Choose Doors That Are Open
Some people spend all their energy trying to force open closed doors, without even noticing one that is standing wide open nearby.
Taking opportunities that are offered you is a far quicker route to success.
Alan Cohen asked the question "How would I be doing this differently if I were willing to let it be easy?" A lot of us were taught that life is hard work and that anything worth doing has to be difficult..
Life doesn't have to be like that.
You don't have to get bloody knuckles bashing at closed doors.
If you look around and can be open to the opportunities that come your way you can just walk easily through an open door without all that pain.
I've never much liked the movie Forrest Gump, but the other day it was on and I saw it in a different light.
Forrest doesn't go out looking for success.
He just uses common sense.
He flows with life and simply walks through any doors that are open to him.
He doesn't create opportunities for himself, but just makes the best of the ones that come his way.
One of the secrets of life is to walk through doors that are open.
It doesn't have to be a painful struggle.
If you look out for opportunities that present themselves to you then success can come as part of the flow of life rather than being a hard-won trophy.
Coaching Those of us who strive to succeed come across a fair number of closed doors and there is nothing wrong with beating them down, when necessary.
However don't think that because something looks easy it is not worth pursuing.
There is something to be said for taking opportunities that come your way easily.
You don't have to fight for everything.
Just make the best of open doors that offer themselves.
Coaching Question Are you choosing doors that are open or closed? Daily Action Look out for opportunities that are presented to you and make the most of them.
Quotes "I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
" Mark Twain "Nothing is so often irretrievably missed as a daily opportunity.
" Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach "Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards.
" William Arthur Ward
Taking opportunities that are offered you is a far quicker route to success.
Alan Cohen asked the question "How would I be doing this differently if I were willing to let it be easy?" A lot of us were taught that life is hard work and that anything worth doing has to be difficult..
Life doesn't have to be like that.
You don't have to get bloody knuckles bashing at closed doors.
If you look around and can be open to the opportunities that come your way you can just walk easily through an open door without all that pain.
I've never much liked the movie Forrest Gump, but the other day it was on and I saw it in a different light.
Forrest doesn't go out looking for success.
He just uses common sense.
He flows with life and simply walks through any doors that are open to him.
He doesn't create opportunities for himself, but just makes the best of the ones that come his way.
One of the secrets of life is to walk through doors that are open.
It doesn't have to be a painful struggle.
If you look out for opportunities that present themselves to you then success can come as part of the flow of life rather than being a hard-won trophy.
Coaching Those of us who strive to succeed come across a fair number of closed doors and there is nothing wrong with beating them down, when necessary.
However don't think that because something looks easy it is not worth pursuing.
There is something to be said for taking opportunities that come your way easily.
You don't have to fight for everything.
Just make the best of open doors that offer themselves.
Coaching Question Are you choosing doors that are open or closed? Daily Action Look out for opportunities that are presented to you and make the most of them.
Quotes "I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
" Mark Twain "Nothing is so often irretrievably missed as a daily opportunity.
" Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach "Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards.
" William Arthur Ward
