September
23
2007
You say you don’t get any opportunities? THEN QUIT!
Posted by tom under the category Education, IdeasHarsh? Maybe…Let me explain.
Over the last couple of days I had been complaining to my mother saying that nothing was working for me, and that I just didn’t seem to be having any good ideas or getting any opportunites come my way. It seemed like everyone was making money but me, everyone was getting opportunities but me.
Ever felt like that?
It got me thinking. All these people making the ‘big dollars’ online did they get lucky? Was it all chocolates and roses?
I went to a friends 18th birthday the other night. It was a good party and all, but I am the typical wall flower, I find big crowds daunting so I usually just chat to the people I know. So here I was talking to a friend of mine who is the typical ‘computer nerd’, now I’m not saying this as a payout he is so smart when it comes to any type of programming.
And I was complaining to him about what I was just saying. I went on saying, Myspace, Youtube, and all the other big websites - they are such simple ideas, why is it that we can never get good ideas. It always seems that everything that we think of has already been done.
You know what my friend said to me?
He said everyone has good ideas - but we usually see them as too hard, or that we don’t have the talent or the money, the successful people that do make it big see the potential and make it work.
It reminds me of a quote I once read by Thomas Edison:
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Once I took a hold of that it all started to fall into place!
When my perception changed I started seeing all the opportunities around me, and taking advantage of them.
The friend I was talking to was telling me about a project he was working on, that he wants me to help him with, I have had to offers to help promote ebooks from two different people (people I don’t even know), and things seem to be happening for me.
Change your perception or give up
Which brings me back to my blog title. If you are not seeing the opportunities around you maybe you need to make the perception switch that I made. It is an easy one - all you have to do is look at the offers that look like hard work, and see them as opportunities!
But if that seems to hard, then quit and go and work at McDonalds - I’m sure it is easier!
Hey you should put picture in your post so it motivate me to read - I honestly didn’t read all of it
Other than that sweet post! Believe in luck and you will meet luck wherever you wander!
Good point! I will try to add a picture to each post from now on!
I love that quote by Edison.
Any about pictures, I think that is a good idea - if you notice all the big blogs like John Chow and Copyblogger always seem to have an image in their posts.
Wow.. I am stupid..
When I did my latest post, I once again forgot to add a picture. I will have to have a post-it note on my monitor!
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