Two issues are important to discuss while talking about opportunities: how to create opportunities and how to act once there is an opportunity. [singlepic id=248 w=320 h=240 float=right] An opportunity is something which most of us think comes alone. We think that opportunities are not something that we can make an effort to bring. In fact opportunities can be made and brought in a way or another. Not only knowing how to create opportunities is what we need but also knowing how and when to make a move is important.

In order to create an opportunity one must start by agreeing with himself that he or she is ready to make an effort without waiting for an immediate result. Beside real effort, one must have determination to continue on while facing difficulties and possible failure. The way expressions like failure must be re-understood in order to know how to use it for the benefit of creating opportunities. In the beginning one must believe that success and a good opportunity will not come without determination and a will to continue and fail several times until success is reached. Failure must turn into an event that increases one’s determination to move on until the goal is achieved.

Time, laws, and authority that define the “right way” must be ignored. There is nothing called a right way. Instead there is your, his and her way that may differ in its nature but in the end make us reach what we want. Anger is one important thing that would be felt while dealing with failure and on the way to success. The best way in dealing with anger is by turning it into determination and then the result would be more focus and energy to continue the way to success.

After understanding how to deal with failure and how to get determination, one must understand how to create opportunities while remembering what is the goal that he or she really wants to achieve. Take some time to ask yourself about what really interests you since creativity and excellence can be made only in fields which make us feel passion while living to achieve something in them. After asking the question of what we really want, we should work on opening as many ways as we can in order to get the opportunity we want to get. There is nothing true in believing that there is only one way to achieve what we want. Usually we forget that we create our choices and make our choices; we are the creators of the choices and ways that we put for ourselves and therefore we can always find more than two answers for our questions.

The most important thing is in knowing how to create our way to the opportunities that we want to reach and then to act professionally and seize the opportunity that we create. Once we are able to create our opportunities and then act wisely and quickly to seize them, we become the creators of our own destiny. Life is a journey that can be passed either by leaving our touch in it or simply by staying in the normal line. Once we pass through this journey and then look at the way we acted and worked for the sake of our purpose, it is worth realizing that we did something that satisfies us and makes us feel that we did not let an opportunity pass without trying to seize it.

Ziad Khalil Abu Zayyad

A Palestinian-Arab living in East Jerusalem, Ziad graduated from College Des Freres in Jerusalem in 2003. Ziad finished his major in International Relations and English Literature from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Ziad is a former President of the Watan student movement at the university. He is interested in Middle Eastern political issues and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Founder of the Middle East Post and MEL (Middle East Future Leadership Network), he represents Palestinian youth at several international conferences.

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