If we’re receptive enough and keep our eyes open we’ll find that it’s in this time of crisis that the best opportunities emerge.

Every Single Adversity Brings It Right Before You

When I injured myself I learned lot of patience and struggled finding new ways to be healthy. When I lost a close friend to death it was a chance to reflect on that loved one’s wonderful life and for our family to come together in a way never possible before. When my children do not listen to me in fact they are teaching me what happens when you lose sense and perspective. When I’ve lost my job it was the best time for reinventing things. When my wifey argues with me it is the biggest opportunity to become better by growing closer and inventing common grounds.

Why You Are Not Able To Identify Opportunity And Turn Into The Boiling Frog

We are sorrounded by the boiling frogs. The boiling frog is a common story which describes a frog slowly being boiled alive. It is told many times to point up about the varied trends where people should make themselves aware of slow change in case they suffer ultimate unwelcomed results. If the frog is placed suddenly in boiling water, it will jump out, but if it is placed in cold water which is gradually heated up, the poor frog will not make out any danger and will be boiled up to death. This ancedote symbolizes the inability or unwillingness of people to react to significant changes that occur gradually.

What happens Generally?

Just imagine yourself in a beautiful summer evening and you are sitting in your lovely garden. You are relaxing in a comfortable chair. Gentle sunlight, clear blue sky, a refreshing breeze. It’s quiet and everything is perfect.

Well, almost perfect. Your mind is still restless, as always. It won’t stop uselessly arguing a point to someone who is only in your head. The voice in your head is justifying something and trying to make you right and someone else wrong. The beauty of the moment is lost. by your attention being somewhere else. You pause in the rare moment when there is a ceasefire between the thoughts. If only my mind would be still and give me some peace, you think.

In the turbulence of your mind and the beauty of your garden, your end suddenly comes. It is unexpected moment and you are gone for ever – dead! Your body is disposed off. The chair remains empty covered with fallen leaves. All your belongings are ruthlessly used by someone else.

You already have an opportunity!

So what was really worthwhile in your life? Now that it is all over , what did you do that has benefited you? What would you do do differently if you could rewind? Fortunately there is no need to rewind. You are still alive With 20-20 hindsight you have an opportunity to live life more profitably.

But remember, not for long…

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. – John Lennon

In the midst of struggle and crisis there lies the greatest opportunities – if we dare to look.