When Opportunity Knocks On Your Door
When Opportunity Knocks On Your Door
While looking over my activities, stats, accomplishments and goals for 2018 I realized there was something missing. Yes, I was busy but I just wasn’t satisfied with the results.
In January of 2019 the brick hit me in the head — I realized I had gotten away from reading books on personal development.
I went back to my personal library and dusted off my copy of John C. Maxwell’s Leadership Promises for Every Day.
I started reading these daily devotionals again, and will continue to do so every day. But I had not applied what I had been reading to everything I had been doing.
In Maxwell’s reading for today he talks about “Recruiting People Who Seize Opportunities.”
In this reading Maxwell mentions how many people are faced with opportunities every day but fail to recognize them and when they do it is too late.
Opportunities seldom have labels or have a different name. It is the trained opportunist that comes to them and opens their eyes. These good leaders make it their responsibilities to go out and find the best people to go along on their leadership journey.
One of my favorite sayings is “When opportunity knocks on your door … don’t just stand there with your hat in your hand.”
Maxwell goes on to say “the people who always seem to recognize these opportunities are generally the ones who I’d want to take with me on my leadership journey.”
I realized that my friend, Tara Woodruff, saw something in me and she was trying to get my attention and to open my eyes to an opportunity that was right before my eyes.
She introduced me to a program that is teaching me how to create and changes lives. To take charge of my own life while creating a positive experience with those I touch daily.
In this program they are re-teaching me some of the basic skill sets one needs to become successful — Grow Yourself on the Inside, through performing three simple skills every day, reading for one hour, writing for one hour, and thinking for one hour.
As a part of my daily methods of operation (DMO) I have a made a list of twenty-six books to read for 2019 (one for every letter of the alphabet); write in my journal every day; write and post one article/short story on my blog and Medium, an online writing platform and lastly, networking with others to teach them how to create and change others lives.
“It may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.” ~ Maya Angelou
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