Maybe you’ve heard countless times that all you need is one big idea—a perfect opportunity to change your life. For a while, you believe it and hope for it, but when you see no change, you turn away from it and conform to the usual path taken by most people.
Why do so many people spend their whole lives hoping for one perfect opportunity yet never seem to find it? What are they doing wrong?
Why do a few people find the right opportunity at the right time, creating a radical change? What are they doing differently? And how can you find it too, to uplift your life?
A lot of people live miserably—they do work they don’t love or aren’t proud of. They just work for money. They chase money, but when they bring it home, they can’t use it for their growth.
Many people hope for big breakthroughs. They’re the ones who dream of billion-dollar startups or overnight fame.
But here’s the truth: great opportunities are recognized from within, not through external sources.
Opportunities rarely come directly; they usually appear after a series of steps you need to take. Often, they depend on what you do and how proactive you are.
If you want to build a billion-dollar business, you have to start somewhere. You can use those experiences when the right idea hits. At that point, the experience you’ve gained will help you execute it better and potentially grow a billion-dollar company.
The key lesson to remember is that no business is inherently worth billions—the value comes from execution. How well do you execute?
Every company began at the bottom. Sometimes it’s not the idea that’s worth billions but the execution that turns a million-dollar idea into a billion-dollar one.
At the same time, you’ll find many people with great ideas—ideas with billion-dollar potential—who failed because they couldn’t execute them effectively.
The Trick of Opportunity
Napoleon Hill captures it perfectly in Think and Grow Rich: “When the opportunity came, it appeared in a different form, and from a different direction. That is one of the tricks of opportunity. It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Perhaps this is why so many fail to recognize opportunity.”
Opportunities are often hidden within setbacks and challenges, disguised in ways that make them easy to overlook. Many people miss them because they expect opportunity to appear in a clear, ideal form. But the truth is, opportunity may arise from a failed project, a difficult lesson, or even an unexpected pivot in life.
Be Active, Explore, and Understand How Things Work
If you want to spot more opportunities in life—whether for making money, growing, or something else—you need to start doing something, anything you enjoy, while also understanding how things work. Consider questions like:
If you want to start an AI company, ask, How does AI really work?
If you want an online side hustle, ask, How do people make money online?
All great ideas are the result of many previous ideas. So if you want one big idea, you need many small ideas to build the foundation.
Opportunities are everywhere, in abundance. But you need to be active and understand how things work.
My Story:
I never considered myself a writer. In the beginning, I held biases like many people: writers are boring, they just write all day, and other stereotypes fueled by media. But I learned through experience that most of these biases are false.
In my story, I want to share a pattern you can use to spot more opportunities in your life too. It’s a pattern I’ve noticed in many people’s stories—let me start with mine.
Over a year ago, I struggled to organize my thoughts, so I began journaling. Every morning, I wrote morning pages, and within a few months, I noticed a tremendous clarity in my thinking. My thoughts were more organized.
At the same time, I started writing articles on Medium and discovered that writing is just a natural process—a way of expressing oneself in words. I realized that everyone writes in some form, so everyone is, in a way, a writer.
After realizing I could write articles, I began writing on my website: harshkanwat.com.
The lesson is clear: one thing leads to another, one opportunity opens up others. If you wait for the perfect opportunity, it may never come, and you could spend your whole life regretting it.
So, start now with the obvious. Change your perception of things and seek the truth for yourself.