Today when I was at the Gym an interesting topic struck in my mind. You might wonder why its Gym?! Lately, Gyms is been the source for inspiration like muse place for my blogs. I get all sorts of interesting pointers to blog and rant about. May be because of the valuable time spent alone to myself catching the dots to connect them making pretty lines which sometimes go unnoticed in our busy life.
My thought process was about fine moments rather occasions. Our life is filled with all sorts of fine moments with opportunities waiting for us to be grabbed.
During my workout, I happen to watch Women FIFA Cup soccer live match between Norway and Canada. Canada ladies missed out a close chance to convert a goal but they didn't give up. Within few minutes, they somehow took another attempt, came so close to the goal post and again almost got turned away by Norway defense but at that finite moment there was slight hole and one Canada player(named CHAPMAN) figured that out, took over the ball and made an attempt converted it a goal. She grabbed her finite moment by making it hers. Despite of their earlier lead, they lost to Norway by 2:1.
“He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.” (William James)
She just did the exact thing. She embraced her fine moment/opportunity and converted it as hers. Thats the point. You might have seen similar kind of moments like this one almost all the time in sports field. But if you see it closely, I think it happens to us in our everyday life too. We either overlook at them or never notice until it's all over to regret all about it.
Going back, I had encountered few of my own fine moments. Let me share one. Two months back my company wanted to start a project for a big client of us. Big money is on the roll and my company is at stack. My Boss really wanted this project to start and complete on time to meet our client promises. To start with, he asked me to prepare a rough project plan and schedule to find how much work is involved. I made one and presented to him.
The project plan clearly shows we need extra resource to complete it. So he planned to hire few folks to run the project including a lead for this new project. He knows very well, I am busy with other things so didn't bother asking me to lead it. But I didn't want to let go of it. I showed great potential for learning new things. So I thought about and decided to grab this opportunity. I went to him and convinced him that I can lead this new project despite of my other project commitments. He hesitated first for day or two but finally decided to go in my favor commenting "A known devil is better than an Unknown one" Right now, I been successfully leading the project hiring another person to help me out. If I didn't grabbed that fine moment or opportunity to express my interest, somebody would have taken that place and gained from it. By embracing that opportunity, I converted the occasion to my favor and even saved money to the company. I feel one's life is all about grabbing the right opportunity or occasion and making it great.
"Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.” (Orison Swett Marden)
As the above quote said, Don't just wait for xtraordinary opportunities, make any fine moment/occasion as yours by embracing it.
My thought process was about fine moments rather occasions. Our life is filled with all sorts of fine moments with opportunities waiting for us to be grabbed.
During my workout, I happen to watch Women FIFA Cup soccer live match between Norway and Canada. Canada ladies missed out a close chance to convert a goal but they didn't give up. Within few minutes, they somehow took another attempt, came so close to the goal post and again almost got turned away by Norway defense but at that finite moment there was slight hole and one Canada player(named CHAPMAN) figured that out, took over the ball and made an attempt converted it a goal. She grabbed her finite moment by making it hers. Despite of their earlier lead, they lost to Norway by 2:1.
“He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.” (William James)
She just did the exact thing. She embraced her fine moment/opportunity and converted it as hers. Thats the point. You might have seen similar kind of moments like this one almost all the time in sports field. But if you see it closely, I think it happens to us in our everyday life too. We either overlook at them or never notice until it's all over to regret all about it.
Going back, I had encountered few of my own fine moments. Let me share one. Two months back my company wanted to start a project for a big client of us. Big money is on the roll and my company is at stack. My Boss really wanted this project to start and complete on time to meet our client promises. To start with, he asked me to prepare a rough project plan and schedule to find how much work is involved. I made one and presented to him.
The project plan clearly shows we need extra resource to complete it. So he planned to hire few folks to run the project including a lead for this new project. He knows very well, I am busy with other things so didn't bother asking me to lead it. But I didn't want to let go of it. I showed great potential for learning new things. So I thought about and decided to grab this opportunity. I went to him and convinced him that I can lead this new project despite of my other project commitments. He hesitated first for day or two but finally decided to go in my favor commenting "A known devil is better than an Unknown one" Right now, I been successfully leading the project hiring another person to help me out. If I didn't grabbed that fine moment or opportunity to express my interest, somebody would have taken that place and gained from it. By embracing that opportunity, I converted the occasion to my favor and even saved money to the company. I feel one's life is all about grabbing the right opportunity or occasion and making it great.
"Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.” (Orison Swett Marden)
As the above quote said, Don't just wait for xtraordinary opportunities, make any fine moment/occasion as yours by embracing it.
