13. Should you wait for the next opportunity?

The dilemma faced by many of us in life is to decide whether to grab the opportunity on hand or allow it to pass by hoping for a better opportunity to present itself soon enough. Either way, we may go wrong!

There is a risk of having accepted an option when we could have got a more attractive option if we had waited for a while. The other risk is having let an opportunity go only to discover later that another good opportunity is hard to find.

Unfortunately, there can be no foolproof strategy for this kind of a situation. The best option is to be clear about what you want, set a minimum acceptable standard and accept something that meets this standard. 

We should not be upset if something better comes in our way after we have made a choice. There is always scope to improve upon what we have and even switch over to some other option if necessary. 

But we can't be jumping from one to another. The optimum strategy is to work with what you have chosen. After some time, if we conclude that the opportunity you have chosen does not have enough scope, we can think of switching over to a more promising one at an appropriate time.

In general, people who take a decision and stick to it are likely to be successful in the long run than those who are fickle minded, living in constant doubt of whether what they have made the right choice.

Making choices is only the first step. Success has a lot to do with how we work on what we have chosen.