Comments on: 7 Ways to Help Yourself Recognize Opportunity

By: Bobby

Bobby — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:18:27 +0000

Thanks for the post steve!

Definitely a good read.I have a few people i will be sharign this with

By: Roxanne

Roxanne — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:20:58 +0000

Excellent post! One of the best I’ve read online. It’s amazing what skills we take for granted until later in life when we look around and realize how many opportunities we’ve missed. Thank you!

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:17:39 +0000

Kudos. A good, quick Seven Steps. Normally, I wouldn’t bother commenting, but I read David Phd’s deflating comments and felt ‘compelled’. I rarely print out much from the internet, but your points rang true to me, particularly as a foil to my tendency toward negative thinking. Keep it up!

By: randy bragg

randy bragg — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 21:46:10 +0000

I have had to many times that i cant spit out a post and i just want to shot myself…

By: Rose Sylvia

Rose Sylvia — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 07:00:27 +0000

Thank you for having the courage to put yourself out there, knowing that for every person that loves what you write there will be others who will criticize. Each of us is doing the best we know how to do – even if intellectually we “know” something yet do not yet operate from our heart.

I am grateful for you and everyone else willing to write their truth as they currently experience it. Your writing has often blessed me and I wanted to let you know.

Rose

By: Matthew Cornell

Matthew Cornell — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 03:33:30 +0000

Thanks very much. I love particularly the idea of surprise and delight. I want to add more of that into my life, and to be receptive to them. I wrote a bit about it here, if anyone’s interested:

One way to enjoy the ride – celebrate surprise!
http://ideamatt.blogspot.com/2007/05/one-way-to-enjoy-ride-celebrate.html

By: Carm

Carm — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 16:07:55 +0000

I rarely comment…. Just read, absorb, and move on. But after the (PHD!!!!) I felt I should throw in a short comment. First, anyone who must put (PHD!!!!) after their name is rather insecure, I would think. I have degrees, no need to tell you about them to trust that you will take my comment for what it is worth. I’ve read self-help, I’ve watched Dr. Phil, I even was a motivational speaker and trainer for a few years. I know from my own experience and from what other’s tell me is you never know when you might learn something from something you’ve seen or read dozens of times before. It sometimes hits you like a bolt out of the blue… just like the inspiration you are helping us to find. Your list is concise and imaginative and fresh. I appreciate how it is a list about “opportunity,” which still requires personal involvement to recognize and utilize it.

By: Steve Mills

Steve Mills — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 05:01:32 +0000

I do agree with Dave a little that this top 7 lists can be quite trite and not really offer anything of value most of the time BUT you never know when there will be something on there that has meaning for you, and they are so quick and easy to digest that I can’t see the harm.

I am going to be writing about some self help / psychology / business ideas in depth and the convergence of those areas over the next few weeks

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By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 20:40:35 +0000

Dave,

I’m glad you’re not a troll. Thanks for getting back with a thoughtful comment. I do appreciate them. Funny, in a way, I do agree somewhat and I’m glad you’ve started a site. Feel free to leave a link in the comments when it is ready.

Glittering platitudes. Yep they are everywhere and frequently contradict each other.

The self-help list post is what seems to bother you and they bother me too, sometimes. I had great success with this blog in the first 5 months using frequent list posts. I tried going without them for the next six months and my traffic bombed. I’ve brought them back and guess what… my traffic is back.

People are busy and they like quick hitting hints that will help them with their lives and that is why the list posts are so popular. They may be somewhat shallow on substance, but if some people start journaling more because of this post, I believe it has done the world some good. If it helps them spot opportunities they’ve overlooked, even better. I journal everyday and it helps me spot opportunities I would have never seen if I hadn’t been writing. I’ve made writing a daily habit and it has changed my life.

I love self-help stuff, some of it is fantastic and some of it is useless. But let me tell you one little story…

An old alcoholic once told me, “I’ve been going to AA meetings for 30 years and I haven’t heard anything new in 29. But it keeps me sober and growing and reminds me to take care of myself. It doesn’t need to be fresh and new all the time. Think about what works and make it a habit”

Everything useful doesn’t have to be fresh!

Self-help is a lot the same way. If you get people thinking about business and opportunity they are more likely to spot it and develop positive habits around their daily routine.

Anyway,
Thanks for coming back and I apologize for calling you a troll.

And Dave, maybe you don’t need this self-help stuff but a lot of us do. We’ve been educated to think very destructive limiting things about ourselves and our world and this blog is my antidote. It works for me.