I was sitting outside this morning watching the automatic vacuum in the pool trying to vacuum when something out of the blue hit me. Thinking back to when I was on google doing all those searches. You know the ones, Online Work from home, online opportunities from home, make money from home, etc etc. Those were the days I was trying to create my own opportunity. Well it worked, but this morning I was looking back at all the opportunities I let slip by and lead me to write about it.

If each of you truly sit back and think about it uninterupted for 5 minutes, you will come up with many opportunities that presented themselves to you but for whatever reason we allowed to slip by us. Whether it is in your day to day job, your work from home opportunity or just life itself. It the span of drinking my two cups of coffee this am I thought of 9 opportunities I let slip by without acting on them. Some I even let slip by knowing I was allowing it, but felt I needed to at the time.

I'll give a example of this, in 1996 I was a Quality Engineer for a manufacturing company, and was given the chance to move up to a Production Manager {something I have always wanted to do}. Well my dad was on his death bed at the time, and I lived 350 miles away due to my job. So I was presented with an opportunity, but also a personal decision. I chose my dad, moved back to where he and my mom lived and gave up not only a promotion but the job I held for several years. I don't regret the decision I made for a second, but wonder where I might be if I had took that promotion. By the way, I moved back home in April of 1997 and my dad passed in December of 1997.

But what about opportunities that we let pass for no good reason? I think about my move from the world of manufacturing that I had known all my life to the world that was unknown to me at the time, the world of internet marketing. Sure I made the move, so very glad I did now, but I tried for over a month to talk myself out of it. I came up with great excuses too, felt I had better stay in that comfort zone. You know the excuses if you have made a similar move, health insurance, no established paycheck. On a side note, I find the no established paycheck very ironic now as I didn't have that when I did have the day to day job. We were off as much as we worked. So my excuse didn't even make sense, but to me at the time it did!

So why do we allow these opportunities to pass? It is truly human nature to resist change, our daily routine feels like the norm so we want to stay in it. We can see all these people making the moves that convert them from "have nots" to "haves", but we still are afraid of what might happen. Of course if we were truly honest with ourself we would look at the economy and realize those things we think are safe are really not that safe at all. Watch the news and you will see how many people are shocked that there company is cutting back or closing.

In closing, I challenge watch of you to watch for that opportunity. And when it presents itself to you, be ready and act. How many times in life have we said, "oh I would never be able to do that". That is what I said when I first looked at my opportunity, but look today. The sky is the limit, because I went after my opportunity and would not allow failure. Do the same for yourself.

Thank You for your Time,

Doug Danley