I often hear people say opportunity come knocking just once, one keeps wondering how true this slogan is that has become so popular in the past decades. Often times, opportunity comes knocking not just once, but like three times in a man’s sojourn here on earth.
Most times, we often neglect opportunities when it presents itself for us to showcase our talents and becoming great and famous in life. Some of us don’t see it as a window of becoming great, but see it as just one regular thing and then missed our chances.
Men of great repute past and present, recognized opportunity when it comes and they seized it without hesitation and utilize it to suite their purpose. The old truck pusher, or an old man that still work the streets begging for arms had on several occasions had opportunity to become great and better in life, but he chose to miss it and probably procrastinated and then landed himself where he is now. POOR!
There are times opportunity comes in disguise, it can come in the form of misfortune or temporary defeat. This is why at times, 80% of the world’s population fail to recognize it when it presents itself.
One thing is for sure, God did not make any man in particular poor, he gave equal opportunity to all men to make it in life. All you need do is to recognize that opportunity and then make use of it when it presents itself, for there might never be such an opportunity again or a window to explore to get such again.
There are equally times we can create an enabling environment for great opportunity to present itself, but this is not the case for most people because they are not risk takers. This equally has to do with the kind of personality that such and individual has. Personalities like Choleric are great opportunity enablers if they want to.
So it is very important, for us to recognize doors of opportunities when they come. This way, we can maximize it and make sure we make good use of it to our benefit and the society at large. We must also try and find a way to create a window of opportunity and cash in on it by using it achieving huge success. Men like Barack Obama, Abraham Lincoln, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk recognized opportunity when it came and made use of it to becoming what they are today.
In conclusion. We must listen, learn, create and have an open mind in order to recognize an opportunity when it comes so we don’t miss out.