7 Ways To Recognize Opportunity
It’s true, opportunity is everywhere. Being open to them can really be key to success; but how do you form a habit of recognizing opportunity?
These seven tips from Steve Olson are right on point. One I think he could have added was keeping optimistic. When you remove pessimism from any equation you begin seeing the good in all situations and opportunities in everything.
Be grateful –Being grateful is the antidote to resentment and complacency. Resentment and complacency block your ability to see clearly. The best way to clear resentment and complacency from your mind is to be grateful for where you are right now. Be grateful for your gifts and your weaknesses. Be grateful for your success and your setbacks. If you are grateful for all things, including those that appear to go wrong, you will be able to see them for the opportunities they are.
7 Ways to Help Yourself Recognize Opportunity – [SteveOlson]
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Helen says on July 23rd, 2007 at 10:55 pm
I agree with removing pessimism. Pessimism alone causes a lot of problems with surely make things worse if we don’t know how to convert to negative thoughts into positive ones.
Steve Olson says on July 24th, 2007 at 9:08 am
Craig,
Thanks so much for the opportunity to be on liferhack.org!
I didn’t spot that opportunity coming, but it sure is nice.
10668844 says on July 24th, 2007 at 9:51 am
Attitude – it is your attitude that determines 99% of what comes of your day and what opportunities you are open to seeing.
dzikry says on July 24th, 2007 at 11:12 am
People always say that your income is determine by the average income of the 10 people who are closest to you (closest friends). So I believe it the same case for creativity. Your own creativity is also dependent on the group that you are closest to. This is the first point out of the seven.
The other points other than gratefulness,in the article to can be summarized into paradigm shift and vision.This is the problem that the management of Xerox lab faced in the 70’s and 80’s. The cofounder of Adobe, Charles Geschke, said it out in the book “Founders At Work”.He describe how the Xerox management miss the opportunity on the inventions that was created in the lab such as wordprocessor, lan networking,windows, and desktop publishing. These technologies later on end up in companies such as Adobe, Microsoft, Apple, and 3M.