If you were able to see a macro-view of all the opportunity you currently have access to and how much of it you pass by on a daily basis, your head would start spinning. There is so much opportunity out there because no one is claiming it. In fact, there’s so much… it can’t all be claimed!
Yet people continue to think that there are no jobs for them, no market for which their product or service will sell, or no new clients to communicate with that would care about what they’re selling.
With around 300 million people in America alone… how could you truly think like that?
People think of a good idea, and start to learn how they could launch the idea on the internet, but then they don’t follow through. Why? They shut themselves down; “I can’t, it won’t work, I’ll sink so much money into it, if it can be done successfully - its already being done”…
So untrue.
But in your conditioned choice of not acting… you make it true.
It’s absolutely amazing how often I talk to truly beautiful women that complain about never being approached by guys. Every other month some cover girl on a popular men’s magazine says they’ve never been randomly asked out in public.
Why is that? Too many people look at opportunity and say to themselves “it’ll never happen, why even try”. “She already has a boyfriend, she’s married, she wouldn’t care about someone like me, I don’t have enough money”… I feel I’ve heard it all. Do you know what this results in? The ladies saying “where have all the good men gone, why doesn’t anyone ever ask me out, why can’t I ever find the right man for me”.
The key is in acting. It’s important to ask. It’s important to try. Even if you only get a dinner or two out of the invitation, you have that much more confidence and practice to apply when your future spouse shows up in your life. Same thing with the opportunity for your future career or business. If you ask a fortune 500 company to license or buy your product and fail, what have you lost? Nothing.
If they buy from you, what have you gained? Everything!
One year I was giving a business communications speech at SJSU. There was a small reward for best speech in the category that year. I wasn’t as prepared as I could have been or usually am. But I felt just doing it would give me experience I could apply later. I went and gave a speech that was complemented on both during and after the event. To top that off, I was the only one to show up. I won by default.
I can’t repeat this concept enough. If you see an opportunity, TAKE IT. ACT ON IT. Do something. Even if your results are not absolutely perfect, the value in experience and potential is limitless.
A key to success is not focusing exclusively on the results – but in remembering most of the time the hardest job is just showing up.
And as a bonus: the path you take to get there more than likely will be just as rewarding as the result!
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