Sometimes you have to be completely silent in order to hear opportunity’s knock. Turn off the news reporting the disaster of the moment, quiet your mind from the everyday worries and problems, tune out the negative comments of co-workers and friends, and just… listen. Do you hear the soft knocking? Open up; opportunity has something to show you.

Many times we can race through our lives thinking that opportunity will smack us in the face when the time is right. We live in a time of LOUDness—loud music, loud cars, loud neighbors. Sometimes opportunity doesn’t knock loudly, though, and there is no smack in the face. Rather it whispers, alludes, or insinuates. It lightly knocks instead of banging down your door. If you are too busy caught up in the chaos of life, you can miss it in a beat.

Learn to recognize opportunity. In order to seize opportunity, you must first recognize it. That is difficult if you are looking for opportunity in only one shape or form. Let’s say that you are trying to increase your salary and are frustrated that the fruits of your efforts have not resulted in any extra moola.

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