open your eyes!!!! are you missing out on something cool?

6 replies
Watching TV the other night, I was watchin a Derran Brown programme, for those of you who dont know who he is, he is like an hypnotist/mind reader. He tells things like it is and goes into alot of detail about human perceptions, behaviour and phycology. The one the other night was talking about luck and can it be influenced? what makes someone luckier than another? One guy on there was a Butcher and claims he never has any goodluck and deemed himself an unlucky person! so Derren Brown set out to find out why he was so unlucky.
First of all they popped a couple of winning scratch cards in with his post the following morning, when he received his post he threw the scratch cards straight in the bin deeming them to be spammy mail.
The next day they set up a lady in the street to be asking people to complete a simple survey and offering a cash reward of £20 to anyone who stopped and answered 5 mins of questions, they even set the topic of favourite meat cuts (his specialist subject) Loads of people stopped and answered the questions and received £20 cash. When he walked past the lady she asked if he'd stop and answer her survey, he said "sorry im a bit busy, I'll come back in a little while and do it" Guess what? he didnt
The following day they put a £50 note on the floor in his path along the street to see if he picked it up, Guess what? he didnt even notice it and walked right past.
Finally they got a large lorry with his name "wayne" written on the side saying "WAYNE - RING THIS NUMBER 07891********" Guess what? they drove that van past him several time through the day before he took any notice and dialled the number.

The conclusion was that No one person is luckier than the next, we really do make our own luck. Derren called these opportunities! throughout any given day we are presented with opportun ities on numerous occasions, some people take these opportunities and some people like Wayne the butcher choose to ignore them as deep down they beleive they are not lucky people and opportunities will simply not present themselves to them.


It was an interesting programme, Im sure if you searched on you tube you could locate the episode, but It got me thinking how this could apply to the online world!!! Do the more successful marketers notice opportunities that less successful ones do? Or how many opportunities a day do you think you might be missing out on?

Maybe, just maybe if we all opened our eyes a bit more and explored things we wouldnt normally explore online that we could acheive more than we thought possible!!!!

Sorry for the long post, but I firmly beleive the right mindset is what sets apart success from failure!

Thanks for reading! Just had to get my thoughts down on paper as it were!

Have a great day all and look out for those unseen opportunities
#cool #eyes #missing #open
  • Profile picture of the author Daniel Evans
    I watched it. It was a good show.

    It's true that we create our own luck based upon how we embrace opportunity.

    If we gear our minds into thinking we are "lucky" then we are more prone to grabbing opportunity when it presents itself and visa versa.
    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[5094856].message }}
  • Profile picture of the author David McKee
    I don't live in the UK, but the premise of the show has been often discussed through the ages - the "secret" to success and making the most of opportunity is to know that your subconscious mind will do exactly what you tell it to do. If you are constantly telling it that you are "Unlucky" and "Not to look for opportunities" (because you believe there are none) - that is exactly what your subconscious mind will do.

    And, if on the other hand, you tell your subconscious mind that there is opportunity everywhere, and to keep a sharp eye out for it, guess what? Your amazing subconscious mind will do that as well!

    If you are taught this by your parents at an early age (you are blessed beyond words if so) then you will grow up believing and using this method all your life and it will seem so obvious that you probably would not even notice - and the opposite is also true. That is why "Lucky" people seem to come from "Lucky" families, and the unlucky seem to also come from a familial line.

    Only if you recognize the truth behind this, and apply it - then, as Jesus said, with enough faith (belief) you can move a mountain into the sea.

    We need more of that programming here in the states! (and a little less of the glorification of losers which we seem to revel in on TV nowadays).

    -DTM
    Signature
    Are you an affiliate marketer? My site has tons of free stuff and 14,000 pages of Clickbank research. www.affiliatesledgehammer.com
    Buy a Freedom Bulb! Don't let the government tell you what kind of light bulb you can use!
    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[5094973].message }}
  • Profile picture of the author hardraysnight
    something cool?

    i thought it was ice cream
    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[5094987].message }}
  • Profile picture of the author paulpower
    I could not agree more with you Louie, sometimes we never really notice what is right in front of us, and this is where we lose our opportunities.

    As for making our own luck, if you have not already either read or viewed it, I recommend the secret. It really helped me to focus on more of I actually wanted in my life, as opposed to the stuff that I did not.
    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[5095375].message }}
  • Profile picture of the author TolyZ
    Great read! I totally agree
    Signature
    Professional SEO Company marketing1on1.com that gets results.
    BuyBacklinksCheap.com
    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[5095851].message }}
  • Profile picture of the author Melvin San Miguel
    I agree, we do need to open our our eyes everyday to opportunities that could be staring at us in the face, these quotes sum it all up for me.

    "You create your own universe as you go along" Winston Churchill
    "What we think about and THANK about is what we bring about"
    Signature

    FREE Make Money Every 30 Mins VIDEO Series.... http://turbocashflow.net/

    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[5096068].message }}

Trending Topics