"DON'T WAIT FOR OPPORTUNITIES"

DON'T WAIT FOR OPPORTUNITIES

HAPPY SUNDAY ! Apologies to quote the most quoted quote, i.e. DON'T WAIT FOR OPPORTUNITIES.  Instead, you gotta create it.  Unfortunately, a lot of us [including me sometime in the past] did wait for it, akin to waiting for the apple to ripen and drop straight to me while I was under that tree. That did happen though and when it did, the apple was already overripe and about to rot.

Oh, did you know that almost 20% of the world's population is in China ?  So this beach snapshot shouldn't surprise us if we see Chine holidaymakers literally rubbing elbows right at the beach because literally, there is no 'elbow room' for mobility at all.  Yet, we need to understand that they're at the beach because they wanna enjoy the 
holiday and despite the beaches teeming with people they created that opportunity to be right there as well.

Just like that biscuit that gets dipped in tea, just a slight delay, that right crustiness of the biscuit will be instantly gone.  This tells us about opportunities. When it's right there in our hands, time is fast ticking and suddenly, it's akin to a ticking time bomb that may blow up in a bit unless you make that timely move with precision at that.  With an opportunity right on your palm, it becomes a no-brainer that you gotta grab it, pull it by the lapels and move and move fast and swift.  And if you bail out, there's NO UNDO there.  You'll be left with the ramifications of being damn slow to act on it ASAP.

Just like Mondays.  How many of us are tagging Monday as the day with the most opportunities for us to grab ?  Unfortunately, not too many of welcome do welcome Mondays with open arms, embracing it as the best weekday of the week.  C'mon, for most of us, it's another week of grinding and grinding in a rat race.  Won't you agree that Mondays mean OPPORTUNITIES ?

Here's a proven formula to seize the BEST ever opportunities.  The BEST of the BEST opportunities do arise during downturns, when everything is down or just at the aftermath of a major debacle or crisis.  Those are times when a venture capitalist's net worth shoots up from $1Mn to 100% or more after the downturn.  The billionaire investor suddenly gobbles things up in the property market when prices are deep down south.

What does this tell us.  We gotta think 'out of the box'.  Creativity kicks in.  Initiative surfaces.  Unconventional ideas would pop-up, driving things up akin to that adrenalin shot that triggers an enormous momentum that triggers a full throttle. You could have been retrenched during this pandemic but we gotta realize that a new day will dawn, markets have to be alive, the economy has to remain alive albeit subdued due to the pandemic.  But have we thought that during this pandemic, it makes sense to upskill ?  To re-tool ourselves ?

Bottom-line is to drastically reduce your waiting time.  That's just counter productive.  I'd like to cite that timely piece from David Rhodes and Daniel Stelter @ https://hbr.org/2009/02/seize-advantage-in-a-downturn, to quote them:  'INACTION IS THE RISKIEST RESPONSE TO THE UNCERTAINTIES'.  Rethinking and re-planning is a must-do especially in major crisis that was unforeseen.  Going back to the drawing boards is the must-do.  Any INACTION simply by pointing that the pandemic isn't over is the worst disservice one can ever heap upon himself.  Shape up, dude, pronto.❗❗❗