This excerpt is from ‘ If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain’ by John M. Capozzi.
Always Maintain a Positive Attitude
“Many years ago, a large American shoe manufacturer sent two sales reps out to different parts of the Australian outback to see if they could drum up some business among the aborigines. Some time later the company received telegrams from both agents. The first one said, “ No business here…natives don’t wear shoes.” The second one said, “Great Opportunity here… natives don’t wear shoes!”
I read this about ten years ago on a flight from London to the United States. I knew that this was going to be very relevant in my life but at the time I didn’t know why.
Recognizing an opportunity while everyone else around you is oblivious to it is often seen as ‘luck’ and luck is when preparation meets opportunity.
I have been preparing Tae-Robics USA for launch in the UK for many years. I didn’t actually know myself that this was what I was doing, I was merely following a passion and doing what I felt right for me.
Tae-Robics UK… Martial Arts instructors don’t teach group fitness to the general public!
