It’s too late to prepare for opportunities when they come, that’s why we have to prepare for them before they show up. We often live our lives hoping for that big opportunity to come our way, we dream of what we would or could do if we were given a chance. Many of us may have had some opportunities that were right in our hands and we blew it! We blew it because we weren’t prepared. Sometimes things don’t happen as fast as we would like, but we shouldn’t let that discourage us from preparing ourselves for future opportunities. It doesn’t make sense to imagine and go after certain dreams or expectations of success without putting in the time or effort to prepare for it. Most often it’s because we don’t really believe it’s possible. So, the first step after imagining the opportunity is to believe it IS possible and some, if not all of that belief will come from preparing for it!
How are You Preparing for Opportunities
When you’re faced with an unexpected opportunity, you run the risk of missing it if you’re not prepared. You don’t always know when, where or how opportunities will present themselves and that’s why it is so important to be ready, willing and able to answer the call when it does show up. If you’re not, the opportunity will inevitably move on to someone else who is.
Preparing for opportunities has nothing to do with chasing opportunities. When you chase opportunities, you’ll always fall short because you’re too busy chasing and not spending enough time preparing by focusing on what you really want. Being able to find the opportunities is great, but if you’re not adequately prepared to seize it what’s the point.
“I will prepare and someday my chance will come.”
― Abraham Lincoln
To prepare for opportunities you need to focus your attention on a few key skills or interests that you imagine the opportunities will look like. You need to decide on what you want to focus on and put your energy and effort into developing, learning and growing into those skills and interests. And by preparing for them, you’ll find that the opportunities will eventually find you.
Increasing your knowledge and developing the necessary skills for the opportunities you seek is how you will prepare yourself for when the time does come to jump at the right opportunity. The important thing to remember is that even though you can’t always control what opportunities come to you, you can control how prepared you are for them when they do.
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