leverage is not only a language of the financial markets. You heard me right. Anyway, I really do like the word leverage, since I got in contact with it through the financial markets, it has been one of those smart sentence that can do a lot.
Are you part of those that 10x a position? Personally, I am not that used to ALL this market activities so I TRY to build rather than run after that quick one. You know that old saying, ‘ a gambler always losses everything’. Not everyone will agree to this anyway.
That said, I will be taking my eyes off the market into our daily living. It was one of those uncle to niece talk that I had and it's stirred up this article. I was giving her a piece of advice concerning the future. Yet it will center on how she can use. ‘the now’. I can't really remember how I framed the message to her but it was about first spotting privileges (maybe as opportunities) and making the most of it.
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Ok, so she came to my office requesting for a uniform material (probably a left over from how she was sounding), so she could sew a school uniform skirt for herself. When I asked her about what happened to the current one her reply was that it had worn. Of course Mom and Dad are very available and could see to that if she requested. Let me not go much into why she refused to demand from her parents. My concerns was how she came in and made that request very fragile.
I was just sitting there quietly and I finally had to let out what I spotted as her misunderstanding. My first question to her was if she knows who I am to her? It was worth asking because her approach on that request to me was not to standard.
I mean, you need a new skirts, your uncle is into the clothiers business and you branch my office pleading for crumbs. What do I lose in buying a material or taking one if we have it left to sew for her? Absolutely nothing, she is my niece and my growth is and should be my concerns.
Ok, NOW I remember my advice to her; ‘how far you will go in life is determined by how you can make the most of all opportunities and previledges surrounding you’.
A skirt she needed and I have promised her a skirt indeed she will get. I only wished she had come a little earlier than NOW, at least she should have been sure of using it this coming week.
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So why am I passing you through all this writeups? Even as aged individuals, many of us are stuck because we can't notice our privileged advantages. I wrote about this last week I guess, how I gave deaf ears to applying for a state grant of which I (we as a company) met all the needed requirements.
The portal finally closed and those who were serious to take that lift got some government support to help boost business.
They say success is about understanding times and seasons. Adding to that, I can say understanding placements too will take you a long. You can be at the right time and in the right place but in the absentia of understanding where your tentacles spread or should spread to, you may miss that cycle. It's just like that simple biblical quote, ‘faith without works is death’.
To conclude let me add, today I just felt we should look at some important life realities. For someone who feels he is disadvantaged the question is, ‘are you really disadvantaged?. Maybe it is just you refusing to first realize your advantages and taking advantage of every one of it. This is where my niece was, settling for a worn out uniform. She did not want to bother the parents and also not also interested in stretching out to to take advantage of her CEO uncle who at least is in this field.
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