If a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she is blind, she is not invisible.
— Francis Bacon
REFLECTION
— Francis Bacon
REFLECTION
Chance does not aim, but it can be watched. Openings arrive constantly and most pass unrecognised, not because they were hidden but because nobody was looking in a way that would notice them: a remark that hints at a need, a person leaving a job, a complaint nobody followed up. Attention is the whole difference between a lucky person and an unlucky one working in the same room.
Give yourself a standing question this week, something like what has just become possible that was not possible last month. Ask it on Friday afternoons, write the answers down, and act on one of them before it goes cold.
Which opportunity was visible for weeks before you noticed it?
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.