Survival Till You Get Oppurtunity

Today morning, I was watching Animal Planet and there was one program called Animal Fight. In one of those stories, they showed one short film in which one leopard approaches one half left corpse of one animal. Seeing no one around, it starts eating that. Soon, one lioness nearby spots it and comes and attacks the leopard. The leopard does not get any opportunity to run. Within no time two more lions come and attack it. The leopard knows its body too well. So it lies down and just punches whichever lion comes near it. It is fully aware that if its tries to run away and shows its back, the lions can break its spine and it will surely be killed. For the leopard, it was all about keeping its spine away from the lions, lying back and just keep the lions away by attacking them with its sharp nails. The lions also get tired and take few minutes break before attacking leopard again. They take a second break. Just during the break, one hyena comes near them which takes away the lions attention just for few seconds.

This was just the opportunity for which leopard was waiting and within seconds it ran away. Despite being chased by one lion, it managed to run on the tree and escape from certain death.
You can view the video here.
Taking the Opportunity

 There was important lesson for life & business here. We face similar situations in business, when we are surrounded by dangers which can end our business. But knowing & playing to your strengths and taking some time just to live till you get the next opportunity is equally important. While keeping yourself alive, you should be continuously alert for that opportunity, when you can get a new lease of life. You need to sustain your business just so that you can get another opportunity in the next partner/idea/place so that you can come into your own. So keep fighting till you get next opportunity to save yourself and get a new business. Similar things have happened with many startups wherein models have been tweaked around, business have been changed and in the second 'Avatar' they are more successful. Snapdeal was a coupon/group deal company earlier before they snapped the opportunity for a marketplace model and to become one of the few big E-commerce companies in India.