If you haven’t prepared yourself, the opportunity will go begging. It will be yet another regret in your life, another ‘if only …’ And even if you have prepared, but are too busy, probably buried in the minutiae of management, or a messy divorce, or moving house, or a hundred and one other things, then luck will again evade you. Months or years later you will be saying, ‘If only I had spotted that opportunity. I was ready for it, but I wasn’t paying attention.’ ‘If only …’ are the two saddest words in the English language.
