<p><span>In this article you will learn the following</span><br></p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">-49 Tips How to become an empowering opportunist </b></p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">-42 Traits to identify and beware-of - the predatory opportunists who are manipulator with very toxic and harmful personality disorders</b></p><p>-<b data-redactor-tag="b">9 Types of different personality mindsets</b></p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">Become an empowering opportunist</b></p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">The word opportunist is considered by most people as negative</b> one - <b data-redactor-tag="b">BUT - here in this article I am differentiating between good-opportunist and bad-toxic-manipulating opportunist</b>.</p><p>The tips given in this article is on - <b data-redactor-tag="b">how to become a person who looks for opportunities</b>, who is able to identify, notice and recognize opportunities AND <b data-redactor-tag="b">who also is able to encash opportunities</b> PLUS who <b data-redactor-tag="b">works for the betterment of others</b>.</p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">All of us time to time might transit through the different moods and mindsets of being either</b> - a pessimist, an optimist, a realist, an escapist or an opportunist.</p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">As long as these are temporary and you bounce back from the un-resourceful and disempowering mindsets</b> to an empowering one - it is perfectly alright.</p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">Living a life with negative, harmful and damaging mindset</b> - can have long-term impact on yourself as well as on people around you.</p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">Pessimists often interpret negative events as</b> internal, global, and stable - whereas <b data-redactor-tag="b">positive events for them are </b>temporary and unstable </p><p>In this article we will discuss - <b data-redactor-tag="b">how to be a positive empowering opportunist - instead of being a predatory and harmful opportunist</b>.</p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">All the great thinkers balance optimism and pessimism</b> - because always seeing the world through rose-colored glasses or seeing with catastrophic eyes -<b data-redactor-tag="b">can become a perfect recipes for hurts, pains, stress, frustrations and disappointments</b>.</p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">Strategic cynicism has its advantage - that happens through being an aware cynic to be able to see through</b> false hopes or scams and cons. </p><p>You can both be hopeful and expect the worse at the same time - so as to be prepared to deal with worst case scenarios as well as enjoy the journey when the going is good - to have a healthy mental state.</p><p>For your own as well as for your most loved ones - Be the good opportunist who takes every opportunity to contribute towards a greater good.</p><p>Being aware of the realities and how things work - actually works a lot in your favor.</p><p><b data-redactor-tag="b">49 Tips How to become an empowering opportunist - </b>most of the one sentence tips have detailed do it yourself articles and answers among 900+ blogs in my two websites & 2000+ answers in my Quora page<b data-redactor-tag="b"></b></p> <ul><li>1.There are many ways to adjust our mindsets to promote a healthy, positive approach to problems.</li> <li>2.In fact, a combination of realism and optimism enables us to maintain positivity while bracing ourselves for disappointment.</li> <li>3.Fortunately, our explanatory styles can be changed.</li> <li>4.<b data-redactor-tag="b">Identify what change you want to see happen - then take actions</b> which facilitates and promotes such change -start small - where wherever you are right now</li> <li>5.Express yourself without becoming concerned about what others would think</li> <li>6.Learn to maintain both flexibility and direction</li> <li>7.<b data-redactor-tag="b">Use the thinking tools to broaden your thinking and creativity as well as seeing the possibilities like </b>- 6 thinking hats, decision tree, mind-maps, MECE and issue-tree etc.</li> <li>8.<b data-redactor-tag="b">Train you mind to look for the opportunity as well as</b> <b data-redactor-tag="b">learnings</b> - whenever you get stuck or face some very challenging situation or disruptive crisis </li> <li>9.<b data-redactor-tag="b">Develop strategic opportunism to follow-through on you long-term</b> goals</li> <li>10.Develop healthy and empowering habits of mind </li> <li>11.Learn to develop and use your 42 types of intelligence - read my blog on this</li> <li>12.