Prepare enough that opportunity does not need to wait for you.

Opportunities rarely hold the door. They arrive on someone else’s schedule, and if you are still assembling yourself when they show up, they move to whoever is already assembled. The unfairness of that is real, and it is also the reason to be building before you are asked.

Consider the kind of chance you would want to be ready for, and ask what state you would need to be in to say yes within a week. Close the largest gap between that state and your current one. The goal is not perfection but being close enough that the answer can be yes.