Opportunity doesn’t knock (micro blog)

The false assumption that most of us live with is that opportunities will knock at our door and we just have to open the door.

Opportunity doesn’t knock. I know this because I waited for a long time for it to knock only to know that it doesn’t really work this way.

Real opportunities need to be created by ones ownself. Noone else comes at your door with a free opportunity gift, it’s not a Diwali gift.

It is only you who knows what your skills are and how best they could be employed. You know what kind of opportunities you want. Something you don’t know is how to create opportunities.

If say, your skill is to sing then you need to get yourself opportunities to hold a mic on stage and perform. If you are not getting any opportunity as no singing competition is being organized. Now you need to create an opportunity for you to sing, one way is to walk up to the stage and ask if you can perform while the there is still time for the actual event to start.

Sounds weird. Right? I agree but creating opportunities isn’t easy and it is worth the effort. This is the way I honed my public speaking skills. By getting on the stage whenever and wherever possible.

The whole point here is- don’t wait for the opportunity to knock because it rarely does. Learn to create opportunities.

If noone knocks at your door then go and open the door, find the right opportunity for yourself and then finally pull it into your door by hand.

-ChoubeySahab