In life what is considered to be the scarcest commodity is opportunity. Many times when one has the privilege of chatting with people about life you realise what they are all waiting for is that big break, that singular opportunity that would turn their lives around. They spend time daydreaming, expecting the opportunity to land on them like ripe mango off the tree. Many people have lost countless opportunities because they are waiting for that singular opportunity. Some have even wasted a fortune looking for that same opportunity outside the shores of their country. No doubt opportunity must be truly scarce according to them, because if it is not scarce in your nation you cannot be searching for it in another nation where they think there is an abundance of it. How do you find what you do not know? How do you take advantage of what you cannot recognise? That is a million dollar question begging for answers. That is where majority of the people have found themselves like blind men leading other blind men; you can perceive that their level of ignorance is second to none. Little wonder why only few people are successful in life and majority are languishing in poverty or slaving the remaining days of their lives out. Without a change of understanding, without a rude awakening as to what opportunities truly are, they will all end their lives looking for that proverbial opportunity that never exists.
Now what are the endless opportunities? Every problem you see and identify is an opportunity; it becomes your opportunity when you take responsibility for proffering solution to it. Every product or service that you see that are in existence is your opportunity because they are begging for change. Any product or service that you can see has become obsolete the moment they arrive at the marketplace. It becomes your opportunity when you take responsibility for improving on it. Without much ado, you will bear me witness that what we have going for us is nothing short of endless opportunities and possibilities. Every process of conversion from their raw state to your personal opportunity is always filled with supposedly challenges, but that is the least of your problem. Most people are dissipating energy on what is not opportunity every day and they do not know. What is most important to you is the identification and recognition of what opportunity is. With this understanding, processing opportunity becomes easy. The most important lesson a man can be taught in life is this, having this understanding of what opportunity is. The purpose of going to school and having a career should be this. No man or woman with this understanding can ever be a burden to their society. They are always a blessing, they are celebrated and appreciated, and they are honored amongst their peers. This should be thereason for living. There is no man that does not have endless opportunity staring them in the face all day long. And there is so much joy and peace when you wake up every day knowing you are the solution to other people’s problems, or you are causing a change positively in your world. You can never run out of opportunity because you can never run out of problems. My prayer for you this season is that the good Lord will open your eyes to recognise the opportunities around you and grant you the grace to maximise them in Jesus name. Remain blessed.
CHUKS OLUIGBO
