Sometimes we're gonna miss it!!!!!

It is the belief of many that living in the moment helps us to latch on to every opportunity that comes our way. When our minds are focused on where we are and the space we are living in at that particular time in our lives, then we are prepared for them. Living in the now is the recipe for preparedness. At any given time anything can happen and we ought to be open for them. It's just like being in the right place at the right time. There is nothing better than being in the right place at the right time. Anyone who've had that experience can attest to this. Being in the right place at the right time is like life issuing us a blank check. All we have to do is fill in the particulars. Some opportunities are specific while others are openings or spring boards that lead to other things far greater than we could imagine.

Missing out on opportunities can really evoke a series of emotions especially when we think how things could have been. It causes us to make a paradigm shift in out thinking that lodges in our psyche for a long time. It trains us somewhat like Pavlov's dog to stay stuck in a place in our emotions that reeks of regrets and even despondency. Although sometimes it may not take us to that extreme but we may tend to be tentative after that missed opportunity. It takes a special grace to look back at a missed opportunity and admit, "okay, I blew it!" This is so much better than saying, "so what I blew it!" When we choose the former response it behooves us to look at life with a different set of eyes; the eyes of experience. Experience teaches us what to recognize in the moment. With this type of mindset we have proven that we take ownership of our actions humbly and maybe we can be trusted again with another golden opportunity.

The other response shows a bit of presumption that warrants us little. At the end of the day life owes us nothing if we can't take responsibility for our own actions when we miss it. How then can we be trusted with another? It doesn't matter what the opportunity is. Some people cop out by saying it wasn't meant to be. But the old adage, "life is what you make it," holds true. Opportunities that come our way are conditional based on how we are aligned internally and externally- spiritually and naturally. This alignment comes from where we're living and how we are living inside our selves. The spiritual always manifest itself in the natural and that is the alignment that shows up in how we live. Take the prime example of a person when their life's partner presented themselves, they missed that opportunity because they were living from a superficial place. Who they were inside showed up in their choice or lack of choice.

Opportunities have a way of showing up when we are ready and also to test us. The only person in charge of how we respond is us. The only person who also knows at what stage we are too is us. So that missed opportunity can be the stepping stone that prepares us for the other opportunity when it presents itself, trusting we are good and ready to seize the moment.
Sisterly