When preparation meets opportunity.

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How to find opportunity.

Hi I'm Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

I apologize for the all those of you who are watching, you may notice my red eyes. It actually occurred because we have these regulations.

In Josephine County, I'm in Josephine County of Oregon. And we have these regulations which pertain to air quality.

They have burn days and non burn days, there has been a long string of non burn days. And so today was a burn day. And so everyone decided that they needed to burn what needed burning, we kind of live out in the country. So we have a lot of stuff that and we're a heavily wooded area.

Everyone's got a lot of stuff that needs to be burnt. I know, it would be odd depending on where you live, but because of that, including ourselves, also burning our pile. And so because of that, I've got the red eyes and for no other reason.

So I want to talk about opportunity today.

And when I think of opportunity, I think of this quote, and it's been attributed to a million different people.

One of the most common ones I've heard attributed to is Napoleon Hill. And he may have said something similar.

But this quote, really came from Zig Ziglar, who said, "Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation."

That's always been one of my favorite quotes. And it's been read quoted, Denzel Washington has a quote out there that's similar, that's based on luck.

A lot people say, when people are lucky, and he has the same idea is no opportunity meeting preparation. And that really is what opportunity needs.

Because really, there's opportunity everywhere. If you're a business owner, if you're the type of your entrepreneurial type, you probably see opportunity way too many places.

If you're anything like me, you can't stop but find opportunities, they're just kind of everywhere, they're constantly throwing themselves at you.

You have to get really good at saying no to opportunity.

Whereas many people go through their whole life without really sensing any opportunity whatsoever.

How do you go about sensitive, you got to be prepared for it. And there's different ways to be prepared for it. I'll give you an example is when I was in, I was living in Chico, California, going to college, and was just in a really bad situation to where I had gotten stuck there a bit because I had plans with some other people.

All of them fell through identity, but I want to be there. But because of these plans, we thought we were all going to be living there. And, and a lot of us were going to be going to college, and so on so forth.

All these things, one thing after another fell through for me. So I was in a situation where I was prepared in a sense of knowing I needed a different direction, or knowing that there must be a different direction waiting for me because so many things had gone wrong.

Because of that I had something that came into my life that completely changed my life took me into a world of business that I've never quite left. And I'm to this day be the reason why I'm here with you is because of that situation.

That was a very certain type of preparation for a very certain type of opportunity.

Now I have another friend who I just recently heard him talking about how he had gone thr...