These days, the economy is terrible.  A lot of people, perhaps most people, are facing a life that is a lot more difficult than it was 5 years ago.  Some people are saying that our children may face a life of more hardship and poverty than we faced.  That would be a first for many generations, if it is true.

However, are there ways that we can overcome the adversity that we face from the world economy?  Sure we can.  Perhaps we will have to do a lot of work and building to accomplish the lifestyle that we enjoyed a decade ago, but that does not mean it is impossible.  A little hard work never hurt anybody, right?  In fact, life a decade ago was probably too void of the hard work that we faced in previous decades.  Perhaps getting back to working a little harder may be the answer to the situation that we face.

Opportunity Way

I’m sure we have all heard the old saying about “opportunity knocking.”  Let me ask you this… what do you do when opportunity knocks?  Do you answer the door when there is knocking?  Before you answer “yes,” or “of course I do” think about it.  I didn’t ask if you answer the door when you hear a knock.  What if there is a knock but you don’t hear it?  Of course, if you don’t hear it, you don’t answer, right?  That’s probably why many decades ago the doorbell was invented.  It made the sound louder when somebody was at the door, so that we could more easily hear it, and would answer the door.

Opportunity has no doorbell, though.  You have to be diligent if you want to be sure that you see opportunity and answer the door when opportunity is knocking.

What do you mean, Bob?

Opportunity Knocked - Were you out?

Well, when opportunity is in front of us, it does not always hold a big sign saying “I am an opportunity,” sometimes we have to analyze it carefully and come to the realization that what you are looking at is an opportunity, and that you can seize that opportunity.

Think about it.  We both agree that economically we are going through a difficult time at this juncture, right?  Maybe some of you who are reading this are unemployed.  The odds are that a fair number of readers are under-employed, having jobs that are good enough to just get by, but don’t really utilize the true talents that you have.  Maybe the only job that you can find is a part time job that makes just enough to pay the rent.  So, some of you readers are under tough economic pressure right now.  That is an opportunity.

What?  This is an opportunity?

Yes, I believe that it is, you just don’t recognize the opportunity.  But, think about it.  During this tough time, would you like for somebody to come along and ease your suffering, and make your life better?  Think about what it would be that somebody could do to improve your life right now.  If you come up with any ideas of what could be done, you just identified opportunity!  That’s right, you just found a list of things that you could do to help others.  I mean, if you are in a tough situation and others are too, surely the things that you need or want to assist you would also be desired by others.  Perhaps you could begin offering services to assist others in need.  That is an opportunity that is being present to you, yet you might not have seen it or recognized  it because you were too busy trying to figure out how to get out of the situation you find yourself in.  So, now that you know some things that are needed, you have to get busy figuring out how best to turn what you discovered into a small business.  You can do it!

Always be on the lookout for opportunity.  In my life, for years and years I have been doing that.  Everyplace I go, I am watching for ways that I can benefit from things that I see or encounter.  It’s not all about making money, there are other things that opportunity can do when you answer the door:

• Improve your life
• Make you a happier person
• Help you earn money
• Help you to help others
• Meet new people that will improve your life
• the list is endless, but you have to look for and recognize opportunity when it presents itself!

You can do it.  But, you have to be on the lookout for opportunity, because you never know when or where it will present itself!