Don't let missed opportunities deny you new ones

​If I'm not careful, I can get focused on missed opportunities.

I can get focused on the opportunities denied to me because someone else did or didn't do something to make an opportunity a reality in my life. I can get focused on life circumstances that refuse to align more in my favor.

If I'm not careful, in processing missed opportunities, I can turn myself into a victim of missed opportunities.

I can turn myself in to someone who wasn't enough. The subtle voices of insecurity and doubt that live just beneath my every breath suddenly have full control of every breath.

But while I am processing missed opportunities, new opportunities zip right on by. Opportunities don't compassionately wait for us to resolve our feelings about opportunities we've missed; they simply roll on and take their place in line.

The growing line of missed opportunities.

If you have missed opportunities in your life, one of the most helpful things you can do about that is call them what they are. Missed opportunities. It doesn't matter how or why they got missed, they got missed.

If you want to wrestle with something, wrestle with the reality that you're about to miss another opportunity. It's right there, today, in front of you, waiting for you to grab it.

No one is going to steal it from you - seize it.

Otherwise, you'll forfeit it.

I think when we get to a place of owning that we give up more opportunities than anyone could ever steal from us, we'll quit giving them up so easily.

As we wind down another year, be reminded the year is not over. There are opportunities to be had. Momentum to carry in to 2024.

Momentum to seize, not forfeit.

So, seize it.