Most of us want our opportunities gift wrapped. We want our lions stuffed or caged or cooked medium well and served on a silver platter. But opportunities typically present themselves at the most inopportune times as big, hairy, audacious problems, but lion-chasers don't see problems. They see 500-pound opportunities!
I love the way the Chinese language captures the two sides of this truth. The word "crisis" is made up of two characters - one means danger and the other means opportunity.
Problems are opportunities in diguise.
Chase the Lion - Mark Batterson
P.S.? I am so tempted to run out and get a tattoo of "Crisis" in Chinese (and I would. If it weren't for the possibility of ending up with something totally different without knowing it and spending the rest of my life with something like "bald monkey" or "sour feet" erroneously translated and tattooed instead.)
2 comments:
search the net and if you can find 3 separate sources that match go with it! also if you know anyone who knows Chinese that would be a good person to ask too (just verify what they tell you as well). and if you don't know where to get the work done we really like this place up in Oxford - have gotten all of our ink work done there.
and we are both due for more - as soon as we have some extra $
I think you should get cool words like rouillé or mohoso or Rostig or the cool italian word...rugginoso.
just a thought.
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