Your Daily Choice

I’m a night owl. Not the kind that stays up late into the wee hours, but the kind that sleeps for awhile then gets up in the wee hours. Sometimes it’s like now. Sleep for a few hours, up about midnight or one then back to sleep for a few more hours. Other times it’s sleep the night till 3 or 4. Then I’m usually up for the day.

It gives me time to think; to ponder; to gain some perspective while the rest of the world is quiet and sleeping.

Stephen Covey said, “Effective people are not problem-minded; they’re opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.”

Now there’s a thought to ponder.

Everyday we have problems. Everyday we have opportunities. Sometimes we decide to let our problems overwhelm us and steal time from our opportunities. Yes, we DO have a choice.

We are in complete control of who we feed.
Every day.
The problems or the opportunities.

THE PROBLEMS: (beware that many opportunities are cleverly disguised as problems)
Take a minute and clarify the problem.
Decide what the very next step is towards its solution.
Decide when to execute that step.
Execute it immediately or put it in your planner.
Forget about it.

THE OPPORTUNITIES: (beware that many opportunities are cleverly disguised as problems)
Take a minute clarify the opportunity.
Decide what the very next step is to take the best advantage of the opportunity.
Decide when to execute that step.
Execute it immediately or put it in your planner.
Forget about it.

Life is really just a series of decisions. How to solve problems and how to seize opportunities.

Which will you go after today?

Dennis Volz
Success in 10 Steps