Accepting Opportunities

My friend has asked me to write something about Opportunity for her book. I was honoured and got right to it:

Accepting Opportunities

Many a times we are out there looking for the “right” opportunities: in our lives, our careers and even our relationships. Others, who taught me to be encouraging and to have a positive perspective towards life, taught me to look at situations, even in difficult ones, and turn them into opportunities.

You see, the problem with searching for the right opportunity is that it would always leave us looking for what we deem is big, fitting, easy, relevant and smooth-sailing for us. However, the truth is that opportunity presents itself even in times when things are not going well, in small ways, and when situations don’t turn out quite the way you planned it.

I have accepted many opportunities in my life, some of which had turned out what seemed to be unsuccessful at the end. By making the most of these opportunities and doing my best with them, even for the ones that didn’t go well, they have opened up many more opportunities and with them, the abundance and freedom of choice in my life now.

What I have learnt is that opportunities, no matter how small, beget opportunities. And they will only start working their way in your life when they are taken. So, the moment that you have accepted an opportunity, you have started a series of things going on for you in your life.

An opportunity is a chance, and as much as you want a chance in life, you have to take a chance at it!