Opportunities..

Today, I would like to talk about something that I found online and really interesting. This is a quote from a very famous author that I had to share.

“For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Economists refer to this as the “opportunity cost”. Emerson said it much more eloquently, but essentially said the same thing. What this really amounts to is this – for everything we do, we miss an opportunity to do something else. For every opportunity we lose, there is some other gain we have experienced from the path we took. For every opportunity we take, there is another we passed up.

This is something to remember at all times. We may look back and say ‘wow, if only I had invested in that stock when it was $2 – it is now $40!’. In doing so, we must also realize that we gained something else. Perhaps you donated that money to charity, and helped someone else move forward in their life. Or maybe you used that money to buy some item that provided enjoyment, such as a game or other personal item.

The point is simple – if you spend all your time looking at the doors behind you that have closed, you cannot ever see the ones that are open in front of you.

Keep that in mind –

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February 1, 2010  Tags: , , , , , ,   Posted in: Self-Improvement

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