Close Encounters

Close Encounters

This very moment of your life is where opportunity knocks. Not later this year or next month or come the weekend or tomorrow morning or 10 o’clock tonight.

Opportunity is in the present. Perhaps you haven’t noticed that she is in line behind you at the bank almost every day. Or does she choose the same train car as you on the way into work?

Maybe you’ll have no option but to sit beside your next employer in a crowded coffee shop? You might just bump into someone at the supermarket who will change your thinking forever?

A chance encounter could change the course of your life. But how do you connect?
You reach out by reigning in your thoughts to the present moment: Soak up the immediate surroundings with your senses - the people, the places, the possibilities - no matter where you are.

And now for a somewhat alien challenge: Strike up a conversation with that unsuspecting stranger. You’ll know when the time is right - trust your instinct, feel the chemistry. Never underestimate the value of kick-starting a conversation: You just never know where a few pleasantries might take you.

Relax, ask open questions, maintain eye contact, tune-in. The world’s your oyster: Grab it!