Position yourself to receive, not resist.

How you see things on the outside of you depends on how things are on the inside of you, “Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure” (Norman Vicent Peale). Don’t pray for rain, if you’re going to complain about the mud.
“You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are” (Herb Cohen). Develop the hunter’s approach; the outlook that wherever you go there are ideas waiting to be discovered. When you are positioned right, opportunity presents itself; Opportunities can drop in your lap if you have your lap where opportunities drop.