Well said! This is the true essence of Luck = Preparation Plus Opportunity!

Even Napoleon Hill of Think & Grow Rich fame and Dr Maxwell Maltz of Psycho-Cybernetics fame had shared similar sentiment, as expressed here:

“Do not wait: the time will never be 'just right'. 

Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.” 

~ Napoleon Hill;

"What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. 

You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. 

None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. 

You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live - with your self-respect alive and growing." 

~ Dr Maxwell Maltz;

WHAT DO YOU SEE? [Hint: It's a graphic symbol!]

I have captured the following snapshots of the Fedex ad from Monday's issue of 'The Straits Times', Home Page, front page, for a specific purpose.

Can you see it?

The lesson from this simple exercise:

Opportunities are often right in front of you. The question is whether you can see them.

As America's most prolific inventor Thomas Edison once said:

"We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work"

Meanwhile, I also like to drive home my vital lessons from the late creativity maestro Dr Edward de Bono:

"Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic."

"The reason that many opportunities pass us by is a perceptual one: we do not recognise an opportunity for what it is. An opportunity exists only when we see it."

"Everyone is surrounded by opportunities. But they only exist once they have been seen. And they will only be seen if they are looked for."

I love the quote, for everything is connected to everything else, just as the Renaissance maestro Leonardo da Vinci asserted more than five centuries ago.

All you need is to open your eyes and ears with a sense of awe, discovery and wonder about everything - and anything - around you... places, things, people, events, and even ideas.

Henceforth, opportunities for learning and growth abound.

OPPORTUNITY: A LESSON FROM MOTHER NATURE

MY FAVOURITE CHINESE IDEOGRAPH