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people. When I am full of energy and hope, I see oppor-
tunities all around me.
But when I am angry, I see other people as unneces-
sarily testy. When I am depressed, I notice that people’s
eyes look sad. When I am weary, I see the world as bor-
ing and unattractive.
Who I am is what I see!
If I drive into Phoenix and complain, “What a
crowded, smog-ridden mess this place is!” I am really
expressing what a crowded, smog-ridden mess I am at
that moment. If I had been feeling motivated that day,
and full of hope and happiness, I could just as easily
have said, while driving into Phoenix, “Wow, what a
thriving, energetic metropolis this is!” Again, I would
have been describing my inner landscape, not
Phoenix’s.
Our self-motivation suffers most from how we choose
to see the circumstances in our lives. That’s because we
don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are.
In every circumstance, we can look for the gold, or
look for the filth. And what we look for, we find. The
best starting point for self-motivation is in what we
choose to look for in what we see around us. Do we see
the opportunity everywhere?
“When I open my eyes in the morning,” said Colin
Wilson, “I am not confronted by the world, but by a
million possible worlds.”
It is always our choice. Which world do we want to
see today? Opportunity is life’s gold. It’s all you need to
be happy. It’s the fertile field in which you grow as a
person. And opportunities are like those subatomic
quantum particles that come into existence only when
they are seen by an observer. Your opportunities will
multiply when you choose to see them.