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What Do You Do When Opportunity Knocks?

Master Chris Berlow, UMAC Briarcliff, Neighbor

What do Steve Jobs, Malcolm Forbes, and Michael Jordan have in common?


Failure did not deter them from success.


Steve Jobs was fired from the company (Apple) he created. Malcolm Forbes (Forbes Magazine) wasn’t hired by his university newspaper. Michael Jordan (Chicago Bulls) was cut from his high school basketball team. Each of them took an event in their life and took the corrective action to move in a positive direction. And you can too.

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Everyone will face difficult challenges in their life. How we handle those obstacles determine who we become and what we accomplish.


Can you imagine Michael Jordan not picking up a basketball after getting cut? Or Steve Jobs leaving technology to do become a Buddhist monk?

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Why do some people succeed while others falter behind?


FEAR and SELF-DOUBT


Fear and self-doubt are roadblocks to opportunities. It is not the events in our lives that shape our destiny, but the decisions we make about those events. Turn the negatives into positives.


Here are 4 tips to turn mistakes into successes:

  1. Choose to admit the mistake. Take ownership then move on and focus on results

  2. Choose to act. Take corrective action and move in a positive direction

  3. Choose to apologize. Say the right words, right away

  4. Choose to learn from the mistake. Find the opportunity for learning and growth, face it head on...don’t ignore it


When problems, obstacles, and challenges occur, you need to do more than “get past it”. First realize this obstacle may be an opportunity in disguise.


You can develop the skills to manage whatever comes your way. You have infinite power. To read more on this topic, go to Amazon or Barnes and Noble now.


“Hope touches the intangible, sees the invisible, and achieves the impossible.” Anonymous


Thank you for this opportunity to serve you.


Master Chris Berlow, 6th Dan

Professional Martial Artist, Owner, and Author

UMAC Briarcliff

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