Opportunities Everywhere

It's the holiday season and I'm feeling grateful, positive and cautiously excited about the future. While businesses, big and small are flexing, changing and reorganizing every 15 minutes, it's easy to conclude that times are bad, that jobs/work are few and far between, but during these times opportunities abound. I'm hearing good news all around. Colleagues finding more work, news that the job market is opening up and that people are thinking clearer, more out of the box and considering new careers, and how to develop new skills and capabilities to leverage themselves for new opportunities.
I have to remind myself at this time every year when contracts are lapsing, things slow down around the holidays, budgets get tight, bills pile up and phones/emails quiet down that the new year is upon us...and I'm reminded that with the right attitude, faith and bit of luck thrown in for good measure, the opportunities are everywhere, waiting to be found and seized.