We all come across these moments in our careers: something shifts, and suddenly we find ourselves in a bigger role than the one we signed up for.
That “something” that changed could be many things, but the most common is someone who was senior to us quitting or taking on a new role.
This shift creates an opening.
And the question is: what are we going to do with it?
We’ve known for a while that we could play bigger, that we don’t feel as seen as we want to, that we are a bundle of as-yet-unrealized potential.
At the same time, we must fight our natural sense of inertia—the object that we are tends to stay in motion in the direction it has been heading—and we carry with us, always, a dollop of fear.
The Opening moment is the perfect chance to do away with all of this: a gap not of our making has appeared, and the downside to stepping up is almost zero.
So why not take a swing? Why not you? Why not now?
Quietly, there are lots of people rooting for you, lots of people who believe in you, people who know you are ready for the next thing.
This is what opportunity looks like.
Go ahead and grab it.