<b data-redactor-tag="b">Learn how you will bounce back from failures</b></li> <li>13.Learn to take calculated challenges</li> <li>14.Learn to be comfortable with uncertainties and fast changing professional, social, political, economic situations</li> <li>15.Read my blog - 35 tips how to be optimistic-realist - for additional tips on how to make your life blessed and blissful</li> <li>16.Explore and focus on what is working</li> <li>17.Solve all the nagging problems first - so as to give your full attention to what is most important to you </li> <li>18.Identify your larger picture and your core-values - base your major decisions. Priorities and actions on these </li> <li>19.Learn to experiment, try new ways of doing things</li> <li>20.Make your routine energetic and exciting - do something spontaneous that you have always wanted to do</li> <li>21.Be foolish to make mistake and learn to be wise</li> <li>22.Feel your fear and take actions to become courageous</li> <li>23.Be vulnerable and accept your mistakes, weakness and failures and then correct them to become strong</li> <li>24.Listen well - observe better and note down the ideas you hear or innovations that makes you excited - build on these</li> <li>25.Find ways to utilize and benefit by solving the problems that are being faced by masses </li> <li>26.Have an inspiring vision</li> <li>27.<b data-redactor-tag="b">Whenever you get a spark of idea - take actions</b> - if it fails does not matter <b data-redactor-tag="b">as you will be able to develop resilience</b> and a capacity for taking actions and risks</li> <li>28.<b data-redactor-tag="b">Learn to identify trends - for what changes and are taking place in your professional, career and social front</b> - take proactive action to upgrade your skills, knowledge and expertise to give the competitive edge and competitive advantage</li> <li>29.<b data-redactor-tag="b">Never play politics to gain benefits</b> - instead create situation that <b data-redactor-tag="b">makes you conquer the world on merit</b></li> <li>30.<b data-redactor-tag="b">Learn to recognize and seize the opportunities - don't worry about taking actions on false opportunities</b> - it is about making your psyche tuned to the opportunities</li> <li>31.Develop the mindset of opportunistic entrepreneur</li> <li>32.<b data-redactor-tag="b">Seek out new problems to solve - even if does not concern</b> you <b data-redactor-tag="b">immediately</b> - proactively put yourself in new uncertain situations</li> <li>33.<b data-redactor-tag="b">Innovate more - learn the best practices from the world from different field than yours</b> and apply them in your situation - read more, learn more, update yourself constantly</li> <li>34.Create and maintain and nurture professional and social network - which is of very high quality</li> <li><b data-redactor-tag="b">35.</b><b data-redactor-tag="b">Keep thinking about creating a new breakthrough technology or innovative discovery</b></li> <li>36.Focus on progress ditch perfection</li> <li>37.Become a great story teller - to enroll your supporters and funders</li> <li>38.Be a person who always notices new opportunities - regardless of the risks </li> <li>39.Become highly adaptable mentally and emotionally</li> <li>40.Be driven to succeed and make the world a better place</li> <li>41.Treat every chance to grow and improve yourself</li> <li>42.<b data-redactor-tag="b">Keep yourself in the company of highly positive and energetic and successful </b>people who motivate, inspire and uplift you</li> <li>43.Adjust, revise, change your expectations</li> <li>44.Start noticing and enjoying the small things</li> <li>45.<b data-redactor-tag="b">Stop postponing happiness for big events in life -be aware of the smaller, more frequent aspects of life</b> that uplifts your moods and psych</li> <li>46.Become a realist - learn to view things in balance and moderation</li> <li>47.Practice gratitude - <b data-redactor-tag="b">learn to plan your day in such a way that you start the day on a positive note</b> - Every day choose to do something creative</li> <li><b data-redactor-tag="b">48.</b><b data-redactor-tag="b">Don't give a shit to small things don't sweat the small stuff - stop being major in minor insignificant issues</b></li> <li><a name="resources"></a>49.Learn to identify existing find silver linings - whenever you become aware of going into gloom </li> <li>50.Find your happiness what's important is you feel happy and content about yourself and your decisions</li></ul> <p><b data-redactor-tag="b">42 Traits to identify and beware-of - the predatory opportunists who are manipulator with very toxic and harmful personality disorders</b></p> <ul><li>1.<b data-redactor-tag="b">Now a days the world is full of predatory opportunists - which is true especially for India in its current situation</b></li> <li>2.<b data-redactor-tag="b">This type of opportunist - is a manipulator, a person who tries to take advantage even the most inhuman situations</b> as well as creates these conditions deliberately.</li> <li>3.<b data-redactor-tag="b">They don't have any plan to do any good</b> - except helping their friends</li> <li>4.