When opportunity Knocks Will You Be Ready to Open the Door?

The story goes that Frank Sinatra got his big break while working as a waiter. One day, as he was waiting tables, he noticed one of the biggest names in the music industry sitting in the restaurant. Old Blue Eyes did the most unbelievable thing. He cleared off the table next to the gentleman, climbed up on to it and sang! He knew he'd blown his job at the restaurant for doing so, but how many times would this door of opportunity open up? Needless to say, the rest is history.

I believe opportunities are waiting around every corner. You never quite know when that door of opportunity is going to open wide. I'm also a great believer in the Law of Attraction, one of the fundamental laws of the universe, which states, we bring into our lives a reflection of what we are attracting, be it negative or positive.

Consequently if you have a positive expectation you will likely open yourself up to more opportunities than if you just go through your days fault finding and complaining about how hard and difficult your life is. Please don't assume I live in a idealistic world, sure we all face stressful events, but sometime's what we perceive as life's ups and downs, can be seen as opportunities for us to achieve or understand something new about ourselves at a higher level.

Try this exercise. Take an A4 sheet of paper and draw a line directly down the centre. At the top of the left hand side write down a list all the opportunities you have seized, the list can include anything. Now on the right hand side, compile a list of missed opportunities that you can recall.

Now take a look at your list. Focus first on the missed opportunities and ask yourself, what stopped you from taking the opportunity? What did you have to lose? What have you learnt from not grabbing the opportunity? What would you do if the same opportunity occurred again?
Now focus on the opportunities you embraced. What was it that made it easy for you to take each opportunity? What did you gain? What have you learnt? How has it helped you? Where has it taken you? For each and every one of us who is ready to grab the next opportunity, there are thousands more who won't and don't.

The average person has 630,000 hours (72 years) to do with them what they will, watching TV, sleeping, working, playing, living, being, doing and having.

Will you be ready when opportunty next knocks?