Have you ever purchased something and the assistant informs you if you check out the website on the bottom of the sales receipt you can enter to win $1,000? Even better, have you been given a coupon for a free meal from a restaurant? I know we can all say yes to receiving a gift card from someone. If you can relate to any of the three examples I have given you read on.
How many of us fail to check out the website on the bottom of the sales receipt? How many of us forget about the coupon for a free meal at a restaurant? How many of us receive gift cards,and some can have quite a high dollar value, and we forget to use them or even worse, lose them? If you can say yes to even just one of the three examples read on.
Opportunities do offer themselves to us all, in many different guises, three of which I have given examples above. You may not think it worth the time to check out a website even if you could win a large sum of money. Maybe the coupon you received from a restaurant is not valuable to you because you do not think the food or service is good enough. As for the gift card which could be of quite high value in dollars, I have no idea why people do not use them or lose them, maybe they have so much money they don't care if they waste dollars, easy come easy go. My point is you will never know if you could win $1,000 because you failed to even try.
In the world of business every opportunity that presents itself is valuable, and if you are not seeing the true value of the opportunities knocking at your door maybe that is why you are not as successful as you would like to be. I see countless opportunities offering themselves to me and they don't have to knock on my door twice let me tell you!
We are sometimes blind to opportunities because we fail to see the true worth and can't see past our preconceptions or, in some cases, we are just too darn lazy to make the effort to grab the opportunity and we are sure another one will pass by tomorrow.
In my early days of building my credibility which would help me build strong foundations for my small business I would seek out as many opportunities as possible and I was looking for freebies, some of these could be being able to post my business information on free web directories. This would enable more exposure for me, but I knew it would take time, and effort on my part to fill in the forms on line and then be patient until Google found my information.
If I was really lucky an opportunity would knock at my door without me looking for it, and this could be in the form of someone asking me to write an article for their newsletter or website. I never turned down this kind of opportunity, unless of course the website or newsletter content was something I felt strongly did not fit in with my principles and reputation.
Sometimes opportunities presented themselves to me that were attached to something I had decided to purchase, and one example of this could be membership to a business networking group. I would look carefully at the benefits offered by becoming a member of this particular organization and if I felt they fitted my needs I would pay my money. I would then make every use of the benefits offered to me, as these were opportunities and could lead me to the success I was working towards.
Not everyone is like me, and that is a good thing, on the other hand you can miss out on some great opportunities if you fail to recognize the advantages of looking a bit further than the end of your nose. Whether you feel you do not have time or motivation to check out the opportunities offered, or even look out for them when they come knocking, either way you are losing out big time.
As I became successful by growing two small businesses I realized I could offer different opportunities to people I came into contact with. It was then I noticed, as with my three examples earlier, most people failed to grab the opportunities offered by me and blindly fumbled around, and around, going in circles looking for the reason they were not moving forward in their business. The dedicated and wise few who decided to take the opportunities offered soon realized it did take time and effort, even when an opportunity was offered on a plate, but decided to give it a go. These are the business owners who have moved forward, who are even more successful than they were before and they deserve their success. The removed their blinkers, they opened their eyes, they are forward thinkers, like me.
Opportunities abound, all around us, in many forms, whether you are looking for a personal or business opportunity it will knock at your door so be ready to take it and work with it, what have you got to lose?
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