OPPORTUNITY
Make hay while the sun shines, for time and tide
wait for no man!
MEANING OF
OPPORTUNITY
Ø
It means advantageous chance: a period of time when
the circumstances are right for doing something
Ø It means a
combination of favorable circumstances or situations: a favorable time or set
of circumstances for doing something. That is a time when a particular
situation makes it possible to do or achieve something
Were you privileged to be born as an eagle? Then you must refuse
to fly like a sparrow for it is ignominious and despicable for a lion to behave
like a goat and a cat to behave like a rat! It’s also ignominious and
despicable for a prince to behave like a servant!
DO
YOU KNOW THAT?
Ø The secret
of success in life is for a man to be ready for his 0pportunity when it comes!
Ø If you fail
to cast your hook/net into the river, you’ll fail to catch a fish! There’s
always enough fish in the river to catch when you’re ready to cast your net or hook
into it!
You cannot choose the road that leads to hell and
expect to end in heaven for he who chooses the beginning of the road, chooses
where it leads to! Hence your attitude toward opportunity can either lead to
failure or success!
Ø Some
opportunity disguise themselves as problem. See every problem as a
challenge/opportunity to challenge the challenger on his way to the throne for
mad and rough sea make a good sailor. Hence your attitude toward a particular
problem can either leads to negativity or positivity for obstacles are stepping
stone to success!
Ø It’s only
ignorant or lazy man who goes to stream early and come back with dirty water!
Hence early bird catches the worm!
Ø The sign on
the door of opportunity reads “now or never”
Ø He who lives
without discipline dies without honor!
Ø Men who are
resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough and
if they do not find them, they will make them!
Ø Opportunities don’t come often. Some
knock once while some knock occasionally. Only fools expect opportunity always for
your belief/expectation determines your action!
Ø Not knowing when the dawn will come,
open every door.
Ø There’s always a price to pay for every
opportunity, for nothing good come easy. Hence a big fish is caught with a big
bait! Cultivate the habit of saving for a rainy day!
Ø Opportunity can be wasted or lost
either by mistake or deliberately. Remember Judas Iscariot, Esau and Samson!
Ø Success
will smile at a man who makes good use of opportunity and refuses to sleep at
the corridor of failure!
Ø Opportunity never come to those who
wait, they are captured by those who dare to attack!
Ø Opportunities are transient but ignorance
mistakes them to be permanent!
Ø It is better to look for a black sheep when
the night is not yet for “There is time for everything under the sun”
Ø Men of the hours make good use of their
opportunities when they knock. That’s why they are privileged to be where they
are! Hence, men of the hours spend night and day getting there, for nothing
good come easy!
REMEMER
Ø A bird at
hand is better than a promised cock. So, it’s better to use the available than
to be expecting the expected that may not come to you throughout your life
time. Hence, delay and procrastination are dangerous!
Ø Any
grasshopper that has the opportunity to run and hide itself when it sees the
signs of rain and thunder but fails to do so suffers in cold weather
Ø Take risk
when opportunity knocks for the worst risk in life is failure to take risk!
Hence, it is better to step forward and fail than to live with failure for in
the journey of life one will always be remembered or be defined by the number
of time he or she step forward in life! Remember Abraham Lincoln and Thomas
Edison!
Ø A decision made when opportunity knocks will build a
mansion or thatch house for you tomorrow! Where you are today is as the result
of the decision or the foundation you took or laid yesterday respectively!
Ø Any time, day, month or year you missed can never be
gotten again. Take for instance, January 2014 has come and gone. No one will
see it again! Waste a day in a year, you’ll use the remaining part of the whole
year looking for it!
Ø Every single woman
who is still single at her old age had opportunity to get married when she was
still young but misused it believing that she was too scrumptious, luscious and
important that more suitors would still come until it became too late! As a
shining sun sets at the appropriate time, a beautiful flower with fantabulous
scent withers and dies at its appropriate time!
Ø Those who engage
themselves in drudgery (hard job) or in menial work and earn little wages while
some even beg for survival are those who misused their opportunities when it
knocked! Hence he who toys with his opportunity
to be catapulted to his place of greatness toys with his destiny
Hence, we may only remember days that are gone and may not be
privileged to have them again. So make good use of your time. This is the
theory of opportunity!
Please note that it’s not by size or age, but
by what you are capable of delivering to the world when opportunity knocks for
the old age of Methuselah has nothing to do with the Wisdom of Solomon!
I
don’t speak from conjecture, but from statistic for experience is the best
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