"When one door closes another door opens, but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us." ~ Alexander Graham Bell What door is opening for you?

I've put off answering this question for a long time and I still don't know what to write about. I guess I kind of disagree with the basic premise that doors open for us, or that opportunity knocks. Those beliefs presume that good things just fall in our laps. That happens on rare occasions, but more often than not we need to create our opportunities. We need to knock a doorway out of a wall rather than simply watch a door swing ajar like magic. I was just looking at quotes about opportunity and found one by Thomas Edison which sums up what I think about doors opening for us and opportunity knocking:  "Opportunity is missed by most people because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work."

So then the question becomes, what doors am I opening for myself?  And that's where I'm stumped.

I suppose I'm doing some prep work so that I can open some doors in the future. For example, I'm working on paying off bills to be ready for retirement. I'm working on making plans and creating lists about all the things I want to do when I retire. Things I want to learn, hikes I want to take, places I want to visit, sights I want to see. Thinking about where I want to live.

The problem is that right now I feel caught in limbo, frustrated by the waiting game. Tired of the prep work and wanting to get started on the actual doing. Am I so completely enveloped in the anticipation of things to come that I'm missing doors I could be opening and opportunities I could be taking advantage of in the meantime???

Now that's a really good question to ponder.