Saying Yes To Opportunity

This weekend, I attended a seminar presented by “million dollar wealth attraction coach” David Neagle. It was a fine seminar, held at the Hilton in LAX.

David is a good speaker, and the event planners did a great job of organizing and conducting the event. I also enjoyed the opportunity to attend a VIP luncheon with the E-Zine Queen, Alexandria Brown.

There wasn’t really anything new or amazing in David’s stage presentation, and I found myself saying “I Know, I Know” a lot, but there were a couple of gems that were reinforced, and I wanted to mention them here.

What Are You Going to Do With the Rest of Your Life?

David’s epiphany happened when we was almost killed by being sucked into a turbine farm at a water power generating dam. When he recovered, he considered his life and accomplishments and was less than thrilled. This led him to ask the questions, “what are you going to do with the rest of your life?”

He realized that he had no real legacy to leave his children, and that his life was less than exceptional. Yes, he longed for something more, and at least a chance to find happiness and leave something for his children to be proud of.

That’s what caused him to set off on a journey of self-discovery that ultimately led to his becoming a presenter for Bob Proctor and later a million dollar wealth attraction coach.

Will It Take a Catastrophic Event to Cause You to Answer the Question?

David needed a near-death experience to cause him to ask the question. I needed a complete life altering meltdown of everything I knew and almost everyone I knew to cause me to really, really ask it.

So, that raises the question, will it take a catastrophic event to cause you to ask and answer the “what will you do with the rest of your life question?”

If you are thrilled with your life now, then you may not need to ask, but if life is not currently all that you expected or hoped it would be, consider how you would feel if you had a brush with mortality.

If your life was to end now, would it have been the life you could have made it and would you be proud of it? If not, then why not change it today?

Attracting Opportunities Is Easy, Saying Yes Is More Difficult

It’s easier than you can imagine to attract opportunities to you. The challenge is recognizing them.

Frequently, opportunities come disguised as setbacks. If you are about to lose your home, or you recently lost your job, or something else happened that appears on its face to be a big negative, chances are you created that event to provide you an opportunity to change your life in some desirable way.

I won’t argue here that monumental losses can be nothing more than bad. Certainly, there are many bad things that happen to good people that make no surface sense. However, if you think for a moment about most of the minor and mid-level setbacks you have experienced, I suspect that a second look at them would reveal an opportunity to move forward somehow.

Recognizing these opportunities is imperative to changing your life for the better. Even if you are already successful, you need to recognize opportunities to evolve to the next level, and there is always a next level!

Say Yes When The Opportunities Appear

As you begin to recognize the opportunities all around you, the next step in your personal evolution is to begin to say yes to them.

It’s easy to think of dozens of reasons why you cannot do something, but you shouldn’t. If an opportunity arises, it does so because you have created it from your conscious or subconscious mind.

Having gone to all the trouble of manifesting such an opportunity, isn’t it foolish to say no to it?

Don’t make up reasons why you can’t, think of all the reasons why you must! In the end, it is only by saying yes to the opportunities we attract that we can effectively answer the question, “what are you going to do with the rest of your life?”

I believe that the answer we should give is… “life it passionately, dedicating ourselves to evolving into the best person we can be, earning a living doing what we love most, and making time for the friends and family we have to show them how much joy they bring to our lives.”