Opportunites

You have opportunities in your life.

These opportunities could be to make more money, get better clients, and have better relationships, be in better health, and more…

Something I learned from my mentors is the only way you reach these opportunities is if your capabilities are equal to your opportunities.

Meaning: If you want to build a million dollar a year business, but you’re making $100,000 a year, you can’t build a million dollar a year business with $100,000 capabilities.

So, in order to reach your opportunities, you have to make sure your capabilities equal your opportunities.

This might require technical skills, management skills, financial skills, marketing skills, etc.

But of course, what happens in people’s lives is this: Once you’ve built great capabilities, you still have the previous obligations.

So, an obligation minus the same level of commitment you had prior to growing your capabilities is a MESS.

 M = O – C. (A mess is an obligation minus a commitment.)

The life of the Entrepreneur is: Identify Opportunities > Build Capabilities > Reach Opportunities > Develop Bigger Capabilities > Reach Bigger Opportunities.

The hardest part of this is the success traps, and success traps are harder to get out of than failure traps. So, you can become successful financially and still hate what you’re doing because you’re OBLIGATED to things you no longer like.

What you need to do is make your opportunities equal to the capabilities, or else you have a MESS.

The question then is this: What can you do to make sure you don’t get into a MESS?

Well, one solution is to just stop the opportunity and say NO to it.

Then the possibility is you can increase your opportunities.