{"id":29,"date":"2026-06-17T18:35:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T18:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mr305injured.com\/blog\/?p=29"},"modified":"2026-06-17T18:35:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T18:35:24","slug":"the-best-opportunities-come-through-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mr305injured.com\/blog\/the-best-opportunities-come-through-people\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Opportunities Come Through People"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most opportunities don&#8217;t arrive as opportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They arrive as people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A conversation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An introduction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A recommendation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A relationship built over time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Looking back, many of the most important opportunities in my life didn&#8217;t come from a website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Or an advertisement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Or a business plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They came through someone who believed in me, encouraged me, introduced me, or opened a door.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s why relationships matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You never know which conversation will lead to a friendship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which friendship will lead to an opportunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Or which opportunity will change the direction of your life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Invest in people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The returns are often impossible to predict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2014 Dean Zusmer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most opportunities don&#8217;t arrive as opportunities. They arrive as people. A conversation. An introduction. A recommendation. A relationship built over time. Looking back, many of the most important opportunities in my life didn&#8217;t come from a website. Or an advertisement. Or a business plan. They came through someone who believed in me, encouraged me, introduced&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-growth","category-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mr305injured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mr305injured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mr305injured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mr305injured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mr305injured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mr305injured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30,"href":"https:\/\/mr305injured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mr305injured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mr305injured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mr305injured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}