Chance

Don't leave chance to chance

May 31, 2025

Chance is about the opportunities you create and identify.

You need to have a conscious plan and intent for creating and discerning opportunities. You need to think ahead to create opportunities, and you need to be able to spot them when they appear unexpectedly.

This requires you to determine in advance the directions you want your career to take, to have set the table by having the skills you need, a character that supports your ambitions and the ability to communicate your POV, and to create a group of supporters that help you develop your career.

You need to be proactively looking for Chance, and know when to take a chance and when to let one pass.

The secret to creating opportunities is to understand that you need practice. If you are only alive to opportunities for yourself, you simply won’t get enough “at bats,” and you’ll deny yourself the opportunity to learn how others assess opportunity.

Practice will lead to discernment, and discernment will lead to making the right choices when presented with your chances. Regular, habitual development of opportunities for others will sharpen your ability to recognize opportunities. Even when they come well camouflaged.

So, this needs to be a habitual way of life for you.

As there is only one of you to consume the opportunities you create for yourself, the only way you can get enough practice to generate the required level of discernment is to actively commit to looking for opportunities for others. The goal is to create far more benefit for others than you can ever capture for yourself.

To be a daily hub for opportunities rather than an occasional surprised onlooker.

Liberated from the need to work on others to help you, networking becomes exciting and free of disappointment. You can help literally anyone, and you will find that literally anyone can help you.

Assessment 

  • Do you plan your moves and look for opportunities to advance appropriately to what you want to accomplish?

  • Do you have a plan for the next 6 months, 3 years and 10 years?

  • What is the trajectory of your career now and what opportunities and people do you need to support you in developing them?

Planning 

  • What do you need to do more of to develop opportunities?

  • Identify 10 people you can look for opportunities for. And start looking.

  • Less of? Is there anything you need to do less of to create more opportunities

  • What needs to stop and what needs to start?

  • Do you de-rail opportunities either consciously or unconsciously?