– Opportunity is a chance or small moment that you can use to succeed.
– Most people wait for opportunities to arise – like waiting for your master/instructor to give you recommendation; waiting for your teacher to give extra credit; waiting for your parents to tell you what you can do better
– Great athletes CREATE opportunities by actively searching out and doing things towards their goals.
– Challenge yourself to create opportunities in class and at home by doing your best, being the best student/athlete you can be.
It may be difficult to seize an opportunity because we may have deep-rooted fears within all of us. That fear tends to paralyze us in ways that we don’t even know by making us feel comfortable where we are, so we don’t give ourselves the opportunity to push forward. We don’t allow ourselves to get to know a better version of who we are.
We may think other people will laugh at us or that they may think what we are foolish. We think so highly of others’ thoughts and opinions that they soon become the thoughts and opinions inside our own minds and this may discourage us from keep trying even though we know deep down inside, we really want to try our best to succeed.
Don’t feed into the lies. Tell yourself there is a way. Tell yourself you can and will succeed. Tell yourself YOUR decision matters because this is YOUR life. You decide what you can and cannot do.
There comes a moment when we have to make that one crucial decision for ourselves; when the decision to change hurts less than the decision to remain the same. As soon as we make this ONE decision, we simultaneously gain the courage to face our fears and become the creators of our own destiny. In this, we discover that each opportunity we take hold of becomes the world we always dreamed of.
“Everything you’ve ever wanted is sitting on the other side of fear.” – George Addair
