HABIT #2: DON’T KEEP OPPORTUNITIES WAITING
The opportunity of a lifetime must be seized within the lifetime of the opportunity
The time to act on anything is not a moment sooner or later than you are able to. You have no guarantee that an open door will remain open, no assurances that your power to act in a circumstance will not expire.
An opportunity presents itself as a gift, designed for us to be used by us to make our lives better. But gifts are ours to keep for as long as we want them. An opportunity is not a gift. It is a provision, and a perishable one at that.
Like a fortuitous wind on the seas, we find it courting our sails, offering us a lift here or a push there. What we do not hear in the wind—and what we will never hear—is a pledge to remain. “Use me now!” she urgently whispers instead, “Tomorrow is not mine to give you.”
Opportunities only appear when we are ready to receive them, when our hearts and minds are open to seeing, and our circumstances have made room. They’re never early or tardy.
They are, however, jealous. If you keep them waiting, or allow fear to distract you from them, they will move on.
Life Elastic 
Andie said,
October 31, 2011 at 5:10 am
Opportunities are “jealous.” That’s a deliciously provocative thought…