You Are Opportunity!

What is opportunity? To many people, opportunity is an advertisement or offer for a job, course, vacancy, traineeship, or apprenticeship. It is an external phenomenon – originating from without or others. Rarely do people perceive opportunity as internal – within oneself. We would like to emphasise this latter meaning here.

We start by stating that opportunity is first internal. You Are Opportunity. You create opportunity as you turn your circumstances into success. The most important circumstances are usually the ones we consider as obstacles - your crises and defeats. In reality, you create your opportunity as you turn your crises and defeats to success. Nevertheless, how often do we complain about our circumstances especially about our unfortunate past, bad luck, or other social obstacles to realize that opportunities abound and exist around us?

In truth, opportunity first takes shape in your mind. Your attitude determines your opportunities. It is an expression of how you perceive yourself as well as how you perceive your environment. It is only by first overcoming your internal limitations that success can become a reality. Dream achievers are individuals with the courage and insight to say, “Yes, I can! There is a way – and I will find it! They are those rare individual who accept life with its challenges and who work to turn those challenges into successes.

Don’t wait for opportunity make it! Put forth the effort, and practically anything you desire is yours. As Dennis Kimbro and Napoleon Hill observe, “lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of the poorly directed. Every life is full of opportunity.” They add that, “there are no open doors to the temple of success. Everyone who enters must forge his own way”. Remember, it is you who create your own opportunities - not circumstances, fate, luck, or chance. The environment is not an obstacle. It is your duty to mould it into opportunity.