United States and It's Fabulous 50

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Business students at a large university were assigned the task of interviewing a cross-section of the local community and submit a report on the experience.

One student was less than enthusiastic about the assignment. "I considered it to be a complete waste of time," he said, "until I asked a farmer in his late 70s, ‘How much education have you had?’ He answered, ‘Well, I had six years of schoolin` and seventy-two years of learnin`.’"

Schoolin`and learnin` (acquiring knowledge and acquiring wisdom) are not the same. In our present day society, we seem to have little or no time in our busy schedules for practicing the pursuit of wisdom through serious, uninterrupted, quiet reflection on the mystery of life: who we are and what we ought to be doing with our lives. We are crippled in our search for wisdom by a society which insists on describing success as the ability to acquire knowledge and to skillfully apply that knowledge to the pursuit of personal gain.

…As we acquire knowledge at breakneck speed, are we wise enough to realize the need to slow down, and seriously reflect on how to handle it? Are we wise enough to know what to do with it? Are we wise enough to use it to uplift the human spirit and to better our human relationships? Are we wise enough to apply our learnin` to our schoolin`?

When opportunity knocks, will you recognize it?  Opportunity comes in many forms.  Many times we see opportunity in our failures and our stumbles in life.  It is what we learn from our failures and stumbles that count.  Sometimes we create opportunites after a failure because we do not want that to happen to us again.  We stumble or fail at something and then we realize that we need to take steps to prevent that from happening again so we begin to search for a cure, or a way to change. 

There are many opportunities that we encounter on a daily basis.  I am considering returning to school to pursue a masters degree.  I know that that opportunity is there but will that guarantee me success?  That depends.  I do not need my masters degree to be successful in my current job as they are unrelated skills but if I take advantage of the opportunity now it may well pay off in the future should I decide to change careers or pursue a second career after retirement from my current position. 

I believe that there is opportunity in almost everything.  We've all heard tales about the little worker bee that advanced to become the boss or the owner of a company or business.  If you are currently employed, in most cases, I believe that advancement is possible, there is probably that opportunity if you are willing to make the sacrifices necessary to make it happen.  Those sacrifices may include changing your shift schedule, furthering your education or just mastering your current job so that you are the expert in all facets of that job.  Opportunity is almost always present. 

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