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Give Me A Break!
Great empires have fallen for want of right opportunities. Many entrepreneurs have become history as they couldn’t get the right ‘break’. They have failed to make the best out of their abilities as they could never get a chance to perform. Opportunity for some people is luck while for others it is nothing but a positive result of their own plowing.
No matter how capable you are to achieve the highest of all the goals and overcome the insurmountable problems, if you don’t get the right opportunities, your abilities are as good as a well tilled land waiting for rain. To be able to climb a steep and high mountain, you need the right mountaineering skills, the right equipment and of course, a mountain.
So what do you do if the opportunity doesn’t strike your door? Someone very rightly said – create a door!
You keep complaining about the difficulties you face in growing your business. But how many times have you looked around for those fantastic breaks? Let me tell you something about the types of entrepreneurs there are in any industry – there are those who show their capabilities only when they get something to work on, for example people with technical or creative or administrative skills.
And then there are those whose goal is to expand their businesses and operations to earn more and get a better life. They are the ones who sooner or later reach seemingly unreachable goals and make their stories an inspiration for others. So coming back to the point, only by creating good opportunities for yourself would you move ahead in any business.
Rather than sitting aplomb and waiting for that breakthrough to happen by itself, move out to build your own breaks and harness your abilities.
How to create them?
Jack joined the home business industry with a dream to make it big. He was intelligent, persevering and committed to his goals. Months passed by and just nothing worked in his home business. He had a website to promote the business. The only visitors he would have on his site would be him and his wife! Even his friends rarely logged on. Jack wondered if he would ever be able to make it.
But there was a glaring mistake being committed by him. He cold called, sent emails and met new prospects to promote his business……. and left it at that. The end result was zilch! He never heard back from anyone – whether online or offline. The pressure started mounting.
As luck would have it, under enormous pressure, Jack started making the “real” efforts then onwards. He got his website technically optimized, started following up with the prospects on a timely basis, used emails and phone more often, even scheduled face to face meetings with the prospects and started maintaining a proper activity report. The results started precipitating gradually. People started calling back and replying his mails. He could even sense the difference in their tone. Within a few months Jack wasn’t only able to sponsor a good number of people and build a robust team, he also started receiving his commissions!
How to recognize them?
Often the opportunities are there but you are not able to recognize them. To enlighten those who always complain of lack of opportunities, I only have to say that breaks don’t come with a bang or a loud announcement. You have to have that instinct to recognize them. Unfortunately these breaks are transient and before you even acknowledge their presence, they are gone! Don’t they rightly say, ‘Make hay while the sun shines!’
The following could have been great sources of opportunities that you failed to recognize:
That seminar in your town for entrepreneurs like you, which you did not attend. (You could have learnt from the experiences shared by the leaders there.)
That prospect who had promised you a meeting which you forgot to follow up for. (It could have turned into business!)
You met a real dynamic guy in a social gathering and forgot to even exchange cards with him. (Blunder! He could have introduced you to so many others he knew…..you lost a whole network there!)
You undervalued the importance of training. (Training can help you discern the difference between an opportunity and a damp squib.
As a beginner, you do need your lessons on that.)
You did not respond to queries that you thought were bogus. (Relegate a query as bogus only after you have at least done the needful.)
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