Creating doorways...

A good analogy for creating opportunities for ourselves is to use the phrase - "create a doorway."

When you know what you want, but there's a wall in the way stopping you from reaching it, then the best way through is to create a doorway.

This could mean any number of things, but essentially means creating the opportunity for yourself to move closer to gaining what it is you want.

For example if you want to design a new website but you have little or no experience, you could create a doorway in a number of ways.

To name just a few, you could - take a course in web design, get some good books on the subject, find some websites you like and use them as a model, do some work experience with a website designer you respect, or find step-by-step tutorials on the internet.

Each of these is a doorway to what you want, in this case to gaining knowledge and experience in designing your new website.

But creating doorways is not quite ALL there is.

Once you've created the doorways, you've got to pick one and walk right through. Simply creating the doorway then standing at it gazing through isn't going to get you where you want to be.

You need to make the commitment - walk through the doorway - and follow through to where it leads.

Once you've done this, you'll be in a stronger place to consider your next options. And you can then go on to create more new doorways, all the time traversing the walls obstructing you and getting you closer to what you want...

So what doorways can YOU create for yourself today? And when will you commit to walking through..?