“It’s not about timing, it’s about preparation.”
For those of you who are looking for that rare opportunity to show up, go ahead and cancel that thought process. When you follow that line of thinking, you end up waiting and waiting for an idealistic occurrence to arise, and when it does, you probably will not be able to handle it, and will then have to wait for the next rare opportunity. This quote lets you know that you have to cut off that process of waiting for the right opportunity. The rare opportunity will have less likelihood of translating into something useful if you are searching for it or viewing it as your only chance.
If preparation is the relevant factor, as the quote alludes to, you are gaining no value by waiting for the right instance to arise. Your mind might tell you that waiting is the deviously advantageous way to avoid spending time on an opportunity of low importance, but from an outside perspective, you are performing no actions while you are waiting. Someone else, who is working on being in the right position to receive the opportunity, will then acquire and be able to handle the special chance, while you will end up waiting for the next one. Keeping this quote in mind cuts out your waiting plans, and it sets the priority back where it should be, which is on making actions.
An added point is that it should certainly not be about timing. If all opportunities went to those who waited for them to arise, the most successful people would be people that waited the longest, and that doesn’t make sense from a business/social standpoint. Therefore, people who wait are penalized for wasting their time, which is only as valuable as they allow it to be.
“When ability exceeds ambition, or ambition exceeds ability, the likelihood of success is limited.”
This quote sends a vital message about how we should approach our forward movement. When you have a large amount of ability, but your ambitions are low, your ability is wasted. It is not used, and can deteriorate over time. At the same time, when you have much more ambition than your level of ability, you end up sitting back in amazement at the amount and level of work ahead of you that is needed to be completed in order to satisfy your ambitions. Your time is wasted yet again, as you get stuck at many steps along the way.
The key point here is to look to match your level of ability with your level of ambition. This can be done on either side of the issue. Ambition is the more controllable feature, so that is the one you would want to work with in the short term. Matching it with your level of ability involves noticing how you are currently feeling with the effort you are putting out. If you feel like there is much more than you are able to handle on your list of items to complete, you have to knock most of them off. They are probably not getting accomplished in that case, so they are prime targets for removal. Work that you are not working on only removes your enthusiasm.
At the same time, if you currently have less ambition than you feel your level of ability could handle, all you have to do is take an item you are working on already and expand on it. Adding new items to your list might seem appealing on this situation, but it is probably the case than you would benefit more by expanding on those items you already have put some effort towards. We tend to be very quick to add new items to our queue to complete, but slow to remove them, when in fact the speeds of entry and exit for assignments should be fairly close.
When your levels of ambition and ability do come close to each other, you are then only a period of time away from accomplishment and victory.
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Hey Armen, what a great post and a great way to reframe the perception of ‘timing’ with preparation! It is definitely very true that with the right preparation, we can bring the ‘right’ timing to us. Thank you for sharing such a valuable insight
Celes: Hey there. Thank you for that about the post, and I am glad to hear from you. I think you summed it up quite well there, in that we can attract the ‘right’ timing to our schedule, if looked at in that way. This is a good point to bring up when another person starts a statement with “When the time feels right…” or “If only I had…”, or an introduction along those lines.
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