Big yellow screens

You know how some days just fly by? Those that seem to happen, but you don’t actually know what happened? For me, last Wednesday was such a day. As I walked to my office, through the long corridors of our headquarters, a bright yellow image from our digital screens caught my attention.

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” — Seneca, Roman philosopher

I’ve been known to say that I have had success in my life by being in the right place, at the right time. “I’ve been lucky.”

I have also had a few times when I was in the wrong place at the wrong time, or a mixture of those two scenarios. This quote stopped me dead in my tracks, standing in the middle of a hallway. I can name several examples of how I was either prepared or unprepared to accept an opportunity, personally and professionally. Can’t you?

 

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