Good morning good morning and happy Thursday listeners! Coach Kate here with another edition of Minute Explorations today. I host this space weekday mornings where we have the opportunity to dive into some motivations, quotes, inspirations, and more together in just a few minutes. It's a few minutes to start your day, get you thinking, and hopefully leave you inspired for the day to come. 

Today I wanted to dive into this idea around opportunity and seizing the moment. Recently I heard a beautiful quote about how opportunity is not permanent, and so action is the most important thing we can do when opportunity presents itself. Now I tried very hard to find the original author of this quote, but it seems to be more of a unknown origined proverb, and it doesn't even get the designation as proverb as it's often quoted by itself with no known origin. I did find two attributed Authors to this quote, and I'll include them here, but both seem to be published after it was first seen and used. What I am saying is, the original author somehow missed their opportunity to be known and recognized for this saying, which is definitely on brand for a quote of this nature. So here it is:

“Opportunities come to pass, not to pause”

― Peter Hartman / James Wallace / Unknown

What this quote tells us, is that opportunities are momentum. Opportunities are a moment. Opportunities are a visitor. A blessing. A gift-- all with a time constraint attached to it. We are given so many opportunities in our life, some we're ready and prepared for, some we're anticipating, some we are not prepared for at all, and some that greet us completely by surprise. The interesting thing here, is that we could miss any of these, despite our preparedness, forethought, or desire around the opportunity-- if we don't take action. We could be the most prepared, the most put together, and know the opportunity is coming, and still miss it -- all because we let it pass. Also, we could not know it's coming, have nothing prepared, and no idea how the opportunity will play out in our life, and take it by the handlebars and embrace it with action. Opportunity is nothing without action. Preparation brings us closer to the outcome of opportunities, but it doesn't guarantee an outcome-- action does. 

So this wonderful Thursday morning-- ask yourself:

What ways can I take action the next time an opportunity comes up?

Use this as a guide to identify opportunities as they arise, and create that life of yours with action and intention. 

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