Opportunity.

You can’t win today’s game with yesterday’s home runs

Stay fit, focused and connected.

Opportunity has the tendency to be viewed as “luck”. Sometimes opportunities just fall out of the sky and create wealth and fame overnight. That’s just the way it goes. Some people just have all the luck in the world.

While sometimes that happens, it is the exception. Opportunities are only valuable if you have the timing, skill and resources to act on them.

We have unlimited opportunities every day but what turns an opportunity into value is the individual who has already put in the effort to be stable enough to capitalize on the moment.

This isn’t to say that you have to be bulletproof and tactical at every moment. I just mean that in order to create value from an opportunity, you have the ability to do so.

What does it look like to have that ability? Someone has to have a firm foundation, an understanding of how they operate and the hard skills to do something about it.

Here’s an example.

A sports team has a debacle and is forced to can a handful of players at the same time. Now they have to fill the position quickly.

Who are they going to look at? The people who haven’t stopped training. The ones who are still focused and practiced. The people that they already know about. These candidates are in shape, with tried and true abilities, and are well connected.

What does that look like in your world? You don’t have to be an elite athlete but “you can’t win today’s game with yesterday’s homer runs.”

You do, however, have to be ready. As the opportunities come and go, it is wise to be in a position to be able to act when able and pass when necessary and that doesn’t happen if you aren’t prepared.