You may be thinking of your great idea as an opportunity for gain, but you can always reframe it as an opportunity for avoiding loss.
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Now aged 42 and living in Sheffield, he looks back on his time at Vauxhall with fond memories and considers his job loss an opportunity.
"Not only is this a loss of opportunity for young people and a tragedy for families and individuals trapped at the bottom of the pile - it is also a massive loss of talent and creativity for our nation, " he said.
Increased political control over the allocation of capital will translate into the loss of opportunity for millions of Americans without the political connections or specialized skills necessary to fill out complex government forms and whose businesses are too small to hire a lawyer or lobbyist.
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Low adoption of Vue brewers would imply a loss of an opportunity to generate profits through the sale of brewers.
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Ineffective opportunity management eventually leads to loss of money, time, and positioning with customers who are (or should be) core customers.
But career experts say that maintaining a professional network while employed is the best way to prepare for the next unexpected job loss or advancement opportunity.
The U has an opportunity to learn that a loss of mission focus from its highest profile agent, viewed on television virtually every week this time of year, can be very costly.
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The program provides student-athletes with the opportunity to protect against future loss of earnings as a professional athlete, due to a disabling injury or sickness that may occur during the collegiate career.
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And that means stress for people already on weight loss programs and opportunity for companies like Weight Watchers (WTW) seeking a share of the money spent by guilt-ridden holiday over-eaters the morning after their New Years Eve binges.
Further monetary easing also helps gold since it adds to worries about inflation whenever an economic recovery takes hold, plus it means a low so-called opportunity cost, or the loss of interest earnings that investors might have gotten instead by holding yield-bearing assets.
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The Rafalca story, for example, gave me the opportunity to explain both the hobby loss rules and the passive activity loss rules.
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However, these parents were in anguish at the loss of a golden educational opportunity.
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Banahan seized his opportunity in the 33-26 non-cap loss to the Barbarians to earn a starting spot against the Pumas.
Hospitals can make money from all bariatric procedures, including gastric bypasses (in which the stomach is partitioned and the upper part connected directly to the small intestine), but the gastric band is a rare example of an opportunity for device-makers to profit from weight loss.
Many had no hearing loss at all, but were also given the opportunity to appreciate the music through their other senses, by feeling the vibrations or seeing a large visualisation of the performance on a big screen.
However, by combining the credits with book value depreciation of the property meant that corporations could receive the double-dip Congress had explicitly argued against individual receiving: with the passive loss provision still in place for corporations, the opportunity existed to take the tax liability and turn it into an investment for corporations.
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Savvy investors recognized economic weakness as well as a rising opportunity when unemployment was low and few people were concerned about job loss.
But his loss (and that of Jon Meecham) is an opportunity.
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Finally, investors can use a stop-loss strategy to mitigate greater losses should their assessment of the opportunity prove to be wrong.
American wrestlers are especially hurt by the loss of Olympic competition because the Games have offered a rare opportunity to greatly supplement meager incomes.
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This freeze in relations with Brazil, and Iran's gradual loss of allies in the region, also opens up further opportunity for the United Nations to impose and enforce additional sanctions on Iran.
So the lifting at the beginning of this year of textile-import quotas in Europe and America brought both an opportunity to exceed quota levels and a risk of loss of market share to a newly unfettered competitor.
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Reinstating Mr Baseotto would represent a loss of face especially for a president who has lost no opportunity to champion the victims of the dictatorship.
Then it will present an incredible opportunity to go long on yields (or short the bonds) with a nearby stop loss.
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And despite the obvious potential for opportunity, shoplifting has not increased with the installation of self-check out registers, says loss prevention experts.
We also believe the launch of Windows-based phones will be challenging, given the likely loss of traction and visibility of the Nokia brand, as well as the speed at which the opportunity for a third ecosystem to emerge is vanishing.
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Dhone, commander of the island's militia, grew concerned about the loss of traditional rights and when the English Parliament sent a fleet to the island he seized his opportunity, and negotiated its surrender in exchange for guarantees of these rights.
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