Opportunities and motivation are connected. Motivated people see opportunities, and opportunities are often what motivate people. Great attitudes precede great opportunities. Who you are determines what you see. Today is the best day for an opportunity. Opportunity always takes now for an answer. Opportunities are the result of pluck, not luck. The people who succeed seek out opportunities, and if they cannot find them, they create them. Opportunities do not present themselves in ideal circumstances. If you wait for all for someone to create an opportunity for you, you will never leave your house.

Employee training in financial accounting has paid off for Jack Stack at SRC Corporation in Woodridge, Illinois, which rebuilds engines. President and owner of SRC, he was really concerned when his company lost $61,000.00 on sales of $16,000,000.00. He decided that the “only way to turn things around was to get employees to think like owners. However, how to do it? He decided to teach anyone who moved a broom or operated a grinder everything a bank lender would know. That way they would really understand how each nickel saved could make a difference.

Therefore, SRC spent $300,000.00 on financial accounting training for its employees. Each week the company stopped its operations for an hour while its 800 employees broke into small groups to study the latest financial statements. “At first it was not easy for everyone to understand the numbers,” concedes employee Craig Highbarger, “but we have been over the different figures enough times now, if you hand any one of us a financial statement and leave out a few numbers, we can fill them in,” this is why students are taught how to do Algebra.

Y=3/4x + 2

Solution:

Y=3/4x + 2

4y=4(3/4x+2)

4y=3x +8

-3 + 4y = 8

The standard form is 3x -4y = -8

Employees now understand how much it cost to copy a document or turn on a light. Has it made a difference? Recently SRC earned $6,000,000.00 on sales of $100,000,000.00. As a result of this turnaround, SRC handed out $1,400,000.00 in bonuses to its employees, who are now wealthier in both cash and knowledge. Opportunity without commitment will be lost. Abandoned opportunities are never lost—they are simply pursued by the competition. Opportunity is birthed out of problems. If you are looking for a BIG opportunity, find a BIG problem. Opportunities either multiply or disappear. The more opportunities you pursue, the more you find behind them. If they are to survive, opportunities must be nourished. Feed an opportunity; starve a problem. To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success.

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the World a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you lived. This is to have succeeded. I am a guy who practiced until the blisters bled, and then practiced some more. When I was a kid I carried my coffee to class with me. I would wake up at 4am, go to work, then be in class by 8.30am, until 3.30pm, then pick my sister up, go back to work at 4pm to 11pm. And while I was working had to baby sit my sister, at the job. You are never truly a success until you enjoy what you are doing. You are capable of more than you can imagine—so imagine the ultimate.