<b data-redactor-tag="b">They would make tall claims</b> - without ever demonstrating any supporting and corroborating evidence </li> <li>5.They take advantage of every person especially the weak ones - without any remorse</li> <li>6.They are expert in subtly creating opportunities to abuse or exploit others </li> <li>7.<b data-redactor-tag="b">They are what is described as disturbed characters</b> - who are not bothered about rightness or wrongness of something when they see an opportunity for personal gain or profit</li> <li>8.They are driven by personal need of power, glory, money and control </li> <li>9.<b data-redactor-tag="b">They are highly hypocrite and project what they are on to others - if they are coward they will call others coward</b> - if they are selling their country they will accuse others of doing it - if they are tyrannical authoritative dictators they will call others</li> <li>10.They create lies and suppress truth</li> <li>11.<b data-redactor-tag="b">They use all powers that they have - unfortunately many people also looking for power and to satisfy their greed join them</b> and support them</li> <li>12.They have a very high false sense of entitlement</li> <li>13.They can never take responsibilities</li> <li>14.They look for gratifications all the time</li> <li>15.For them it is all about me, myself, mine - generally relationship does not matter to them unless it is giving them advantage</li> <li><b data-redactor-tag="b">16.</b><b data-redactor-tag="b">They are first to blame others and make excuses - when things go wrong</b></li> <li>17.They also take credit of others shamelessly </li> <li>18.<b data-redactor-tag="b">They have weak personality and can be fooled by flattery anytime</b></li> <li>19.They don't have any sense of boundaries - they never respect anyone's boundaries</li> <li>20.They have the mindset of always taking - never giving something back </li> <li>21.They often have narcissistic, megalomaniac and other personality disorders</li> <li>22.<b data-redactor-tag="b">They thrive on show-off and publicity</b> - they always want to be in limelight - they will even hg limelight from others</li> <li>23.They will drop names if it suits them</li> <li>24.<b data-redactor-tag="b">They will also invent false grandiose accomplishments and qualifications</b> - for which there is no evidence</li> <li>25.They are always focused on making others lose</li> <li>26.They treat relationship as transactional</li> <li>27.They will get you in trouble</li> <li>28.They always downplay others success and accomplishments</li> <li>29.For them either you are with them or against them </li> <li>30.They always want you to agree with them</li> <li>31.They act differently around other people</li> <li>32.Most of the time they talk about themselves</li> <li>33.<b data-redactor-tag="b">They break their promises almost as a routine</b> - in fact they will never remember their making one</li> <li>34.They will have visible not psychopathic traits </li> <li>35.They are cold and calculating and utmost selfish</li> <li>36.They have complete absence of empathy, guilt, regret </li> <li>37.They can be highly charming </li> <li>38.Many of these characters get into positions of extreme power</li> <li>39.<b data-redactor-tag="b">When they attack you - you can be sure that they have seen your weakest lin</b>k </li> <li>40.They use emotional and other types of blackmail techniques</li> <li>41.<b data-redactor-tag="b">They present the persona which favor them at that time </b>- and they can become opposite in another situation</li></ul> <p><b data-redactor-tag="b">9 Types of different personality mindsets</b></p> <ul><li>1.Pessimists - 1. <b data-redactor-tag="b">Defensive Pessimist</b> 2. <b data-redactor-tag="b">Depressing Pessimist</b> 3.<b data-redactor-tag="b">Realistic pessimists</b> </li> <li>2.Optimists - 1. <b data-redactor-tag="b">Unrealistic Optimists</b> 2. <b data-redactor-tag="b">Realistic Optimists</b></li> <li>3.<b data-redactor-tag="b">Realists</b> - who are focused on cold facts</li> <li><b data-redactor-tag="b">4.</b>Opportunists - 1. <b data-redactor-tag="b">Predatory and harmful opportunists</b> 2. <b data-redactor-tag="b">Positive empowering opportunists </b></li> <li>5.<b data-redactor-tag="b">Escapists</b> - person who is removed from reality and might engage in unhealthy full time day-dreaming to ignore and avoid the reality [<b data-redactor-tag="b">dreaming of good things which would happen through miracle</b> or <b data-redactor-tag="b">how the current situation could have been different if certain things had happened</b>]</li></ul><div>#opportunist, #goodopportunist, #badopportunist, #becominggoodopportunist, #empoweringopportunist, #howtoidentifytoxicmanipulatingopportunist, #howtonoticeopportunities, #howtoidentifyopportunities, #howtoseizeopportunities, #Cynic, #strategiccynicism, #typesofpersonalitymindsets, #empoweringopportunist, #positiveopportunist, #predatoryopportunist<span class="redactor-invisible-space"></span><br></div>