When The Chicken is in the Pot, 'COOK IT'

When The Chicken is in the Pot, 'COOK IT'

Sorry to confuse my readership, this piece is not related to the culinary arts.  Instead, we'd like to look at that 'CHICKEN IN THE POT' as those opportunities and blessings which we have had in our lives, whether blessings we worked hard for or blessings we received pro bono courtesy of the kindness of our spouse/partner, loved ones and even our bosses at work.  And regardless whose life we will randomly pick as a sample, I'm sure that everyone had tons and tons of opportunities and blessings till to date.

So, I hope we can all proclaim in unison that all of us were fortunate enough to have those opportunities and blessings in life.  BUT here's the tough question: HOW OFTEN DID WE WASTE opportunities and blessings that were right there for us ? And BTW, opportunities come in multifarious ways and forms as not all opportunities are tangible and concrete enough.

More often, opportunities in life don't even come by calling.  Instead, they are there handed to you on a silver platter for your taking.  The best example of that 'CHICKEN IN THE POT' opportunities are our relationships with our loved ones, our spouse/partner.  How far and how much did we value it to the point when we fully and wholly treasured it ?

Similar travails we will hear if we have our life either in the academe or in a work environment.  At work, there you are given tons and tons of opportunities.  UNFORTUNATELY though, such opportunities are NOT tagged as opportunities but instead as work responsibilities.  What's the common refrain we hear around ?  THAT'S NOT IN MY JOB SCOPE, I DON'T HAVE THE BANDWIDTH and tons of similar reaction.  If you were the boss, will he still take care of you the way you shoved away those opportunities DISGUISED AS WORK ?

In a nutshell, our life is peppered with opportunity zones.  It's for our picking and if you shy away from it, who will pull you back into the loop when you have lost those opportunities by default.  If you're into business, be sharp enough to leverage on the smallest opening leading to an opportunity [and just DONT BUNGLE those opportunities].  I have witnessed a burgeoning startup business ready to lord it over within its target market.  The sad part, while the CHICKEN WAS IN THE POT, the owner didn't bother to COOK it the way it should have been 📌📌📌