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    The Opportunity Bus: How to Seize the Opportunities That Come by Your Request Bus Stop
    The Opportunity Bus: How to Seize the Opportunities That Come by Your Request Bus Stop
    The Opportunity Bus: How to Seize the Opportunities That Come by Your Request Bus Stop
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    The Opportunity Bus: How to Seize the Opportunities That Come by Your Request Bus Stop

    By Ennio Vita-Finzi

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    Tired of your career? Maybe it's time to switch directions. If you're open to change and willing to do some exploring, then you need to take advantage of The Opportunity Bus. The bus operates continuously, providing transportation to new experiences and adventures-if you step on board when it stops.

    Following his own philosophy, Ennio Vita-Finzi describes the opportunities he seized through his optimistic jaunt through life. Known as a "human energy source with no reverse gear," Vita-Finzi seizes the most out of a life that has taken him around the world. He's had careers in air transportation, banking, and the service sector, was a trade commissioner in Western Europe, South America, and the United States, and managed four companies in Canada and Mexico.

    In addition to creating two consulting companies in Canada, Vita-Finzi has also been an actor, travel agent, cartoonist, headhunter, martial artist, and telemarketer. Add to his list university lecturer, musician, street vendor, public speaker, tour guide, antique dealer, and a college and university teacher, and you'll see that Vita-Finzi is living proof of how you, too, can create a life bursting with possibilities.

    A guide for like-minded and adventurous career travelers who are willing to seek their own unique paths, The Opportunity Bus is waiting-will you hop on?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateOct 4, 2007
    ISBN9780595897124
    The Opportunity Bus: How to Seize the Opportunities That Come by Your Request Bus Stop
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    Ennio Vita-Finzi

    Ennio Vita-Finzi was born on a British ship off Australia to Russian-Italian parents. Educated in Argentina, England, and Canada, he has lived and worked in North and South America, Western Europe, and East Asia. Vita-Finzi resides in Montreal, Canada, where he writes, paints, plays the piano, teaches executives, and entertains audiences.

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      The Opportunity Bus - Ennio Vita-Finzi

      THE OPPORTUNITY

      BUS

      How to seize the opportunities that come

      by your Request Bus Stop

      Ennio Vita-Finzi

      Author of Let Me Tell You a Story

      iUniverse, Inc.

      New York Lincoln Shanghai

      THE OPPORTUNITY BUS

      How to seize the opportunities that come by your Request Bus Stop

      Copyright © 2007 by Ennio Vita-Finzi

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      iUniverse books may be ordered through booksellers or by contacting:

      iUniverse

      2021 Pine Lake Road, Suite 100

      Lincoln, NE 68512

      www.iuniverse.com

      1-800-Authors (1-800-288-4677)

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any Web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid.

      The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      ISBN: 978-0-595-45399-3 (pbk)

      ISBN: 978-0-595-70296-1 (cloth)

      ISBN: 978-0-595-89712-4 (ebk)

      Printed in the United States of America

      To all members of my loving family, loyal friends, enthusiastic audiences, inquisitive students and in particular, my professional editor, steadfast supporter, faithful advisor, affectionate mentor, farsighted oracle and devoted wife, Carole.

      Contents

      INTRODUCTION

      1DISCOVERY

      Beliefs vary

      A personal gift

      A teenager’s decision

      2 OUR WAY OF LIFE

      Trust and Expectations

      Who’s running things?

      General traps

      Professional traps

      Societal traps

      The media

      Our own way within The System

      Attitude and expectations

      There is NO evil plan

      3 THE OPPORTUNITY BUS

      How the bus stopped at MY stop

      Beating the odds

      Language schoolroom on a London bus

      A metaphor for life

      Opportunity-hunting

      How does the Opportunity Bus work?

