How to Open up a New Window of Opportunity at Any Time
Sometimes a window of opportunity opens up, and we have to react within this time window to take the chance. But what if we could open our own windows of opportunity at any time?
Suppose we really only have this one life. Let’s leave aside the possibility that there might be something like a rebirth or that science might find a way to prolong our lives infinitely. Then what does that mean for you and me?
It means that our time is limited, and time is the most precious commodity we have.
This life is definitely too precious to spend it on suffering and dissatisfaction. We should actively fight to get what we want. We should do everything possible to be happy in our limited time on earth.
What makes us happy may mean something different in detail for each of us, but whatever it is, it does not come by itself.
Life offers us opportunities that we can take or ignore. The chances we ignore are mostly chances we do not even notice. If we do not go through the world with open eyes, we are blind to most good opportunities.
Tragically, some opportunities only happen once and don’t come back if we don’t take them within a specific time frame. Some people say that life, in general, is a sequence of missed opportunities. This view of things is quite depressing.
So instead of mourning the missed chances, we should ask ourselves how we can create new opportunities to improve our lives.
If we open a window of opportunity ourselves, it is much easier to use the time slot in which we have to act.
How do you open a window of opportunity?
The answer is surprisingly simple: Act!
Everything we are today is the result of our actions in the past. It is therefore logical that our future will be the result of our actions today. One action is all we need to open a new window of opportunity for us.
If you wish to quit your job and make a living by writing books, you can either go on daydreaming forever and do nothing or open a text document and write down the first sentences of your story. Next, you google how to publish a book in self-publishing and start learning all about it.
If you want to improve your health because you want to see your children and grandchildren grow up, you can hate yourself for being in such bad shape, or you can put on your running shoes, and for the first time in years, just run and see how far you get. When you return home, you put down binding training days in your calendar for the next few months and tell all your friends that you are running again. Ask them to motivate you and ask you again and again how your training is going.
A thousand other examples could be possible, but you see the pattern. Take the first step immediately, without thinking about what to do next. Then plan what you want to do next to continue on your new path.
The first, initial act is essential. Most dreams that we never realize fail because we overthink at the beginning instead of just doing something. Planning is important, but you can only build a plan on first experiences.
Only when you have written the first pages of your book can you estimate how long it will take you to write a whole book, and only then will you realize what skills you still lack.
Without having run once, you cannot create a training plan. How will you know how fit you are if you have not tested it with a first run? Maybe you experience pain somewhere during this run, which you should have checked with your doctor, or make other experiences that you could never make when planning at your desk, but which are essential for your further way.
Each of your idols has created its own Windows of opportunity. Do it like them.
Every writer, athlete, actor, blogger, businessman or politician you admire has taken his or her fate into his or her own hands one day and made the first step on the journey that has brought them to where they are today. These people opened their Window of Opportunity and took the chance that came with it.
Could they have failed? Of course, they could have. For everyone who made it, thousands failed. But that’s only half the truth. Even those who have made it have failed many times before with other things. Failures could not stop them. They tried again and again until they finally succeeded. If they had never started or had given up at some point, you wouldn’t be able to look up to them today.
There is nothing that separates you and me from your idols, except how far they have come on their path. We can get as far along the way as they have. But we have to start. And once we do, we have to keep going no matter what setbacks we face.
Life is too short to be discouraged by setbacks. Somewhere on the road ahead, there may be a pot of gold waiting for us. Why shouldn’t we go and get it? When we reach our destination, we forget all the pain and effort we had to go through to get there.
Your idols are nothing special. They just did something special.
You can be like them by doing something special. The moment you set out to find your happiness, you are already well ahead of over ninety percent of all people, because most never take the first step.
You decide every second how your further life will proceed. Don’t let anyone tell you that you have no power. You have the ability to change your life. Use that power.
René Junge a published author writing on ILLUMINATION.
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