I want you to think about every paid community, every mastermind, every networking group you have ever been part of.

Ask yourself honestly whether you took full advantage of every resource, relationship, and opportunity that was sitting inside each of them.

I mean whether you actually extracted the full value of what was already in front of you.
If the answer is no, I want you to sit with one more question before you keep reading. What would need to change about how you show up to the resources you are already paying for, for you to feel like you are genuinely taking advantage of what is already in front of you?

Because I watched someone answer that question in real time this week. One of the entrepreneurs I have been working with closely over the last thirty days is also part of a paid networking group she had been thinking about leaving. She was in that room every week, same people, same conversations. And this week she realized that the client she is closest to closing right now has been sitting in that room with her the entire time.
She just could not see her yet because she was spread too thin to look.

And when she said that I immediately thought of something that happened to me a few years ago. I bought a Chevy Traverse and had no idea what one was before that day. I drove it off the lot and suddenly they were everywhere: every parking lot, every highway, every stoplight, like the whole world had bought one the same week I did.

They were always there. I just was not looking for them.

Guys. That is what focus does. It makes the opportunities that were already sitting there visible.

Before you tell yourself the opportunities are not there, look again. Look with one specific thing in mind and not everything at once. I would bet what you are looking for is already closer than you think.

— Jesse Stanton