahmad76543@gmail.com
