Golden Opportunity

I am truly puzzled at the universe lately for it would seem that it is conspiring to serve me a bunch of challenges designed to teach me some sort of lesson in life. Most of the world would consider these challenges serious problems but me on the other hand, they are all opportunities for me to refine the “Dream, Build, Inspire, Lead!” principles and put them to the test. There are golden opportunities everywhere you look but you have to be in the right mindset to see them in front of you. Consider the following:
Two shoe salesman are tasked with making shoe sales to a remote village. They are optimistically hopefully to meet their monthly quota from the people in the village and are both excited at the opportunity presented to them. Upon arriving at the village however they soon discover that no one there wears shoes. The first salesman immediately becomes agitated and proclaims “These people are idiots!!! They don’t have enough brains to wear shoes even! I’m wasting my time here…” and he promptly leaves the village.

The second salesman sees things differently. Their lack of shoes means he has the opportunity to sell everyone a pair. He starts to talk to the villagers and understand their way of life and soon ends up selling every single villager a pair of shoes AND socks as well!

See most of the people you will encounter in life are like the first salesman, expecting opportunities to be presented to them in neatly wrapped up bows. But the ones who are like the second salesman not only generate opportunities for themselves but others around them also.

So assuming that you want to be like the second salesman what can you do to become more like him? The answer is very simple. Ask yourself the following question over and over again:

“How can I make this work for me?”

Every time you are presented with a situation either good or bad, ask yourself that question and run with your answer until you get the result you want.

Hence this week’s challenge. I want you to be on the lookout for an opportunity for something that you want to achieve in your own life and then ask yourself “How can I make this work for me?”. The real test of undertaking this exercise is when you are faced to make a decision under serious pressure and you automatically ask yourself “how can I make this work for me?” without even thinking twice.

Do you remember my technology training initiatives that I put together last year? How do you think that came together…

Dream, Build, Inspire, Lead!

AJ~

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Author: AJ Kulatunga

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Inspire, opportunity, sales,  problems, challenges