Build yourself until opportunity has more reasons to stay than leave.

Opportunity arrives more often than people think, but it does not stay unless something holds it. Preparation, reliability, follow-through, a way of working that makes people want to come back. Chances given to someone who cannot yet carry them tend to leave quietly and rarely return. Building yourself is what turns a passing chance into something that settles in.

Think of a time an opening came and did not last, and ask honestly what would have needed to be in place. Work on that now, before the next one appears. Readiness cannot be assembled at the moment it is required.