The power of inspired action.

When I first discovered medium, I hadn’t really considered taking this platform seriously-let alone using it as a platform for broadcasted expression. College was basically the only time I had practiced writing essays and that experience wasn’t quite the beacon of entrepreneurship.

But combining job hunting with trying to adopt the often conflicting notions of being an entrepreneur and putting my Bachelor’s degree to good use made it seem like a solid first step.

See, the power of opportunity is often undervalued when it comes to new prospects being missed. If we assume that we need to find the perfectly acceptable job by societal standards, we risk not discovering things that may veer our lives in the direction it is meant to head in. And twenty years down the line, when we look back with retrospective clarity we might cringe at who we’ve become had we adopted the normally prescribed narrative that those around us had pressured us to take.

So do we choose what’s subjectively best for ourselves, or do we choose what we know will calm and soothe the anxieties that those who care about us have regarding the security of our careers?

Do we prevent our midlife crises now, or do we take the conventionally safe route and leave the healing for when we seek treatment?

Will we stay in the bubble or go out and take that risk?

Let this be a reminder that when an opportunity looms her easily unnoticed head we must remember to consider the prospect of its full potential being realized. The likelyhood of the upside severely outweighing the potential downside should attract more of our attention so that we create more optimistic trajectories and get inspired to take massive action accordingly, rather than settling for mediocrity.

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