"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." That's a quote by Thomas Edison. All of the successful people I have ever known, got that way by stepping away from what was comfortable for them.
I would say about 20% of my friends have stepped out and started their own businesses. Does this make them happier? It is hard to say. Some businesses have really taken off, while others have failed. A few have languished somewhere in the middle. Sometimes the difference is in how well thought out the business was in the first place. Other times, it really depended on how much work the person who started it was willing to put into it. Sometimes, neither of those things mattered. After saying all of that, I can tell you that opportunities (at least for starting businesses) rarely just fall into your lap. There is either hard work to do or a lot of networking involved to be in the right position at the right time. Sometimes, very specific knowledge is needed. One thing that is always needed, I find, is a general unhappiness with the status quo. In general, it is when you are unhappy with something in your life that you will find the extra oomf necessary to take the initial step out of your comfort zone. I know that is the way it was for me. Not only with starting my own business, but with losing weight, getting in shape...nearly everything. No matter what you want to do in life, there is work involved. Nothing comes free. There is going to be some cost. For instance, whether an opportunity works out or not, there is always going to be the time you used to take the opportunity. That will always be a sunk cost. Think of it like: "If I do this, then I can't do that." Simple. There could also be a monetary cost. Again, this could also come back to time. If I spend my time working on "A", then I can't make money doing "B". In the end, many people are just too lazy to take the first step. Others, look to skip steps to get to where they want to be sooner. I find that this doesn't work either. Make a plan on how to logically get to where you want to go, and then follow the plan through. If at some point, you see a way to improve the plan, then by all means, do so. Just don't start without a plan and then decide to wing it as you go along. From my experience, this just doesn't work out too well. There are just too many ways for things to go wrong then. When you make a plan, you have at least thought it out to that point. In all aspects of your life, smart working will get you where you want to go. While there will be some hard work involved. I always found that most of that came in the planning stages. Doing the actual work is oftentimes enjoyable. After all, whatever it is you are pursuing... whether it is a new business, an new love interest, or a new personal goal, you chose it didn't you? That means that you likely must enjoy something about it, otherwise, you would have chosen something else.
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