Opportunities

The patient person does not answer every time they hear opportunities knocking on their door. They have the foresight to better understand the future implications that the present opportunities hold. They have the presence of mind to look at each opportunity at its face value prior to deciding whether to accept it or let it pass. And perhaps this all stems from the high likelihood that they have past experiences on which to draw, to compare similarities and differences between old and new. Sometimes what appears to be an opportunity is nothing more than the Trojan horse of an opportunist. Sometimes what looks like a good opportunity carries a mutual exclusivity to what is in fact a great opportunity. To be opportune or opportunistic doesn’t not imply haste but rather, timeliness. One must be ready and willing, but also calculated and intentional about engaging with what opportunities may come one’s way. Available does not necessarily mean best available, and right here right now may not be right for you, right this second… This is not to say indecision is the way to go. Sometimes opportunities are abound, and those opportunities are capitalized on, or taken advantage of, for lack of a better term, only to learn that doing so was a mistake. It is rare, in this context, that a mistake be ‘all bad’ because mistakes themselves are learning opportunities. Thus, the only real mistakes are, repeatedly jumping at or accepting opportunities better left to be, and/or repeatedly missing out on/leaving timely and suitable opportunities on the table, never to be acted upon or potentially realized.