Identifying Opportunities
I was thinking today about identifying opportunities. We all get to see the world around us every day. Some of us take this as an opportunity to reflect on…

I was thinking today about identifying opportunities. We all get to
see the world around us every day. Some of us take this as an
opportunity to reflect on what is and what is not around us.
To identify opportunity requires a knowledge or desire for there to
be a different way to the one currently perceived. This is heightened by
what I call courage factors – things that compel one to change your
reality. This opportunity combined with courage is two sides of
entrepreneurship.
Depression comes from disconnecting from reality – i.e. seeing things
that can be different but having no mechanism by which to act on it. The
courage is missing – but also the mechanism by which to act. Doing
something – even little bits to create the mechanism in time creates the
release.
Supply creates demand and difference creates opportunity.
What makes us different from each other? It is the mind with which we
attack the problem.
There is no method to create opportunity other than thought, emotion
and expression of spirit that I know of, by which opportunities can be
created. These are however skills that can be learnt in order to get to
the point where opportunity is all around us.
There is many, many opportunities around us. Thinking about it
mathematically – the space is large. So we need to find the coordinates
that are most likely to fit with our courage and desires to act upon it.
These thoughts, if pursued – turn into reality. It is like a magnet that
creates an unbroken field once in alignment and everything that lies in
its path – follows those curves.
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