Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1918 — YOUR CHANCE [ARTICLE]

YOUR CHANCE

Quit worrying over lost opportunities and become alert to new ones. * 0 * You are going to have more chances to make good. * The old saying that opportunity knocks but once at your door is a fallacy. Don’t be so pernickety that you immediately begin to wonder if the quotation about “opportunity” was correctly quoted, and so lose'sight of the lesson which it is sought to drive in. From experience you know you have had already more than one chance to improve your present position. Don’t allow yourself to think the big ch&npe is going to hunt you up. Indeed, it will ship you a-flying If there is a disposition on your part to be sought, and then coaxed, and then implored. Opportunity is looking for some one who is ready and waiting to grab it. Don’t lose a second in catching on to opportunity any more than you want to luse a beat of that wonderful music by making a false step in the dance you enjoy.