Opportunity

There are 3 types of people see an opportunity.

Weak People, waiting for the opportunity.
Strong People, creating opportunities.
Smart People, take advantage of the opportunity wisely.

For the weak, when the opportunity not comes, he will wait and wait until the opportunity came, When the opportunity still not came, he thought, well …. This is fate.

For the strong, when the opportunity not comes, he will use a variety of ways, creativity, and all the ability to create the opportunities come.

For the smart, he will take advantage of every opportunity, he realize that the opportunity is something value, and it’s not necessarily the opportunity came for the second time.

Indeed, on certain conditions, the emergence of opportunity sometimes needs time. We need to wait momentarily, but not with a passive attitude, otherwise, we are waiting for the opportunity with cautious attitude, proactive and full readiness.

Like a cat that will catch the mice, cats, can be patient, alert, readiness to wait a full opportunity when the mice to exit from the rat hole. Once the mice out, cats will directly catch the mice.

The success of cats kill mice is the process of doing a series of 3 things that I discuss above, the ability to wait for the opportunity, not passive but proactive, full readiness. Once the opportunities come, directly catch it.

Opportunity is one factor that must be held for those who want to develop themselves. Without the opportunity that is available, we may not be successful. Therefore when the opportunity has not come yet, we should try to create it, even in any trouble, if we have the stamina to continue to try, one day, the opportunity will come.

Exactly as said by most scientists Albert Enstein: IN THE MIDDLE OF DIFFICULLTY LIES OPPORTUNITIES . In every difficulty there is opportunity.
Make sure with all your creativity, hard work, fortitude and good intention we create the opportunity, take advantage of the opportunity to develop themselves as closely as possible and obtain a better life, more successful, meaningful and more!

Originally posted 2009-01-25 11:59:49. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

The Horseman

It was a bitter, cold evening. The old man’s beard was glazed by winter’s frost while he waited for a ride across the river. The wait seemed endless. His body became numb and stiff from the frigid north wind. He heard the faint, steady rhythm of approaching hooves galloping along the frozen path.

Anxiously, he watched as several horsemen rounded the bend. He let the first one pass by without an effort to get his attention. Then another passed by… and another. Finally, the last rider neared the spot where the old man sat like a snow statue. (more…)

Sand and Stone

A story tells that two friends were walking through the desert. During some point of the journey they had an argument, and one friend slapped the other one in the face. The one who got slappedwas hurt, but without saying anything, wrote in the sand: “TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SLAPPED ME IN THE FACE.”

They kept on walking until they found an oasis, where they decided to take a bath. The one, who had been slapped, got stuck in the mire and started drowning, but the friend saved him. After the friend recovered from the near drowning, he wrote on a stone: “TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SAVED MY LIFE.”

The friend who had slapped and saved his best friend asked him, “After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand and now, you write on a stone, why?”

The other friend replied: “When someone hurts us, we should write it down in sand where winds of forgiveness can erase it away. But, when someone does something good for us, we must engrave it in stone where no wind can ever erase it.”

Learn to write your hurts in the sand, and to carve your benefits in stone.

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Father, Son and a Crow

An old man was sitting in the courtyard of his house along with his son who had received a high education. Suddenly a crow perched on a wall of the house. The father asked the son: What is this? The son replied: It is a crow. After a little while the father again asked the son: What is this? The son said: It is a crow.

After a few minutes the father asked his son the third time: What is this? The son said: Father, I have just now told you that this is a crow. After a little while the old father again asked his son the fourth time: what is this?

By this time some expression of irritation was felt in the son’s tone when he rebuffed his father: Father! It is a crow, a crow. A little after the father again asked his son: What is this? This time the son replied to his father with a vein of temper. Father: You are always repeating the same question, although I have told you so many times that it is a crow. Are you not able to understand this?

The father went to his room and came back with an old diary. Opening a page he asked his son to read what was written. What the son read were the following words written in the diary:

Today my little son was sitting with me in the courtyard, when a crow came there. My son asked me twenty-five times what it was and I told him twenty-five times that it was a crow and I did not at all feel irritated. I rather felt affection for my innocent child.

The father then explained to his son the difference between a father’s and a son’s attitude. While you were a little child you asked me this question twenty-five times and I felt no irritation in replying to the question twenty-five times and when today I asked you the same question only five times, you felt irritated, annoyed and impatient with me.

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How Poor Are We Really

One day a father of a very wealthy family took his son on a trip to the country with the purpose of showing his son how the poor people live so he could be thankful for his wealth. They spent a couple of days and nights on the farm of what would be considered a very poor family.

On their return from their trip, the father asked his son, “How was the trip?” “It was great, Dad.” “Did you see how poor people can be?” the father asked. “Oh yeah” said the son. “So what did you learn from the trip?” asked the father.

The son answered, “I saw that we have one dog and they had four. We have a pool that reaches to the middle of our garden and they have a creek that has no end.” “We have imported lanterns in our garden and they have the stars at night.”
“Our patio reaches to the front yard and they have the whole horizon.” “We have a small piece of land to live on and they have fields that go beyond our sight.” “We have servants who serve us, but they serve others.” “We buy our food, but they grow theirs.” “We have walls around our property to protect us, they have friends to protect them.”

With this the boy’s father was speechless. Then his son added, “Thanks dad for showing me how poor we are.”

[from www.ummah.com
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