OPEN DOORS

It has been said "opportunity knocks but once", but I believe hard work and favor creates more than one opportunity. The trick is doing the right kind of HARD WORK and praying for the right kind of FAVOR. To recognize opportunities best suited to your success, it is necessary to get a vision designed to suit your goals. Life is more than money, but dreams often need substance to materialize, and money produces substance!

Pack your dreams into a bottle and throw the bottle into the ocean. Don't travel to distant lands to find them. Just keep returning to the spot where you threw them in and your faith will bring them home to you. But be careful when you open the bottle, it now contains the fullness of your hopes and is designed to give you wings to fulfill your dreams. The moral of this story is, you still must work to accomplish your dreams. The proverbial ship never follows the bottle back to shore.

We must SEE the open door and SEIZE the moment in order to REAP the benefits presented with each opportunity. Are you looking for the right doors to open? Remember, just because a door opens doesn't make it right for you. Only chose to go through the doors designed to bring you closer to your vision and fulfill your goals. Many have fallen victim to life's deceptive doors of chance, mistaking them for career opportunities. Thank God we often get more than one opportunity to fail, allowing us also more opportunities to succeed. What's often right for someone else doesn't make it right for you.

Never trade what's right for what's good. A good thing never brings the same fulfillment as the right thing. Life is filled with samples, but if you break it, you bought it! Remember, people are resources, more valuable than any merchandise we often use and dispose of later. If we build the right kind of relationships, built on trust, our world and their world combine to bring us closer to fulfilling our dreams. Sometimes our success is leveraged by their success. Help others win and you become a winner!