Opportunity is all around us just waiting to be found. In order to find it, you must open your eyes and be ready for it to appear. You have to be willing to walk away from what you already know and are comfortable with in order to pursue and see it. If you won’t allow yourself to be ready then it will never come knocking on your door. You will be blinded to it and stay the same. I think a lot of people are so stuck in the past or with what they already know that they won’t allow themselves to see anything new. They dispel opportunity from themselves. Finding opportunity means you must be willing to seek it out and ready to act fast when it comes to you. You can’t just wait for opportunity to find you. You must make your own opportunity.
One of my favorite authors, Orison Swett Marden, once said: Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities. If you won’t allow yourself to see great possibility in our world, then how will you ever find it? Open your eyes and be ready. It’s right before waiting on you to see it in a new light.
“Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.” Alexander Bell
“The freedom to move forward to new opportunities and to produce results comes from living in the present not the past” -Brian Koslow
Here is some opportunity for you:
Why do we settle? Is it for fear that we may not reach great heights? Perhaps a lack of conviction in our ability to succeed? Why do we allow ourselves to accept less than what we are worth? Is it that we believe that we do not deserve to have the best that there is in the world? 
I used to work for a company as an assembly technician that built filters. In the process, there was one step, that involved hand drilling these pieces of metal. Hand drilling, not an easy quick task. Imagine screwing in a screw with no drill into metal for 8 hours straight. To go through one of these things it took about 2-3 minutes a piece. So what did I do? I found a way to use a drill to replace hand drilling. Now, it took about 5 seconds per piece with much more precision than I could by hand. I could do what I did in a days work before, now in the matter of a few hours. I increased production and got more done on the bottom line. That’s streamlining. Interestingly enough, the manager stopped me from using the drill. They said that wasn’t the way they were instructed to do it. So you want me to hand drill these and take 24 times the amount of time it took me to do one with a drill? Seriously? There was no real technical answer he could give me as to why I should hand drill these. He said: “that is just how it had always been done.” It made no sense. I went back to work and got hand drilling. I couldn’t understand why this mattered. I left the company and found out that a few months later they employed drills to do the work. Imagine the dollars that had been wasted. Months of hand drilling that could have been replaced with drills. Had this company not looked at its processes, it might still be wasting money paying extra workers to hand drill these filters. 
If you were driving along and saw this sign what would you think? A pile of manure or gold? It’s all in the eye of the beholder. Are you the kind of person that sees something like this and thinks… huh… I wonder what I could create from that? 
