The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1906-11-17
MAKE FOR SUCCESS
CHANCES AND, OPPORTUNITIES
IN LIFE.
Actions That Lead to Wealth and Pc
sition Almost Always Mat
tor Of oevetopmeot-Tune
Lost in Regrets.

When | was boy, said an elderly
| gentleman who has done we'll in the
| world, in discussing the contributing
| elements 10 success. Il used to have
drummed into me by benevolent and
kindly disposed people. thar II
wished 10 succeed should take al.
vantage Of my opportunities.
And this same advice goes today,
and II is good advice. too. though |
ara of the opinion that too much OF
this sort OF treacle Is worse in its
| effects than none at all Some PEG.
| pie go all through life uncousciously
taking advice. and that Is about all
they do take. ! have given this sub.
iect OF opportunities considerable
study from practical standpoint.
| and my results are these:
The word 'opportunit - should be
| shifted to chances. TIL IRE il vast
| amount OF distinction in this matter.
which ! will make clear 10 you.
Wherever YOU go. and in all csllings
and stations in life. YOU will hear
men say: Oh. II | had only taken
advantage of that opportunity | would
have been rich, and a lot of similar
talk. which a. matter OF fact,
means nothing II they really had
their lives to live over again they
would do precisely the same as Ia the
first instance.
An opportunity is an evolution. Il
L.. "a Il o., L.,
an initial instance or event but 1t is
of subsequent development. In othar
words. 1t does not become an oppor.
tunity until the particular crisis
which makes of il an opportunity has
elapsed or passed Until that period
II is merely chance
This Is NO as refined 8 distinction
as the casual reader would imagine.
familiar illustration. Ia the realms
OF speculatiCI'. as in the stock market,
VIII suffice 10 prove this statement. A
man follows the market closely for.
say three weeks During This time
the opportunity he had ot making
successful turns make you tired to
listen To. They have come up every
day. n he had bought this particu.
lar stock he would have done SO aud
so. IT he had sold another stock be
would have made enough to have re
tired. But az he didn't do either. he
goes around singing his tale of lost
opportunities
"As matter Of fact, almost pre-.
cisely the same, or "osy similar OPP
portunities exist fur hipi In the en-.
suing three weeks. Hut the distinct ion
Is this: All In the future is but
chance--tbe passing of the day. or OF
the crucial moment in speculation
and in business transactions dsvsl-
ops o. shows what the opportunity
may have been. Untii then 1t lies
hidden. and human foresight does not
discern II. II man makes move
he strikes al the chance and not at
the opportunity. Thus, II he sells his
stock short, and the turn oi the mar
kst shows that he should have held
on to it, he cries about missing his
opportunity when the oppoltunity
could not possibly have been dsvel.
oped until he had taken whatever se-
tion he was destined to take,
1T Is the same where /. mau NOV
from one town to another to engage
in business, when subsequent heysiop-
ments show that he would have bat.
tered himself had he remained in the
firs town. Hut he had 10 make the
move. AID 20 through il all to prove
that there WAS really an opportunity
for him ia the first place and he
couldn't have developed this fact. or
'0pportuDity,' as he calls it. unless he
had actually made the move In cues.
ton.
And thus many men pass their
lives regrettihg what they term lost
opportunities when they had simply
been confronted by chances, and sub
sequent developments showed that
these chances We're unfsyorable to
them when actually taken. The man
who really 'grasps an opportunity, Is
he who AsCerns the possibility Of
chance evolving or eliminating in
what subsequently, reveals Itself to be
an opportunity. II men, especially
those who are called the unfortunate
sort, will digest this illustration aud
what It proves, they will save them.
selves lot of retrospective, unhap.
py thoughts. They will also be Ell.
abled to discern in future steps and
business transactions what the pos.
sible chances OF their acts may he,
and will thus develop what we are all
looking for and so few fnd-so-called
golden opportunities.