Fishing For Trout In Saltwater Is NO MEAN FEAT

 

Fishing for trout in saltwater is NO mean feat.  By analogy, even as we are constantly obsessed to find for opportunities, finding and exploring in a wrong approach may NOT land us to catch that trout as we dreamt of.  Looking for opportunities in a wrong way can mean being reactive instead of proactive, sometimes ending up for us to be focusing on negative aspects instead of seeing potentials OR ending up being overwhelmed by the sheer number of possibilities.  It can also involve NOT leveraging on our existing 'networks' or even missing subtle cues about opportunities disguised as 'problems'📘📙📗

At the workplace, a lot of us [and that includes me sometime in my not so distant past] fail at work and even in life because we tend to focus too much on the obstacle rather on the opportunity at hand.  I'm sure it is often true to many of us.  And WHEN something goes wrong, we spend donkey hours and even days and weeks dissecting it.  Then, we often refer to those episodes as 'post mortems' [whew, I had a fair share of it many times in the past], which, literally means, 'after death'📌📌📌

Nope, I'm NOT suggesting that we should stick our heads in the sand.  BUT I do think we should spend more of our time and our resources focused on WHAT we want to create, WHERE we have been successful, and HOW we can leverage our strengths.  That age-old story of David and Goliath provides us an excellent example of someone WHO focused on the opportunities rather than the obstacle😕😕😕

Whether we are Christians OR not, I guess we have heard that thousands of sermons have been preached about that David and Goliath Story and even hundreds of books have been invested on it.  NOW, skimming back quickly to that story, before David arrived on the battlefield, everyone was focused on the problem, which is Goliath.  No wonder, the eventual champion of the Philistines was nine feet four inches tall and WHO can ignore that kind of behemoth?  And in the midst of that, David arrives on the scene and sees Goliath😡😡😡

Our takeaway:  As everyone knows, David won it BUT NOT because of sheer size WHERE he was severely handicapped BUT because he put more focus on the opportunity and NOT on the obstacle.  Perhaps, if we were David, we would have spent more time focusing on the problem, analyzing Goliath and digging deeper into the problem and trying to understand the various options before us.  NOT David BTW as he NEVER flinched.  Takeaway here is we should rethink about FISHING FOR TROUT IN SALTWATER!!!