வாய்புகள் அமையாது!
நாம் தான் அமைத்துக்கொள்ள வேண்டும்!(Opportunities do not happen! We should only set them up!)
– Kochadaiyaan, Thalivar Rajinikanth
Contradictory to “Opportunity will knock your door only once”? How about making the opportunity knock your door at your will? Sounds ridiculous? Let me break it down.
Direction of effort
Do you really want to wait until THE opportunity you were looking for knocks your door? How would the opportunity even know which is YOUR door? Don’t you have to either put up a sigh or better yet, stand at the door and flag down the opportunity when it passes by?
That is the effort I am talking about. You should always take sincere effort to move closer to an opportunity rather than simply cross your fingers wait for it to call. It could be taking a course of a certification to upskill yourself. It could be finding places to gain the experience you need. Or it could be expanding your network to get closer to the one who can give you the opportunity. Whatever it may be, I am sure it is going to be worth it! At the end of the day, at least you tried!
Where there’s a will, there’s a way.
Alright, assume you’ve done what you need to do. How do you know which opportunity will take you to your dream? That is also based on trial and error. And until you find the one, don’t give up. It’s usually not just one path that leads to the destination. There will be many options, multiple “Take Diversion”s, and a lot of dead ends too. Unless you keep trying, that special ONE is not really going to surface on its own.
And when in doubt, invite all opportunities in, try everything, and fail a zillion times! Trust me, everything turns into an experience that prepares you for the one that will turn out amazing.
