Opportunity

     I have always been intrigued with magic. I am also one of those people that have to know what it is, and how it works. I have taken the magicians oath, simply so that I can know. In return I share small bits of magic I can with children just to see them smile, and listen to their parents relate stories of them attempting to replicate the trick. I don't share my information about magic at all. I do about science. 

     When I was a boy my father once came home with the most amazing machine known to man. A Commodore 64. I could actually control a thing on the television! I would play Radar Rat Race for Hours. But like magic, I had to know how it worked. Dad would buy a magazine, and in it was pages and pages of code, Dad would dutifully type it all in and save it to a cassette tape and VOILA a program... ish. I started looking at the code itself. why did these words affect the computer like that? I looked for similarities in the programs until I found common words. GOTO, PRINT, etc. Dad finally gave in and helped me learn BASIC. I was eight. I had to know. High school brought the Internet to the house. In college I was programming my Papers in HTML (that I had reversed Engineered) because it was the only way I could print them on the library printers. 

     The ARMY taught me some new things. Circuits, signal conditioning, and radio theories. WOW, this was much better than programming. I would actually be able to build the circuit to do what I wanted. Honed by working on Point of sale refurbishment, and repair of two way radios, I was excited that I had learned so much. 

     In talking with the VA, they encouraged me to peruse a degree in Electrical Engineering. How flipping absurd was this! Your talking about Tony Stark, Nicoli Tesla, Thomas Edison, people I had looked up to as Magicians, a magic that I had learned some simple tricks to amaze people, but now, someone thinks me worthy of learning the whole show. Bless my beard.

     I run a Home based business, and one thing I have learned is to not prequalify ANYONE. I have met people that were making sandwiches for a living, who were able to replace their income and more, in just a short time. What if their sponsors had said, Nah I don't think this is right for you. But here I was prequalifing the one person I know better than anyone else. ME. I prequalified myself for an opportunity to learn what the masters know because I didn't think I could. I have a tested IQ of 155, I took the ASVAB after three hours of sleep, no food or water for three days and got a GT score that let me do anything I wanted in the Army. But yet I had told my self I wasn't smart enough to do this. 

     I see this a lot in business. I'll chat someone up and tell them I have an opportunity, and they tell me they don't have the money, sometimes before I even talk numbers with them. They tell me they don't have the time. They tell me they don't know how. Here I am, with an opportunity to go back to school, and get paid for it, and all I have to do is say... Yes. All I have to do is step outside my comfort zone, and do it. Will it get me a job? the VA guarantees me a job when I'm done. 

     I know a couple who is MISERABLE. They have an open mortgage, and borrow against it to the tune of (L+~100) where L= last month's borrowing. Their health is terrible, and their future is bleak. I showed them the business. They knew plenty of people that are interested and have REFERRED some to me. THEY HAVE WORKED A BUSINESS, that they are too AFRAID to start. They are so afraid of doing something different that they are running themselves into the ground, to stay in their comfort zone. Like me, all they had to do is say... Yes. 

What is holding you back?