Opportunities, How to be Prepared

Do any of you feel like others get better opportunities than you do?

It can be easy to fall into this thinking when you are working many, many hours and are putting your heart and soul into your work, and you are not seeing the results you expect. It may seem like your work is not valued or noticed.

During times of global instability in some corporations, organizations, non-profits, local communities, our environmental degradation and other challenges it is easy to get discouraged and doubtful of your value, or the work you are doing.

I believe we need to pay attention to opportunities that demonstrate our value and skills to work towards our goals. We should be ready to engage in and jump at the chance to participate in any worthwhile opportunity to demonstrate our skills, learn by doing or learn from others.

These opportunities may come your way, if you are aware of what is going on around you and are ready with the correct skillset. Others you will have to search out. If you are pioneering a new and different opportunity, you will need to create this opportunity yourself.

There are many ways you will come across your opportunities in your professional and personal life.

Some skills that will enhance our readiness to accept new opportunities
List of 10 items.

• Embrace and learn from changes in your professional or personal life.

• Use and learn new technology to increase your value as an employee or to yourself.

• Find ways to further your skills by education, or learning by doing.

• Increase your personal and professional skills by networking and learning from others.

• Constantly be aware and be looking for new opportunities in everything you do.

• Think ahead about how one opportunity can open the door to your next opportunities that may be better aligned with your end goals.

• Know how and when to turn down new opportunities if you are too overloaded to complete them successfully. Adjust your current work load to accept new opportunities that better align with your goals and stop others as needed if possible to fit into your schedule.

• Learn to value your differences and use them to enhance the successes in your opportunities.

• Work with others ethically and value the differences in all when you are pursuing your opportunities.

• Do not be afraid to do something you have never attempted before and are not quite sure how you will accomplish the task. If we wait until we are sure we can accomplish the task with the precision and ease of accomplishment we feel comfortable with, we will miss the opportunity. That opportunity we miss might have been the one that will advance us to our next level of our desired goals. Be ready to accept the challenge with passion and courage!

Does anyone have any suggestions or comments to help us increase the amount of opportunities we find? Any suggestions to help us be as ready as wee can be to accept the opportunities with eagerness and passion? Do you have suggestions’ to help us take advantage of every opportunity we get?

We all look forward to hearing from others.

Bill Tipton
Contributing Author
Global Dialogue Center
http://www.globaldialoguecenter.com/

Comments

[Tony Stieber]

Bill's question: "Does anyone have any suggestions or comments to help us increase the amount of opportunities we find? Any suggestions to help us be as ready as wee can be to accept the opportunities with eagerness and passion? "

Start with your dreams and hope - write them down. Write down even those ideas of living in Tahiti reading books on a beach if you like! Write down places you'd like ot see, things you'd like to do, and most important: how you can make a contribution to the lives of others. That's the first step. Do this with your spouse or with a good friend. Everything else will flow from there.

[Bill Tipton - Life and Work with a Disability BLOG]

Hello Tony and all,

Tony, I like your idea of living in Tahiti reading books, or listening to books on tape or CD on a beach. That environment would get me in the frame of mind to go after and create opportunities with a renewed passion to help with ones goals and ethical values.

I agree that writing down your dreams and desires will help keep them in focus. In today’s busy, and at times hectic and troublesome world we live in, there are many interruptions and non-critical tasks that can distract us from our goals.

As Tony reminds us as we go after our opportunities the most important thing to remember is, “how you can make a contribution to the lives of others” as you make your opportunities a reality.

Does anyone else have any suggestions’ to help us create opportunities? Find opportunities? WE all look forward to hearing from you.

Bill Tipton
Contributing Author
Global Dialogue Center
http://www.globaldialoguecenter.com/

[sri]

Good morning
Thanks for this article

(Opportunities, How to be Prepared)
really it gives me a strenght and way to prepare in life once again thanks

with love
sri