Opportunity is Knocking at Your Door!

I do not know wether you have a problem with unbidden guests or not, but I can tell that it is somewhat uncomfortable, even a bit awkward if unexpected things happen all of a sudden. But how do we know if a good or a bad thing awaits us? Does it depend on our personality, exempli gratia if we are pessimists we rather expect bad things? Optimists on the other hand have a higher tendency to expecting good things to happen; ataractic people merely shrug once and turn around without a concern at all. We obviously all reveal and show different reactions to sudden strikes, a different crisis management depending on our character as well as the issue assaulting us. Well, I remember those kind of people who share a dumb and surreal dogma with the world, they call it "preparing for the worst, and hoping for the best" (I merely consider that a justification for being pessimistic and a lame excuse for infesting the world with a negative mindset and dark thoughts). Did you ever think about that quote, anecdote, or naive statement, or whatever you want to call it? – But hey, that is not the subject matter, let them pessimists be as they wish, cut me some slack and let’s move on to another important aspect of mastering this life of ours: PREPARATION!

Whenever I am facing challenges and need to be aware of whatever it is to come a quote of former U.S. president George W. Bush always crosses my mind: "Our military is powerful...and it’s prepared!" What does it mean to be prepared? Doesn’t it mean that we are ready for a certain task, ready for a challenge, ready for a job; or how Clifford Harris said it wisely: „Boy, I’m ready for whatever!“ Being ready, being prepared, wow, does it not grant us security and relaxation, peace of mind, and a deep satisfaction that we are ready, that we are prepared for something? If you look back in time when you graduated high school, were you prepared when you took your final examinations? Was that not a great feeling, walking into the room being prepared? Was that not a great thing at all that rewarded you in the end?

Being prepared, what an amazing feeling, what a great thing. You should be woken up by this message, and take a steadily good preparation into consideration for any situation in your life - be aware, be ready, be prepared. Be prepared without expecting the worst things to happen, be prepared in a sense that you are ready to kick some ass at whatever it is, anytime, anywhere. That you are prepared not only when bad things show up, but also when good things show up, because if you take blog one and two into consideration and do what Langston Hughes tells us, if you "hold fast to dreams," if you persevere, and if you do it with such a great heart that all this hustle and love for your dreams still gives you the opportunity to live every moment of your life, to smell an overdose of life everytime you take a deep breath, to inhale vitality second after second, to seize day after day, then you better be prepared, because I can guarantee you, that opportunity will be knocking at your door sooner or later. Let it be the special someone you’ve been waiting for all your life, the job you always wanted to have, redemption for vast mistakes in the past, or a dream coming true, if you have the heart and relentless perseverance, and if you live your life true and to the fullest, then it is only a matter of time until opportunity is knocking at your door. And all I’m trying to suggest is: when that happens, when opportunity is knocking at your door...you better BE PREPARED!

How can you prepare yourself for that to happen? With a great heart, and great devotion. If you work on your dreams day and night, people tell you how dumb it is to chase your dreams, but you do it anyways because you got it in your heart, if you give it your all, then the day will come sooner or later when you hear the bell ring, open the door, and opportunity is asking you: "Hey there, are you prepared?" The day will come, when all the hard work will pay off, when all the blood, the sweat, and the tears made sense, for it pushed you harder and further to stay on it. In this particular moment of the discourse it is manditory to quote Mr. Mathers’ song Lose Yourself in this context, where Marshall wisely says: "If you had one shot, one opportunity, to seize everything you’ve ever wanted - would you capture, or just let it slip?"

What would you do? Would you be occupied when opportunity is knocking at your door? Or will you be prepared? The key to success is in your heart, find it, and unlock those doors in your life, but most importantly, unlock your own door and be prepared, when...

...opportunity is knocking at your door!!!