Advice columnist Ann Landers said: “Opportunities are often disguised as hard work. Most people fail to recognize them.”
Suffice to say not all people are on board with “hard work”. There are those that expect things to be handed over to them without so much as lifting a finger to deserve it. Irritating? Yup! Universal? Double Yup!
Author James MacDonald said: “Those who study human experience agree almost universally that life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you choose to respond.”
It gives me pause, and it should, because how I choose to respond to something could change my life and those around me for a very long time. We’re not always dealt the hand that we want to play with – but unlike golf, there aren’t many “mulligans” in that life.
Your decisions and your attitudes play a huge part in taking advantage of opportunities. And yes, it does indeed require hard work. I leave you with a quote from another author, Charles Swindoll, on the power of being positive with your possibilities!
“Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitude . . . I believe the single most important decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my attitude choice. It’s more important than my past. It’s more important than my education or my bankroll or my success or my failures. My attitude choice is more important than my fame or my pain or what others think or say about me or my position or my circumstances. Attitudes keep me going or cripple my progress. Attitude alone fuels my fire or assaults my hope. When my attitude is right, there is no barrier too high nor valley too deep nor dream too extreme nor challenge too great for me.”
What are your opportunities today?
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