Making Every Challenge and Risk into an Opportunity

            What’s an opportunity to you? To me, each open opportunity is adventure and promise of surprise, satisfaction, and joy. It’s not the outcome or result that excites me. Instead, it’s the path and road to promise land in which enable me to see what’s hidden inside of me or you can say what potentials or talents I was born with. No doubt the positive outcome is important for that’s the bait and desire I wish to acquire. On the pavement to successful results, there are many scenarios I am sure would encourage and sabotage my confidence and my determination to reach my destination. The excitement is my fuel and needed energy to pursue and seek answers, solutions, and positive results.

            How do we transform a challenge or risk into an opportunity? First, one has to be awake and conscious that, in addition to the obvious danger and threat, there are unseen and intangible rewards waiting for the committed souls. For instance, what’s your response at the news that there would be shortage of staff? The first image came to me was to assess the current situation and status of the house: how bad was the environment and how many hands did we have today? Then the application of scheduling and task assignment would become tool assisting me to better distribute the owned hands. It’s the question of how to bring out a person’s best, favorite, and likes to control the situation. Balancing the skills, experiences, and knowledge is the leverage a person could exercise to transcend the overwhelming situations.

            Once a person’s mind set is transformed, all one sees is opportunities and chances to self-actualize, to achievement, and reach sense of satisfaction and fulfillment. Are you the kind of person wait and see what’s next? Or are you the kind whose curiosity would be piqued when you feel a challenge coming your way? Do you want to know why things happen this way not that way and once you know what’s happened you would have the vision about the near future? Basically speaking are you responsive or proactive or even preactive?

            It doesn’t matter if you see your life as a game, battle, or struggle; it’s your vision and mindset that matter the most. If you are able to see and know who you are, what you want, where you go, and why you go there then you are able to somehow and sometimes turn around the table having the direction changed to your wishful way.

Of course, nothing is guaranteed fair or promised to go to your favorites; there are natural rules running in our life. Look at the changes of the seasons. There are usually days of thunderstorm and lightning announcing the possible change of seasons. The awake minds would be conscious about the season changes and take opportunities to do about their businesses; their sense of opportunity is strong and might become their survival skills and tools of thriving.

How do we make every challenge and risk into an opportunity? It’s your mindset and attitudes determine the transformation. Positive thinking would take you into the bright sides of a situation and encourages you to reflect and ponder upon what’s important or what matters. Attitudes come from who you are; are you a person of giving or are you a person of self-centered? A giving soul would be a person who likes to share and is willing to be of help. To be able to help, one has to discover ways to become helpful. That’s where opportunities reside.     
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