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"Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die...Still you wait and will not try- A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly."

We are given opportunities almost everyday. An opportunity to change something bad about ourselves, to make something right, to meet someone new, to learn, to teach, to see life from a different angle, to make the most out of the day, to dream about tomorrow. Every once in a while an opportunity comes along and you have a choice, a bigger harder decision than most because the opportunity invokes change. It requires taking a leap of faith and stepping outside of your comfort zone. Sometimes in the midst of living everyday opportunities we find ourselves leading up to a much bigger opportunity. We cant see the future and we don't know all that it holds for us- we are all given different paths to choose from and which one we choose dictates tomorrow...where we will be, what we will be doing-who we will be. Do we stay where we are because of comfort or do we take the key, open the door and with eyes wide shut leap because the possibilities that are possible are endless. The decision in itself is hard and over thinking it only makes it harder. It should be easy, because well, it's easy. We complicate it, we make it harder because there are obstacles in the way, nothing of which we can't handle. Most of the time when life offers you something great it comes with great sacrifice- it's almost an easy decision and then all of the sudden it's not, it's more difficult because we don't know...we don't know anything. What if- everyone who ever became "someone" stopped just short of making their life happen because they stopped to "think" and that moment, that opportunity passed them by. They let others make their decisions and dictate who they were to be...That's just it, we don't have to ask, what if-because they didn't, they made that choice, they took that risk, they shut their ears to the rest of the world, they closed their eyes, they opened the door, they entered and they made their mark...At the time, I guarantee you they didn't see all the potential there was because it was missing the most important element...it was missing them. We sometimes can't see the whole picture, it's not because we don't try our best to- I think that maybe, just maybe it's because it's missing something...maybe that something is me or you?!?!

“You are now at a crossroads. This is your opportunity to make the most important decision you will ever make. Forget your past. Who are you now? Who have you decided you really are now? Don't think about who you have been. Who are you now? Who have you decided to become? Make this decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully.”

“Your regrets aren't what you did, but what you didn't do. So I take every opportunity.”

“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”