Each day we’re met with boundless opportunities and the more we educate ourselves the more opportunities we’ll see. For example a real estate developer looks at the real estate landscape completely different than someone without any real estate knowledge.

We literally create our own opportunities and the harder we work the luckier we get with better opportunities.

They’re out there, just gotta go get them.

Nice post

My boss recently gave me the chance to change my job. It would have broader responsibilities and would provide lots of room for promotion, as well as more opportunities in different locations if that is what my family needs. It is a lateral move, so there are no pay or benefit increases. There are two problems: it will be rather boring compared to my current job, and I have no direct experience doing it. There will be days and weeks of training, months of trying new things and failing, and maybe years until I am skilled enough to warrant a promotion.

I talked about it with my wife and decided to take the new job. It is going to be hard, and might not be very fun, but it will set me up for opportunities later. If I am very good, the ceiling in a corporation like mine will move from mid-level corporate manager to division vice president. By broadening my skills, the variety of companies I can work for, and the variety of locations I can work in, increases greatly which improves my career flexibility and allows my wife more opportunities in her career. And if I wanted to start my own business, having successfully applied these skills in the real world will be crucial to my credibility with clients.

I don’t know if these opportunities will knock or not. All I can do is give them the map and work as hard as I can to get them to the front door.

Carpe Diem!!!