Instead of waiting for nothing, it is better to create your own opportunities

Opportunities are not waiting for them. Opportunities are created by people. Opportunities will always favor those who are always prepared. So as long as you have certain abilities, opportunities will come. If you are not always prepared, even if the opportunity comes, you will not know what it is. You can't just wait stupidly, you must prepare with your mind and create opportunities.

Opportunities are not available to everyone, and opportunities do not come when you want them. In real life, why do some people succeed while others fail? This is because everyone has a different attitude. Some people look for, try, and work hard to create opportunities after being prepared, so they succeed after working hard. And some people, with an indifferent attitude, wait for the opportunity to come. The reason for failure is that you did not actively look for opportunities. Opportunities will never come to you. Never come again.” Sometimes an opportunity only comes once. If you don't take advantage of it, it will quietly leave you. When you wake up and want to take advantage of it, it will be too late.

Everyone who desires success must not wait for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Opportunity is like a magic wand in the hand of God, controlling people's destiny and success or failure. Success, it only favors those who can seize opportunities and create opportunities, and they will eventually succeed; those who do not work hard to seize opportunities and ignore them can only be dominated by regret and mediocrity. Many times, it is opportunities that determine a person's life.

In the history of our country, there are stories of people who missed opportunities, lost their country, and regretted it too late, which have been taken as a warning to the world.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Cao Cao and Yuan Shao competed in the Central Plains. At the beginning, Cao Cao was far inferior to Yuan Shao. Yuan Shao not only had strong men and horses, and occupied wealthy areas such as Hebei, but he was also surrounded by talented people. Therefore, Yuan Shao ignored Cao Cao and thought he was safe. It was not until later that victory or defeat was uncertain, that I suddenly realized it was like facing an abyss.

Fortunately, many wise and resourceful people around him suggested good strategies to benefit the world, but he just "discussed without making a decision." For example, counselor Jushu proposed to him: welcome the emperor from the west and hold the emperor hostage to command the princes. He followed his plan, and later another counselor Guo Tu said: "The Han Dynasty is about to fall, and it will be difficult to revive it. It is not a good plan to welcome the emperor today, but to be controlled by him." In the end, Jushi persuaded hard: "If we don't decide early, , there must be a wise man who takes the lead. Don’t miss the opportunity, never tire of success, you must take advantage of it early.” Although Yuan Shao knew that the crisis was coming, he still hesitated and didn’t know which strategy to follow, and finally listened to Guo Tu’s opinion.

It was not until later that Cao Cao welcomed Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty to Xuchang, and held the emperor hostage to command the princes, and many states and counties surrendered. At this time, Yuan Shao regretted it. Yuan Shao was eventually destroyed by Cao Cao.

Opportunities may be visible to many people, but because everyone has different psychological attitudes, some seize them while others give up easily. Although many people have been running around all their lives, exhausted and bitter, they end up empty-handed and achieve nothing because they did not seize the opportunity. They look back on the past with emotion and regret, but when the opportunity passes, they will never come back. The key to seizing opportunities is action, not just fantasy. Action can achieve success. Utopia can only be said to be a mistake. This is an eye-catching truth.

The famous playwright Bernard Shaw once said a very philosophical saying: "People always blame luck for their current situation, but I don't believe in luck. I think everyone who gets ahead is They take the initiative to find luck for the goals they pursue; if they can’t find it, they create luck. ”

Indeed, opportunities do not come by looking forward to them, nor by waiting for them. In many cases, they have to. You have to discover, dig, and even create on your own. Opportunities never fall from the sky. Whether you can obtain opportunities and take advantage of them mainly depends on your work ability, determination to act, imagination, experience, and your motivation for your goals. In fact, sometimes, life does not only have one chance. The most rare thing is to have the courage to recognize your own weaknesses and look for a second chance after losing the first chance. Only by constantly exploring and striving to create can you achieve success. The completely different life experiences of these two American girls looking for work illustrate this point well.

The two girls are named Sylvia and Cindy.

Sylvia was born into a family with a very good background. Her father is a famous plastic surgeon in Boston and her mother is a professor at a famous university. Her family has helped her a lot, and for some people, she has every chance of realizing her ideals.

Sylvia’s ideal is to be an excellent show host. She fully believes that she has the talent to engage in this field of work, because she feels that when she gets along with others, everyone is willing to talk to her, and she is also willing to express her inner thoughts. She often said to others: "As long as someone can give me a chance to appear on TV, I believe I will succeed." After graduating from college, Sylvia waited for more than a year, but no one provided her with a job. A chance to be on TV. So she became anxious, depressed, and irritable. She kept praying to God to give her a chance. However, the opportunity never came.

Cindy’s situation is completely different from Sylvia’s.

Cindy's family conditions are very poor, her parents are very ordinary people, they are busy with life every day, and they don't care about Cindy at all. Cindy also has no fixed source of income from studying. So she worked during the day and went to night school at the University of California, Los Angeles. The only thing they have in common is that they have the same ideals. Cindy also wants to be a show host.