      People who search for the right bus

      Bad genes

      Background

      Lucky

      Visualizing situations

      Attitude

      4 REAL BUS ADVENTURES

      The Children’s Bus

      We Can Drive Someone Else’s Bus

      Passengers On The Bus Can Help Too

      The Slow Bus

      Run Over By Life

      The Express Bus

      Requesting A Bus For Others

      Construction Detour

      World-wide bus system

      Getting Pushed Onto The Right Bus

      You’re On The Right Bus … And Maybe The Others Are Not

      Getting Pushed Off Your Bus

      The Teacher Is The Bus

      CONCLUSION

      EPILOGUE

      APPENDIX

      The 5 Ws Roadmap

      List of my 40+ jobs and activities

      INTRODUCTION 

      You’ve had more than FORTY jobs? is the incredulous question that potential employers have always asked me when they check my employment history. When I reply that I’ve had so many jobs because I have never been able to turn down an opportunity to try something new, they usually roll their eyes and shake their head in disbelief.

      Life has provided me with numerous challenges and opportunities to change, improve, learn, grow, move in a new direction, or even choose to stay exactly where I was. Apart from being acutely aware that most of these opportunities brought a certain amount of challenge with the changes, I always welcomed it and tried to take advantage of it some way.

      I admit that I may have missed a few opportunities, but the fact that they presented themselves to me on a regular basis made me wonder if similar opportunities were available to everybody else. As I got older I realized that opportunities were coming to me because I was open to new ideas and experiences, ready to embark on a new path at any time even if I didn’t know exactly where it was taking me.

      The Opportunity Bus metaphor came to me while in my teens and living in England. One day, standing at a Request Bus Stop in London I realized that life was like that: if you want a new opportunity, you ask for the Opportunity Bus to stop for you and then you get on it. To stop a Bus I needed to stick my hand out and if I didn’t, the Opportunity

      Bus would go right by me and I might have lost a life-changing opportunity.

      This book is therefore an account of where and how the Opportunity Bus affected my own life, as well as a description of a number of others’ life stories. As you read about some of the people I have met, you will see that many opportunities were presented and seized, while sometimes opportunities for change were almost thrust upon an individual. In every case however, the result was a significant and adventurous change in each person’s life. While the stories you will read refer to both men and women, for the purposes of this book I will use the male gender throughout for easier reading.

      1

      DISCOVERY 

      Beliefs vary 

      What I describe as The SYSTEM may also be called a variety of names by others. Some call it the Source or a Higher Power. Of course God is popular, as well as Allah, Buddha, Brahman and other names in various parts of the world where people rely on various forms of organized religion to help them, particularly in their moments of trouble. Others, when they need to make contact with a helpful figure that their teachings have identified may call on Jesus or Mohammad for help, while others may call on the Eternal Consciousness when seeking guidance or support.

      More informal or lighthearted souls will simply refer to the miracle of our lives as Nature and when things go wrong, others may blame it on a temporary streak of bad luck. Of course, when things don’t go the way we want them to, they get a lot of blame in our society. They usually refers to whoever we believe is in charge: the government, our bosses, the police or anyone who is perceived to have more power than ourselves.

      From a religious point of view there are many who imagine a vague, all-powerful and generally benevolent entity hovering above, watching over them—and the more imaginative believe that inhabitants of other planets have us all on their intergalactic Petri dishes, studying us through giant microscopes and performing experiments on our minds and bodies, naturally without our conscious knowledge.

      Then there are millions of agnostics who refuse to believe that anything can be known about the existence or nature of a higher power and others who won’t consider the idea that a God or a System even exists. Atheists will not accept the concept of any kind of deity and use dry scientific logic to describe why and how things work. When pressed, they usually cannot fully explain the complexity of the human body or how and why the world around us exists at all. They quote Big Bang theories and when queried about the possibility of metaphysical reasons for our very existence they vehemently deny any such forces exist. When pushed to the limit, many defensively state that life just is—that nature simply is—that the process of being born, living complex lives and eventually dying are certainly not part of any great metaphysical plan, religion or belief.

      At a certain point in all such discussions scientists eventually cannot support their theories with further so-called facts. At those

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