I just want to share this that I received yesterday in my email. I want you to read it several times and really internalize it. The first time I read it I was like: “Oh, how nice”, but then I read it again and I found a message for me… some kind of revelation, if you want to see it that way.

Many times I have watched how opportunities just pass by me… and I am like they say “a day late and a dollar short”… OK, so I don’t know exactly how it goes, but you get the point!

I have been one of those that “expect” the perfect timing to arrive, and they wait until they’re older, slimmer, richer, single, married, parents, empty-nesters, etc, etc! In the meantime, opportunities just wave goodbye.

If you have experienced the same, read this following quote carefully and apply it to your personal situation.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity. But you have to act on them if you’re going to be successful.

Distant pastures always look greener than those close at hand, but real opportunities are right where you are. You must simply take advantage of them when they appear. You can start where you are at any time.

Success is all around you. It’s not in your environment, it’s not in luck or chance, or in the help of others. Success is in yourself alone.

You don’t need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What you need is to use what you have. Learn to seize good fortune, for it is always around you.

You must go to success, it doesn’t come to you. Open your own doors to opportunity.

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