Every achievement began with a dream and every dream without requisite action is eliminated hence everything hinges on readiness. As insignificant as readiness seems to be, without it nothing can be achieved.
Readiness, in a nutshell, is preparedness. The ability for a person to be alert and be capable to perform any action when call upon at any period.
Readiness plays a very crucial role in a person's journey to greatness. Life is a challenge and to be able to face it, you must always be ready. Always putting on the consciousness of being called out.
However, the term readiness is often associated with the military. A military man is always on alerts and subsequently believes that anything could happen. The same applies to a real-life scenario. A person who's aiming for greatness should always be ready.
Success as they often said is when preparedness meets with an opportunity. Success does not happen by chance but by a conscious effort to meet with an opportunity. The only thing that differentiates an unlucky and a lucky individual is just readiness.
An opportunity that meets up with an unprepared person is a wasted opportunity. This is because it will not create any impact whatsoever on the person. Lots of people have wasted an opportunity that would have stood them out among their contemporaries but the inability to be ready made such to pass them by.
A person looking for employment should be ready at all costs. Seeing himself in a work environment performing certain tasks or the other. Similarly, such a person must be studious, Get additional skills, build himself up academically and career-wise.
No organization would want to employ mediocre, idiotic, lazy, and unproductive personnel. The growth and development of any organization directly depend on the employees hence an organization would always employ that man who was ready for the job.
Some persons are dreaming to be a successful entrepreneur, yet they lack clear-cut business ideas, peradventure such a person is given an amount of money to start up a business, then failure becomes inevitable.
Besides readiness for a job or business opportunity, there's also financial readiness. Here, it deals with the preparedness to meet financial emergencies and obligations.
lots of people are living on the now, using their finances to gratify their immediate wants not leaving some behind for a rainy day. Many persons have lost an excellent opportunity just because there was no money or resources to fund and promote the opportunity. Never consume all your income, leave some for an emergency perhaps anything happens that requires immediate intervention financially.
A businessman must be financially ready to be able to undertake any situation that affects his line of business. This principle applies to all areas of life.
To bring this to a close, Abraham Lincoln, once said "I will prepare and some day my chance will come" nothing is as rewarding as readiness.
It will be very disappointing if our future or opportunities arrived before we are ready for it instead of the other way round.
Finally, Benjamin Disraeli agrees with this writing, that "the secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."
how ready are you?