See The Opportunity

“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity and an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” – Sir Winston Churchill.

One thing I have realised while working with the amazing people I have been lucky to spend my time with is that so many people have fantastic beliefs and aspirations yet they are put off from pursuing these beliefs by others. Remember this - every time your heart tells you something feels right, there will be someone that tells you that you should not do it. They will find a way for you to stay where you are in life, they will feed you with all sorts of reasons as why you shouldn’t have this or shouldn’t do this or why you must not follow your dreams or you must not seek opportunities that you know that you deserve. Reasons such as you are too busy or it is too hard to do it or it won’t work or it won’t work for you or success is meant for other people or you don’t have the skills or to make the opportunity into reality your are not fast enough or strong enough etc etc!
They do anything to takeaway your energy so that they do not have to feel inferior to you. When you realise your potential the world is full of people who are comfortable with seeing other people feel pain to make their small lives look and feel better.
When we hang around with small minded negative thinkers, they tend to squash our ability to see opportunities. In short hang around with successful people.
Essentially there are two elements that makeup a human being, that is our genetics and our environment. How we create our environment has a massive impact on whether we can see opportunities, and if we act on them.
To see opportunities we need to look after our feelings our values, we need to live our values and our thoughts, our beliefs to really be aware of the outside world. This is why the East have been concentrating on meditation mind and body focus. That is why they find enlightenment for thousands of years. In the East they understand that both of our values and beliefs in our internal world drive the behaviours in our outside world. Almost everything that we create in our outside world, our office, our friends, our home, our sport, almost everything that we create in our outside world starts with a thought or a feeling in our inside world.
Think about it.
Who chooses your friends? You do, based on a feeling internally when you first meet your friends.
Who chooses your partner? You, based on a feeling internally when you first meet your partner.
Who chooses what you eat? You, based on a feeling internally when you sample the food.
Who chooses your hobbies, interests, sports? You, based on a belief internally guided by what you think you can achieve or master.
Here are some essential tools to make sure that you look after yourself, so you are strong enough to see, hear, feel, taste, and smell opportunities in your external world. Here is how to look after yourself internally so your external world flourishes.
1 Eat well.
2 Read a lot, read a lot of books.
3 Spend time with the right people.
4 Take regular exercise.
5 Take some risks and analyse every outcome you possibly can.
6 Take time on your own to reflect and be at peace with your self.
7 Laugh a great deal.
8 Hug as much as possible, give as much love as possible.
9 Play hard, play as much as possible in your life.
10 Get grateful for what we already have in our lives.
11 Set great goals.
12 Speak positively about your life, your plans, your dreams and your friends.
“Remember a pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity and an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” – Sir Winston Churchill

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