Chance or Opportunity?
Many times the word “Chance” could be associated with…Scary, Losing, Pain or something Negative.
Opportunity, on the other hand, could be associated with having more or doing more. Positive feelings come when we think of the word “Opportunity”.
Everything you try or do on a daily basis requires a certain mindset to attempt it in the first place.
You dress yourself, because someone once taught you how and now you do it.
When we realize that we are capable of learning new things, then we will attempt more in life.
There isn’t anyone who has done everything on their own. We all need help and someone to teach us. This is why it is important to realize that anyone from a young child to someone at the end of their life can teach us. Sure, we would all like to have that one mentor who walks with us throughout our lives and teaches us the way of the world. The reality is that everyone is our mentor.
What could you learn from standing behind someone in line?
What could you learn from watching a kindergarten class perform a school play?
What could the sales clerk teach you from your interaction with them?
What could you learn from the way the person in the commercial responded or acted?
Our teachers are all around us. We have to be willing to use all of our senses to grasp what is happening around us every second of every day.
So many people do not try something new, because it is out of their comfort zone. Having a routine is nice, but sometimes that is also where depression comes in. We start looking at our lives and realizing that it is boring or that we could be doing so much more.
It is in those times that we need to reevaluate where we are and where we are going. We must be willing to change the set of the sail and allow the wind to blow us in a different direction.
How many times do you watch people doing things and think, “I could do that!” or “I wish I would try to do something like that.”
You can! Just make up your mind to do it!
Maybe that is the purchase of a new skateboard or sewing machine. Maybe it a gym membership or an airplane ticket. Maybe it is simply driving to a new destination for a hike or photography session.
Some of the things we want to do cost more money and some of them might actually save us more money. Others could lose us money or make us a lot more money!
Life is about LIVING!
Look at life as an opportunity. It is a mindset. We have the ability to change our minds whenever we want.
Go out and change your life for the better!
Be the example that others need to see, so they will do the same.
You won’t regret it…I promise
Brad Rhame 