*Knock Knock Knock*
Do you hear that sound? That’s opportunity knocking on the doors of life.
A beautiful sound, truly. That is, if you answer the door.
Many will go their entire lives ignoring the knocking, leaving the visitor we call opportunity waiting impatiently outside.
Without realizing that simply answering that door, that repetitive knocking, is the one action that could change their entire lives.
Why do we not answer the doors of opportunity? For many reasons really. But the biggest one? Fear.
Fear of failure, maybe even fear of not being good enough for the opportunity presented to us.
Why is that? Because it isn’t a guarantee. There are no guarantees. It isn’t even guaranteed that you will wake up in the morning. (BTW IF U ARE READING THIS TAKE A MOMENT AND BE GRATEFUL. YOU ARE ALIVE!!!)
Open the door. Greet the opportunity with a smile, even if you are scared. It didn’t knock for no reason. Nothing ever happens for no reason. Straight up.
If you follow me on Twitter you likely know that the doors of opportunity started knocking for me in the past few days. It knocked hard. A type of opportunity that would change my entire life and the trajectory of my MMA career.
Can I be honest with you? Real for one second?
Last night, I almost told the person knocking to go away. That I wasn’t home. You read that correctly. Last night I almost turned down the opportunity presented to me. Why is this?
I was scared. Sick to my stomach scared. Packing up on two months notice and moving across the country all by myself to a place where I do not know a SINGLE person. With hardly any money to my name. It scared me. To an extent, it still scares me. What if I am not good enough to be here? What if I fail? What if I can’t afford to pay my rent at the facility?
What if. What if. What if. WHAT IF. There are a whole bunch of what ifs in life. Millions of them.
That don’t matter. You know what does? What is. What is. What is. WHAT IS.
What I have infront of me is an opportunity to change not only my own life, but my entire families life. Let alone the lives of my future children. Opportunities like this do not come often in life. To think, I almost turned it away because of fear.
This type of story is what legends are made of. People who have nothing to their name but a dream and the will to survive doing anything possible to make it happen. MAKING THEMSELVES UNCOMFORTABLE in order to be a CHAMPION in life and in their sport.
I had two choices. I could live an average life and regret it when I am 40 working a job that makes me want to put a bullet in my head. Or I can open the door (ACTUALLY ILL RUN THRU THE F*CKIN DOOR IF IM BEING HONEST) and go for it. I can live a life that legends are written about. Yeah, it’s a struggle. Yeah, it’s uncertain. That’s fine. Things always work themselves out when you put the work in.
What kind of life do you want to live Anon? Me? I want to be a legend. This is a hell of a story I’m writing here. So long as I am alive I live to write another day and another page, which leads to another chapter.
Don’t cave and buckle to fear. IT’S SUPPOSED TO BE SCARY. IF IT DIDN’T SCARE YOU AT ALL THAT MEANS IT’S JUST A LITTLE TOO AVERAGE! Spit in adversities face. Run thru the wall and make your dreams a reality.
It’s up to YOU to make the decision. How badly do you want to accomplish what you’ve set out to do? Whatever it is. How badly do you want it? What are you willing to do to make it there? I’m willing to do anything. Literally. I will DIE and be HOMELESS before I give up on myself and this dream.
Do you have that kind of resolve?
GOD BLESS
BowTiedFighter (CERTIFIED F*CKIN BEAST)