Shine With Grace

I have longed for it for so long.  Day and night I prayed for it to come true.

Nothing happened.  And I waited.

Then, out of the blue, an opportunity arised.  Not exactly how I wanted it to be, but had the most important elements in it. 

Did I take it? 

I am sorry,but, no.

I didn’t recognize it, the golden opportunity in disguise.

Or, I indeed recognised it, but gave up, with a very weak justification.

Why?

For subconsciously I was not prepared.  It’s too good to be true, I told myself.  It’s not going to work, I told myself.  I found lots of “evidence” to support my decision to give up.

We found what we look for.

When we tell ourselves that something is not going to work, it is not going to work. We drive ourselves to find fault in the situation, we amplify the hurdles.  When we look for the negatives, we get lots of negatives.

It all comes from within.  If the container has holes on it, water leaks.

That’s why so many people who have won the lottery turned bankrupt within very short period of time.  For they were not psychologically ready to have a comfortable relationship with the huge sum of money.  If you’ve trained (or, been trained) to be comfortable with say $10,000 cash, if you win a $1M lottery, you will very possibly spend and spend and over-spend until your cash level gets back to below $100,000.  It’s like a thermostat working. 

And this applies to all areas of lives.

If you wish to become a CEO, besides working hard climbing the corporate ladder, you have to develop yourself internally - ensure that you are comfortable to act, think and decide like a CEO, not a junior manager. 

Similarly, if you want to grow your own business, develop yourself into an entrepreneur - be comfortable in taking risk, in make decisions.  It is your employee mantallity that has to be put down.

Start small, but make sure you are in the right direction.

When you demonstrate that you can handle $10,000, you will gain the chance to manage $100,000.  When you can handle $100,000, you will gain the chance to manage $1M.  This is how the universe work.

So, back to my missed opportunity - what am I going to do with it?

“Nothing”, for the time being, apart form developing myself from within - and hopefully next time, if the opportunity ever arise again, I am strong enough to embrace it, instead of hiding from it.

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