Listen CAREFULLY! Opportunity IS Available!

Have you ever been driving and then "wake up" (though you never fell asleep) and realized that you had covered a lot more miles than you thought? 

Have you ever read something - over time - ten, twenty or even thirty times and, on the thirty-first read you discover something in the exact same words and sentences that you never noticed before?

In the same way, I noticed recently that I had listened to a commercial on television several times before I "noticed" or "heard" something for the first time...even though I had actually heard it several times before. Do you understand what I mean?

One day, while watching this commercial, a certain phrase "jumped out" at me almost as if the volume had been turned up on that one phrase so that I would notice. 

The commercial is for an on-line University and it features someone (President of this University? Professor at this University?) talking to what appears to be a graduating class. Among several things that this person says here is what finally got my attention:  "The world in which we live equally distributes talent but it doesn't equally distribute opportunity, and paths are not always the same."

Take a good look at that quote and see if you actually agree with what is being said.

For me, it's a resounding "NO!"

In my opinion, the only part of that statement that has any truth in it is the very last part: "...and paths are not always the same." 

Think on this: Do you really believe that TALENT is distributed equally?  No matter how hard you want to believe that to be true and no matter how often a parent may try to convince their children that this is true, IT IS NOT TRUE!

 TALENT is NOT distributed equally! This is pure common sense to know this and to see this everywhere you look. It is a FACT that some people are more talented than others! 

Think on this: If talent was equally distributed then every person that ever tried out for a sports team would end up as a professional athlete! Every person that THOUGHT they could sing would actually be able to become a professional singer as they also won every singing competition that ever existed!

How would you decide the winner in ANY competition if talent were equally distributed in our world? 

You could not and that statement is an absolute fallacy. 

As is the phrase that follows: "...but it doesn't equally distribute opportunity.."

Honestly, what a HORRIBLE and even DAMAGING message to say to anyone!

Think on this:  OPPORTUNITY IS distributed equally in our world. Oh, there may be draw backs and road blocks. It may be hidden behind those drawbacks and road blocks but, friend, OPPORTUNITY is equally available to EVERY one and ANY one!

How hopeless the message that is shared that says that opportunity is NOT available to you, regardless of who you are or what circumstances in which you find yourself. 

Listen to me, friend and HEAR THE TRUTH! Though you may not be as talented as others you can still hold your head up with the knowledge and understanding that, indeed, OPPORTUNITY is equally available to you!

What do you read in that graphic? "Opportunity Is Nowhere" or "Opportunity Is Now Here"?

Do NOT listen to anyone that would tell you that opportunity is nowhere to be found. RID YOURSELF of that type of thinking and, honestly, those that would promote such. Because friend, the fact is that OPPORTUNITY IS NOW HERE each and every day!

That fact being true (and it is!) allows you to do the following...

"Make it an AWESOME day! (Who else is going to do it for you?)"

Mike

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