OPPORTUNITY
“Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves
will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will
make them.”
-Samuel Smiles,
(1812-1904) .
“Don’t spend so much time trying to choose the perfect
opportunity that you miss the right opportunity.”
- Michael Dell (1965- )
OPPORTUNITY
Opportunity is like a strip of
gold
Requesting that we should take
its hold
Lest it gets slip before we
are old
Opportunity comes to those who
are bold
Who never consider life as
cold
But would rather rise tall among
his fold
Opportunity leads in success
road
It helps men in lifting life’s
load
and prevent men under
discouragement from being sold
May opportunity always our
ways flow
So we may be able to grab them
and glow
And thereby make our lives to
grow
Copyright 2013 Fabiyi Agboola Caleb.
‘Opportunity’
poem digestion
Life presents each and every one
of us with one opportunity or the other at one point or the other in our lives.
The question is, ‘what are we doing with these opportunities?’ The greatest opportunity in life is the opportunity
to be alive, because all other opportunities are wrapped up in this singular
opportunity; as they say, ‘when there is live there is hope.’ As long as we are
alive, our challenge then, is to constantly grab the opportunities that come
our ways in life. I ask you, how are you making use of the gift of life? If you
were asked to give account of your life today, what would you say you’ve done
with your life? This reminds me of what George Bernard Shaw said. He said, ‘I
think there should be a tribunal where everybody would be compelled to appear
once a year to give reasons why they should be allowed to keep on living for
the next year!’ If such should exist today, what would you say in front of
the tribunal? Do you think what you are doing today will give them enough
conviction to give you the permission to keep on living for the next year?
Won’t they pronounce on you, ‘execute him/her, he/she is not making use of the
opportunity of the gift of living and he/she is not contributing anything to
the universe’? Are you making any impact in your little world or are you just
wasting the resources of the universe? Please take time to think these things
through and start making use of every opportunity that comes your way and your
life will be really worth the living!
Many people complain of lack of
opportunity in life. If we examine the cases of these people very well, it
might well be that they do have opportunities, but, it's just that, they have never
been grabbing them. Are you complaining of lack opportunity? Do not! If you
just examine yourself very well now and also look around you very well, you
will discover that, countless opportunities abound, beckoning to you to make use
of them.
‘A wise man’ somebody once
observed, ‘creates opportunity for himself where he cannot find one’. How
about that? Why not create opportunity for yourself today, even if there seems
to be none now!
Now, here is a little assignment
for you right now:
Make a list of 10 opportunities
that you have, and have not been
maximizing up until now.
Also, for each of these
opportunities, write your new plan of actions to begin right now, to maximize
them.
PLEASE DO NOT STOP HERE, CARRY OUT THE EXERCISE, NOW!!!
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