It All Starts With Opportunity

Life is all about opportunity. It’s about the choices we make on a daily basis.

We are all presented with opportunities every day whether we see them or not.

Some people are lucky enough to have opportunities served up to them on the platter of life not having to work very hard for them. And even then, these people may not realise their opportunities and let them sail away.

While others are given very little or nothing by way of opportunity, yet they are determined to make the most of their abilities and surrounding circumstance to create and realise opportunity where none may have existed before.

Sometimes opportunities are disguised as setbacks, major losses and betrayals that give us the momentum to change our circumstances for the better. Sometimes they are a little note of gratitude and encouragement that lights the fire of ambition and purpose. Sometimes they are boring mundane things or small irritants that finally capture our attention and tell us that something has to give.

However opportunity arrives on our doorsteps, we would be foolish to think our success in realising opportunities happens in isolation and is completely under our own control.

In a world of hyper-individualism, it is a good to remember that we are all part of an interconnected system of relationships, circumstances, communities and societies and that we didn’t get there, wherever there is, all by ourselves. If you look behind the scenes, many of those so called ‘self-made billionaires’ were fortunate to be supported by wealthy parents or other connexions who backed their ideas.