We, too often, proclaim that we are working on projects because…. blah blah blah….

Our bosses are too busy to do it themselves, our husbands asked us to, our church asked us to, we felt compelled…..

But isn’t it really… an opportunity?  An opportunity to be more than they said we were going to be?  An opportunity to prove to others what we already know to be true? Not because we care what they think, but because the victory is apparent!

Opportunities tend to disguise themselves. And the enemy tends to validate our negative thoughts about ourselves to be true….

My sister has been having a hard time at work. The work is fine… she’s doing what she was taught to do… and what she is good at.  There are obstacles, as is true in any field of work/career.  Just because they may be “small” obstacles does not eliminate the fact that they are there.  They are in her way.  They are troublesome and frustrating.   She thinks, day and night, how can she get through them?   And then she does! In the most camouflaged way, she does!  She’s on a trip! It’s last minute… it’s inconvenient… it’s frustrating… but she’s on a trip.   To do what her boss couldn’t do… whatever his reasons… and she NAILS it.

It’s not a “society worthy NOTABLE win”… but she wins!  The client is happy, her boss is happy, her co-workers go on jealously happy (supposedly).  At the end of the week, she knows… she did it!  She DID it! 

Fast forward to the future…. does her boss’s boss notice her win?  Does her boss’s boss’s boss notice her win?  Who knows!?!?  SHE knows!!!! Her family knows!  Now SHE is taking the next level in HER success!  She has the motivation!  She now how the proof of her capabilities!   Not because someone noticed it.  Not because she just made 10 random people rich in her talents….. but because SHE knows that SHE is amazing!  She is amazing! And thus begins he next chapter.

There is opportunity around every corner, next to every decision.  It’s up to us to take advantage of what that opportunity can support while we strive to get to the next level!

Bye for now,

RR