Predicting Opportunity

This week's special guest Lance Cottrell is awesome! I consider this a unique opportunity with near 100% odds of perspective-changing takeaways.

Background and origin story: I booked a call with Lance Cottrell because I saw a link to “book a call with Lance Cottrell”

Why not?

What I didn’t realize until sitting on a Zoom in a T-shirt and face-to-face with Lance was that this was a rare “I got lucky” type opportunity and I did nothing to prepare for it. Example: no description of my company, no pitch deck, wearing a ‘grabbed without a 2nd thought’ black T from my closet.

This realization hit around the 15-minute mark. I’m an empath and the look on Lance’s face said “I have better things I could be doing.” To Lances credit, he was awesome all the way through and said nothing but nice things.

I’m leveraging this fail story to set the stage for Lance to share his well-experienced thoughts, advice, and perspective with my audience. From my perspective, this situation was me falling off my bike, skinning my knee, and getting back up on the bike again = expedited my learning.

Deep Thought: Predicting Opportunity:

My opener to this deeper thought is in predicting opportunity. I consider this statement a standard human opinion and a standard flaw human perspective. Example: if success were easy and predictable, most people would be successful in easy and predictable ways.

Work ethic:?

I’m sharing this work ethic thought as the American “go-to” solution. The fails of work ethic hits home a bit and knowing work ethic alone won’t create opportunity personally feels disappointing. Example: Some of the hardest working construction workers I knew, died broke and crippled = extreme work ethic did not create extreme opportunity.??

Out of nowhere Luck:?

I coach boxing and in boxing, great plans tend to fail the moment the bell rings. On the other side, great opportunities in boxing tend to come out of nowhere. I perceive this opening personal story and its chance call with Lance as 1 of these out-nowhere opportunities. Metaphorical example: Going out for a run and meeting the president out walking his dog. What would you say?

Doing nothing would be the most statistically poor choice = should do something. What is that something? What to do when the opportunity falls in your lap and there’s no time to think.

Join us Friday 11/8 at 12pm (EST) to hear Lance share his unique and well experienced insight!