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In the real world, many see or observe opportunities but many also believe maximizing them is very difficult. What do you think it's true? Must you always try out any or every opportunity?
Give a man a bone and what he sees is a masterpiece, but give a dog a bone anl all he sees is something to be devoured - Ezekiel Azonwu
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One of the greatest challenges of most individuals today has always been knowing what to do with opportunities given to them. The major difference between people who are very successful and those that are not is that the latter group doesn't know how to maximize opportunities when they come, while the former group knows exactly what to do when good opportunities present themselves. It is often said that opportunities and preparation equals success. This means that people who utilize great chances to make it big did not just happen upon ideas, they must have been prepared for it.
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PLANNING AND PREPARATION.
The first questions that come to people's mind when we talk about planning and preparation are "planning for what exactly?", "What am I preparing for?", "What if the opportunities never come?". The truth is, in life there is always a probability that an event might occur or might not occur. For every event there is always a best case scenario and a worst case scenario. It is better to plan for an opportunity that might never come than not planning for an opportunity that came. In planning and preparing for opportunities, you should equip yourself with skills that will enable you succeed when the time comes.
For example:
I learnt how to code and write web programming languages while I was still in Junior secondary School. Later in life, when I was faced with job opportunities that required such knowledge, I excelled where my peers failed.
Just like the popular saying goes, " failing to plan is planning to fail". So if you want to really maximize opportunities when they come, plan ahead of time. Prepare for it!
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GET KNOWLEDGE.
The world we live in today is one that is dominated by people who have knowledge. Knowledge is what makes a man really powerful. There's no way you can maximize opportunities if you don't know what they really look like. Every successful entrepreneurs, inventor or leader we know today spent a greater part of their life learning what it takes to become what they are today. Investing time and resources in getting knowledge shows a level of commitment or seriousness. It shows that you are ready to do whatever it takes to be successful when opportunities come.
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Many philosophers are of the opinion that special opportunities only come once. If this is true, then we should actually be very deliberate in making sure that we utilize them effectively when they come.
Only those who claim to be wise see information as some wordings. So be a fool instead - Nucleus.
Now think! Now dream! Now seek! What's that opportunity you've seen but ignored, that which you imagined but killed. Wake them all up, and "make a muscle force a financial power".
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