Opportunities To You
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Do you have a problem? A problem of
opportunity. Either too much or lack of opportunities can create some
challenges for you. Too much opportunities create challenges of choosing the
right one. Lack of opportunity causes the challenges of nothing to choose from,
hence choosing whichever that come.
I'm assuming that you would like to attract as
many opportunities as you can. Comparing the challenge of too many
opportunities and lack of opportunities, I prefer to have the challenge of
having too many opportunity. To be more specific, many "right" opportunities.
Having many "right" opportunities
doesn't take away the headache of choosing. It does takes away the problem of
choosing the "wrong" one. The benefit of many "right"
opportunities is that mostly they will suit you.
How do you attract the right opportunities?
How do you attract the right people presenting you the right offer?
1. Know Thyself
Know your strengths, weaknesses, passions,
dislikes etc helps to cut down the number of wrong opportunities.
Being clear with what you love prevent you
from getting into opportunities that don't suit you. I was once flooded with
opportunities, and took part in some of them. Eventually I found out that most
didn't suit me. I didn't have the passion to drive the opportunities. In the
end, I came back to my core passion - inspiring others.
Understand your strengths and weaknesses
clearly helps you to choose the right opportunities and be in the right seat. I
had an opportunity to help a company design a website. Though I had the basic
skill of designing a website, I wasn't professional enough to make money from
it. I did make the mistake of saying 'yes'. However, I couldn't deliver after 2
months, so I told the truth that I couldn't do it. But it wasted 2 months of everyone's
time.
Be clear about YOU, it helps to attract
opportunities that will suit you only. You will learn to turn a blind eye to
those unsuitable opportunities. It helps cut down unnecessary effort and time.
You will be in tune to spot those opportunities that are suitable to you only.
2. Be Consistent
Consistency is the key to marketing. It's the
key to brand yourself as well. Influential and successful people prefer to pass
opportunities to someone whom they feel will continue doing what they are doing
for the next 10 years.
Successful people tend to avoid those who keep
moving onto new things. A simple illustration will be an employer interviewing
someone who job-hop every 3 months. Though there are many interpretation of the
job-hopping, but one of them are inconsistency. Employers wouldn't want to hire
someone who is inconsistent.
It takes time for others to notice your value.
It takes a while for others to start talking about you. Allow time to be your
friend. Being consistent builds on what you have already been working on. Look
at every successful people in the world, they are consistent for decades. You
don't hear Bill Gates working on a new business every year. Or Steve Jobs
putting his hands around the oil industry. They are consistent with what they
do, building a brand for themselves. Those opportunities that they embark on
are the ones that suits them them most.
3. Be Reliable
This is a very important key to attracting the
"right" opportunities. The "right" opportunities comes to
those who are most reliable. The "wrong" opportunities goes to
anyone. When someone presents an opportunity to you, he/she will likely heard
or knew that you are reliable to deliver the result.
No one will present a good opportunity to
someone who is unreliable and changes his/her mind constantly. You wouldn't
want to work with someone like that too, right?
4. Attain Mastery
This key is related to Being
Consistent. Consistency with ever
improvement allows you to gain mastery in a skill. Attaining mastery in a skill
which will definitely attracts the right opportunity. When you are a master of
an area that can add value to others, opportunities will flock to you.
A friend who's a master in architect started
his own firm this year. Immediately, he attracted many contracts when the news
got out.
People want to work with people who are
skillful. Masters want to collaborate with other masters. You attract other
masters to want to work with you by becoming a master yourself. Mastery can be
gained by constantly improving and upgrading yourself.
5. Take Action
Cultivate a habit of taking massive action on
your ideas. Brand yourself to be someone who makes things happen. Always
deliver what you say. When you are constantly taking action, the right
opportunities will come.
Here I introduce the principle of Precession.
This is a principle founded by Buckminster Fuller. It simple means ripples are
created when an object is in motion. With this principle, taking massive action
creates ripples around you, in return you attract the right opportunities.
6. Showing Up
Hiding yourself in a closet is not going to
help even if you are the best person in the world to do the job. Go out to
networking events, attend seminars, interact with others, get yourself on the
web etc.
When no one knows that you are good, it's
pointless. Get others to see you and know you. Be visible in events, create
mindshare in others. Out of sight, out of mind. When others don't see you, they
won't think of you.
By showing up, you create opportunities for
others to bring the right opportunities to you.
7. Money As The Least
Priority
Turn away from money-making opportunities. Of
course, for any opportunity to work, it has to generate profit. There's no
point doing it if it doesn't. But making money shouldn't be the first priority,
it should be the last.
Putting money-making as the top list can
create many opportunities but the wrong opportunities. Do a search on the web,
there are many money-making opportunities, promising making a 4 or 5 figures
sum with only couple of hours effort a week. 99% of them are the
"wrong" opportunities.
You wouldn't want to be involve in those,
would you? I'm assuming what you want are those "right"
opportunities. So get money out of the way. When you choose opportunities based
on money as your top list, chances are you are going round in circle. The
result - you never get what you want, and you are still as lost as before.
With all the years of experience, these 7 ways
are keeping me on track in my journey, attracting the right opportunities to me
at the right time. Use these as a reference, and you can attract the right
opportunities too.
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Opportunities To You
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