Seize The Moment

Seize The Moment!

I might sound nostalgic BUT many times in the past, I always lived with a SEIZE THE MOMENT mindset.  WHEN my CV/Resume profile was active in the market, headhunters would reach out to me left, right, center, rear, name it.  And during those 'cold calls', although I am happy and satisfied enough with my current jobs [at that time], I received those 'cold calls' with an open mind.  And if you think I was too greedy as I never refused and said 'NO' to those juicy offers, I had that kind of mindset because I always reminded myself that I'LL CROSS THE BRIDGE WHEN I GET THERE"📗📙📘

Please DON'T get me wrong.  I was never a job-hopper or a career butterfly, NOT at all.  BUT rather, I thought that I'd be fair to the market, to listen to the market demands.  At the end of the day, in Economics 101, it all boils down to that law of supply and demand.  And when those headhunters start reaching to me via their 'cold calls', I knew it, their candidate pipelines might be drying fast❎❎❎

To cut a potentially long narrative short, WHAT happened was that those numerous opportunities offered me those inroads to various career options that widened my horizons based on the capabilities I managed to acquire through the years.  Starting my technology career as a technical support, I moved up to management roles, then veered into project management, ERP implementations, Data Center operations and eventually Design and BCP/DRP, before I took on the PMO Head role covering Asia Region and later on managing the regional infrastructures across fourteen Asia-Pacific countries.  At one point, my CV/Resume was 'hijacked' by my own boss as it was peddled to a project proposal for HSBC India [then I ended up working out of India for eleven months]😄😄😄

Looking back, if I DIDN'T SEIZE THOSE MOMENTS, I am quite darn sure those opportunities would NOT have become available for me in my career.  BUT before I get suspected of encouraging workers to be job-hoppers, let me swing back to the flip side.  Setting aside that scenario of looking out in the job market, I can share my narratives right within the organization WHERE I'm with for about thirteen years.  And given the global footprint of our customers, if and when your boss pulls you in for help in another regional project, HOW can you say NO?  WHEN more operations teams are pushed under your wing, HOW to say NO?  WHAT dividends did I gain by SEIZING THOSE MOMENTS?  It widened and deepened my presence and importance.  And WHEN you are valued enough, you CAN'T ask for more💥💥💥

Our takeaway:  To be alive is to make choices.  Every day passes, choices have to be made.  And many of those choices may seem relatively insignificant. On the surface, they appear to NOT have any real bearing on HOW our lives will turn out, especially in the long-term.  However, often times, many of those seemingly small choices do in fact, influence in a great way the trajectories of our lives.  So, EVERY MOMENT MATTERS, seriously.  Some moments, we may choose to NOT show up fully, be it in the work place OR in your business.  And WHEN you DON'T show up FULLY, we subtly impact the type of opportunities that gravitate towards the the people WHO are prepared and ready for their MOMENT.  In other MOMENTS, we may choose to allow ourselves to be negative OR neglectful in our relationships with others.  And in so doing, potentially weaken the strong ties that one day we may need to rely on for support.  To SEIZE THE MOMENT is a subtle reminder to us that EVERY MOMENT MATTERS✅✅✅