Saturday, January 24, 2015

Lost Opportunities

Opportunities come and go. They may or may not linger for long but the thing about that is you don't know how long it will still be there. Just try to think back, how many opportunities that have been presented to you were lost because you hesitated or tried to wait for what you think is the "right timing".

Lost opportunities couldn't be recovered. If your chance passed by, that's it. You can't turn back time to grab it back. What's lost is lost. Yet it leaves you with the question to wonder, what if you didn't miss that chance and took the opportunity that was there. However, you'll never find out the answer to that question. All you know is missing and opportunity could mean letting something that could mean a lot to you slip away.

Even though we know what we might be missing out on, we still don't take every opportunity presented to us. The fear of possible consequences makes us hesitate and think twice. We have the fear that it may come out as a wrong choice. Certainly there will be risks involved in every choice we make and you certainly have the decision to make the choice. Only you will know if it's worth the risk and if you think it's worth it, why not take it?

Take the shot or lose an opportunity

1 comment:

Emmett Hall said...

Some good thinking there. I think that sometimes you'll find that missed opportunities are missed because of reasons you brought up but also I think there has to be a certain preparation on our parts to ready to grasp an opportunity when it presents itself. For instance, say your motorcycle riding buddy says one day; lets set up a custom motorcycle shop like we've been talking about for years, I've come across a shop that is super cheap and has everything we need to set up. How about it? Here's an opportunity. Are you prepared. Are you fairly debt free knowing that a new business takes a couple years to turn a profit? Are you savy enough, have you studied motorcycles; work up the skill sets to work metal and been crafty enough to imagine designs to appeal to a cliental. Opportunities always come around, but they are not really opportunities unless you can advantage if them or at least have the option to turn it down becaus you want to rather than have to. Great Post - thanks Jerry