Editor's Guide 02-13-02: Lemonade Recipes

Summary:
In the new content on eSight this week, we talk about making the most of opportunities which often include not-so-perfect situations. Check our recipes for lemonade.

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"Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your
perfect offering. There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in."
- Leonard Cohen, Canadian singer and writer, from Anthem

While looking for quotations about "opportunity" this
week, I was surprised to find several that seemed
perfect for those of us who may have a faculty or two
shy of a full school district. Somehow the fact that
no one is truly whole occurs to these very quotable
writers as something profound. Apparently it hadn't
occurred to them that some of us (in fact, many of us)
may be acutely aware that we're all, in some way,
vulnerable.

Check these other gems:

"Life consists not in holding good cards but in
playing those you hold well."
- Josh Billings, American humorist (1818 - 1885)

"The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to
make the most possible out of the stuff that has been
given him. This is success, and there is no other."
- Orison Swett Marden, American founder of "Success"
magazine (1850 - 1924)

And the ever popular, "When fate hands you a lemon,
make lemonade."
- Dale Carnegie, American motivational speaker
and writer, (1888 - 1955)

Perhaps we can just take these bits of wisdom not
meant for us and embrace and magnify them for our own
use.

In the new content on eSight this week, we present a
few examples of recipes for lemonade. Each presents an
opportunity that, if not perceived because we're too
fixed instead on the problem, will move to the next
house upon receiving no answer to its knock on our
door.

In particular, we are excited to share a brand new
opportunity in the first of a series of new visitors
at your very doorstep -- opportunities to be involved
in building and prospering from six new forums.
Heralding the series is Liz Seger, who, last week,
launched "Ask eSight About Self-esteem," which you can
find in the Members Hub. Self-esteem itself is a major
ingredient in good lemonade recipes. Join the fun and
gain the personal power that comes with it.

Along with a review of a very large job site,
FlipDog.com, job seekers can consider the
opportunities presented to them in "Ticket to Work
Program: An Overview," an On-The-Job Ramp offering.
This is a new chance for anyone on SSA/SSDI to have
their cake and eat it, too. Washed down with lemonade,
no doubt. And be sure to check Dino Manalis'
new "Ticket to Work FAQ," a place to ask questions and
get answers to them about Ticket to Work -- the launch
of our second of six forums that will debut over the
next several weeks.

I wish I had a dollar for every time I heard someone
complain that the Internet is beyond their reach for
some imagined reason or other. With those dollars, I
could pay for my own Internet access for a year! There
are a number of ways you can get access, and we set
forth five resources which present those options for
entrepreneurs in "Available Options For Internet
Access" (Entrepreneurial Junction). Don't miss
"opportunity" because you answered the wrong door when
it came knocking.

Finally, to those employers who say that resistance
from their existing employees is the major barrier to
a more inclusive workplace, we respond, "Don't let bad
attitudes block your way to the door when opportunity
knocks!" Instead, take the opportunity to create a
more productive team because teaching staff to value
each other has an inevitably beneficial impact on the
bottom line. Employer Connection can help by telling
you "How to Foster a Work Environment That Values
Employees With Disabilities."

When opportunity knocks" be there!

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