After graduation, Cindy did not wait endlessly like Sylvia. In order to find a career that met her wishes, she visited every radio and television station in Los Angeles. However, the answer she got everywhere disappointed her: "We only hire people with work experience." However, for Cindy, this requirement is so unreasonable. How can she gain experience without giving her a chance? Woolen cloth? Cindy argued with everyone who met her. Although Cindy got the same result as Sylvia at this time, she did not just wait unrealistically like Sylvia.

She began to create opportunities for herself. For several months, she carefully browsed various radio and television magazines, and she also asked someone to inquire about possible job opportunities.

Finally one day, she found an advertisement in the newspaper that excited her: There was a small TV station in North Dakota that was recruiting a weather forecast girl. North Dakota is in the northern part of the United States, where it is very cold and snows often. Cindy dislikes snow very much. However, she couldn't care about that much anymore, she urgently needed to get there. She thought: As long as it can be related to TV, I can do anything, let alone snow or hurricane.

So, after Cindy worked in North Dakota for two years, she accumulated a wealth of work experience. When Cindy applied for a job at Los Angeles TV station again, she found a position almost easily. A few years later, Cindy was promoted and became a famous TV host. Finally realized my dream.

From Cindy and Sylvia, we can clearly see the different life trajectories of winners and losers. Cindy continues to practice, accumulate experience, and create every possible opportunity for success for herself. Sylvia has been stuck in fantasy. She is waiting for the opportunity, hoping that a big pie will fall from the sky. However, time flew by and she accomplished nothing. Compared with Cindy, Sylvia is obviously the weakling in life.

As the saying goes, "Hard work pays off," and the same is true for opportunity. Opportunity also favors those who are willing. It only pays attention to those who have prepared minds, only favors those who know how to pursue it, and only likes those who have the courage to pursue it. The ideal doer. If you are full of food all day long and have no intention of doing anything, or if you are pessimistic and disheartened when encountering adversity, then opportunity will not automatically come to visit you. "Since ancient times, talents have suffered many hardships, but dandies have few great men." "Good opportunities cannot wait, and hard work can overcome nature." These poems tell us how important it is to seize opportunities and seek opportunities in our lives.

Therefore, a successful person always tries to move forward. They do not blame their parents or partners, but create opportunities and luck themselves. If you want to succeed, work hard to create opportunities, so waiting will only lead to missed opportunities.

Opportunities are never obtained by chance, but are captured with all-out effort in the step-by-step pursuit. If you want to get an opportunity, you must take the initiative to reach out your hand and grab it. You must take action and prepare for the opportunity. If you just sit and wait for opportunities to come to you, it is impossible. Many opportunities in life are created by yourself. If a person can not only take advantage of opportunities from the outside world, but also create opportunities by himself, then the possibility of his success will be reduced. It’s big, and it’s much more successful.

Therefore, successful people conclude: Opportunities can be gained by looking for them or lost by sitting on them. If we want to get it, we must actively look for opportunities, identify opportunities keenly, seize opportunities decisively, and utilize opportunities accurately. And we must not just place our hopes on those accidental events and passively wait for opportunities with a fluke mentality.

In real life, we often hear some people complain about their bad luck. They blame everyone, blame their parents for not creating good conditions for themselves, blame society for not providing them with good opportunities, and lament that they were not lucky enough. Sometimes, I lament that successful people have caught up with good times and good places... However, apart from complaining and being secretly bitter, they have not done anything for themselves. Such people will not create opportunities, but will only wait passively. However, failure belongs to these people.

God is always fair. It will give everyone opportunities, large and small, fairly. Some people are good at seizing opportunities and become successful, while some people do not care about every opportunity and achieve nothing in the end. .

Don’t let “opportunities be lost”, opportunities are crucial to people. The core of seizing opportunities lies in action, otherwise, no matter how good the opportunity is, it will be lost.

People often say: Success and failure are unreachable mountains. As long as you keep working hard, you can reach the top of the mountain. Others say that there is an insurmountable gap between success and failure. As long as you have the patience to pursue it, you can cross over to the other side.

In fact, the difference between success and failure is just a "thought". This "thought" is the change of concept, which means that we need to update traditional concepts, change our thinking mode in a timely and appropriate manner, correct our attitude towards life, and don't be dissatisfied. Don’t climb the mountain if it’s too high, don’t cross the ditch if it’s far and dangerous, don’t stop looking if there’s no opportunity, only by recognizing the situation clearly can you keep up with the times. Open your eyes wide, discover, and search. Never wait for opportunities to come your way. Use your own wisdom and persist in working hard towards your ideals and goals. Only by looking for opportunities can you have the opportunity to shake hands with success. Otherwise, you can only watch the opportunity quietly fly away.

What are the opportunities? It’s not that you wait for the rabbit, and then the rabbit comes, you catch it, and you succeed, but you have to rely on your own efforts, strive to improve your own quality, and strive to seize all opportunities to hone yourself and exercise yourself, and seize Opportunities to learn and improve will inevitably lead to more opportunities for success.

There is never a free lunch in this world, and there is no pie in the sky.

Comment: Opportunities are not given by others, but by yourself. Only by seizing the opportunity can you achieve success. People who just complain about the bad environment and unfair fate all day long will never reach the other side of success. Remember, there is no pie in the sky. Instead of complaining, it is better to take action and control your destiny in your own hands.