I grew up with the idea that when opportunity knocks, you open the door and let it in…but what do you do when opportunity doesn’t knock and you need an opportunity – I agree with the funnyman of yesterday – Milton Berle – If opportunity doesn’t knock – Friend you build a door. Yes – sometimes you need to pull out the hammer and saw and make things happen. Ideally, I wish it would just appear, but you and I know that isn’t always the case… so now is the time to get going… to put on our work clothes

I don’t know about you – but I sometimes struggle to get moving on projects, book writing, speech writing, radio show writing, you name it, and I’m usually dragging myself to get it done… What’s odd is it’s not that I don’t want to do it, but I find so many other “worthy” things to do instead of my work…like clean the house, vacuum my car, read my emails, do my laundry (I’m odd like that) but I still have to get to it – I still have a responsibility to my editor, my team and others to do my