When opportunity avails itself you’re either ready to big seize it, little seize it, or miss out entirely.
It’s easy to see someone who makes a big move to nab a big opportunity and think it was luck or good timing alone. But it’s not the moment that matters most, but the buildup.
If you constantly make little moves that get you better and better positioned in case of opportunity, you’ll be able to make big moves when it comes. This seems obvious, but it’s very hard to do.
During no-opportunity times you look around and see no great big moves to make. True. Frustrating. But if you keep looking and thinking about future scenarios, you can spot steady small moves that will compound, each shifting just a bit more of your resources into position to take advantage if big opportunity should emerge. Each small move gets max leverage when opportunity comes, and the little opportunity costs of those little moves comes back and a whole lot more.
Don’t worry about how you missed out on big opportunity, or how you don’t see it around you. Make small moves to be in position and get your mind ready. It will come.