People often believe that life-changing opportunity can be very obvious, immediately they show up. People think that it can come in clarity and excitement and there is an immediate reward that gives you a sign from heaven that yes, this is it. Whereas in reality, many of the most important points in life do show up in a far less appealing way.
It can come in form of hard work, patience, it can even come in term of responsibility and quiet demand and you just have to keep going when everything is so uncertain. People are not really associated with this very well, they don't know how to use this as an opportunity because this kind of a thing feels slow and heavy. Sometimes it can even be discouraging.
Hard work really demands energy without immediate payoff. Patience asks you to wait without guarantee, responsibility ties you down when you might prefer freedom. Persistence sometimes forces you to continue on and on, even when things are not easy.
On the surface, there is nothing that is showing, nothing good and it doesn't even show like opportunity. Some are even obstacles by themselves but you just have to keep pushing and keep moving. People overlook this very very well.
Most people have been conditioned to see life changing opportunities in a drastic manner that is going to come with some big drama, there is going to be a sign from heaven and stuff like that. So they often gravitate towards opportunity that comes, they want to apply, they want to put in their effort immediately there is an opportunity. Some don't know how to actually sit down and continue consistently on their hard work till the result comes up.
The truth is, growth is not something that you are comfortable with, it can happen quietly and in an unnoticed moment. It can show up early in the morning when you choose to zipline over east but in the long run, you start to get better with life. Progress feels invincible and in the moment where you start to take responsibility ahead of avoiding it, resilience is built here and retransformation starts to begin.
Then you start to consider someone building a career from ground up. The early stages are really glamorous, it involves learning, failing, adapting and so on. And this comes with that recognition, no one is going to know that we are even doing all this but we just have to keep doing it.
What makes these opportunities so powerful is not just what they lead to but who they require you to become. Hard work, developed discipline, patience, strength in emotional control and that is what we should be aware of. Responsibility at every point in time, build trust and credibility.
Persistence will create resilience. All these qualities when you put them together, they turn ordinary effort into extraordinary results. There is also a psychological shift to this kind of a thing.
It is the ability to reframe discomfort. The ability to reframe discomfort can really go a long way in the way you handle challenges and cases of life. Instead of asking, why is this so hard? The question becomes, what is this even shaping me into? What am I becoming? Why would I even want to do this? What would this thing make me become at the end of the day? What changes? What value will I add to my life if I decide to take myself into this pruning and this experience? This does not mean that every difficulty is an opportunity.
No, some difficulties can even waste someone's life. Some difficulties, if you are not careful and know how to remove yourself from it, can ruin a man's life without any space of getting better. But when challenges align with growth, when effort is tied to something meaningful, and when persistence moves you forward, even though it might be slow, that is a sign that something valuable is going to come out of this.
The irony of this is that the opportunity most people want in the future, they are built on experience, they don't just come out of the blue like that. The whole thing is that I don't judge an opportunity by how it feels, it doesn't have to be a sign from heaven. It can just be consistency at work.
