Leaders worship it and teach you to seek it …

It is the worshiped idol of leaders.

They pursue it with great gusto.

They teach others to pursue it, and preach that it should be pursued. With gusto.

It is that thing called “opportunity.”

Leaders are constantly admonishing followers to look for it everywhere, and take advantage of it every time you discover it.

But today’s leaders more often teach us to pursue opportunity mostly as a means of having more; sometimes, it’s for the chance to do more, and some value opportunity in order to become more, to be better. But opportunity is searched for and sought after more for personal gain than for other, more altruistic reasons.

Therein is how we miss out on one of the greatest “opportunities” God provides us: the chance to be a source of opportunity for others.

If you’re not a source of opportunity for others, you’re not a leader.

And if you’re not a source of opportunity for others, then you’re taking from an interaction or relationship and not offering anything in response.

How are you a source of opportunity to others? How can you become one?

Scotty