Talk about an unexpected opportunity to learn!

I found this poem while doing research for my book about women and power and loved how the content pulled me into a little, no a lot, of personal reflection.

My time of mental exploration helped me to recognize all the opportunities around me that I had failed to see. Why did I fail to see them? Because I thought they were obstacles.

May reading this poem do the same for you, so perhaps you’ll see something you’re missing!

Quotes about opportunity

Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by. ~Og Mandino

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. ~Alice Walker

I will prepare and someday my chance will come. ~Abraham Lincoln

To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings. ~Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Effective people are not problem-minded; they’re opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. ~Stephen Covey

Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them. Everyone must be challenged. A day dawns, quite like other days; in it, a single hour comes, quite like other hours; but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us. ~Maltbie Davenport Babcock

Victory comes from finding opportunities in problems. ~Sun Tzu

Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity, not a threat. ~Steve Jobs

Don’t wait for the right opportunity: create it ~George Bernard Shaw

Expect change. Analyze the landscape. Take the opportunities. Stop being the chess piece; become the player. It’s your move. ~Tony Robbins

If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair. ~Shirley Chisholm