Thanks, Wendy. I hope I helped you maybe decide to make more decisions.

Dennis – thank you for this wonderful post. I find this is so true in my life. Sometimes the tiny decisions don’t work out, but even when they don’t they still shape my life – usually in a positive way because I learn something from them. Thanks again!

Hmmm

By your reply I guess you somehow missed the point I was making, no big deal.

I enjoy the fact that you do, and did reply.

Just finished reading your “IM Success Secret Just Write It Report” and I must say that I really enjoyed it and would advise everyone to grab a copy and give it a read.

The Internet is changing and heading in a direction in which in order to succeed you are going to have to know how to write. And, you are going to have to do it on a regular if not daily basis.

Personally I welcome the change, and intend to take full advantage of it.

Great job Dennis

Good advice to your children, Ian.

As a further note, not to you directly, Ian, but most parents make their advice in negative ways: Don’t do this, don’t do that, if you do that, your face will be frozen that way, etc. That’s sort of telling children to be fearful of doing things, which isn’t good.

Not that it’s bad advice, but phrased in a positive way, such as “you look much more beautiful if you don’t frown” or something.

Great post Dennis… I have had many of those little decisions that I have acted on and had some amazing results. However, I see friends who hesitate making those small decisions and life has made the decision for them. I wonder how different their lives would have been if they had taken control and made the decisions.

I always tell my teenagers to make their own choices or life will make them for them. That advice has always served me well…

Cheers
Ian McConnell
Western Australia

That’s a very touching and inspiring story, Steve, thanks for sharing it.

Not that long ago, I came upon a blog where the author was talking about the pending birth of his first child. Interesting moment for me. For some reason I felt compelled to leave a post in a moment of ‘Parenthood Bonding’. After leaving this post (the first post I ever made, anywhere), a door opened, just a little. By making a small emotional investment it was as if the virtual community became somehow more real. Over the coming weeks that door opened more fully and I could see that, among other things, it was possible to achieve some degree of financial security, with the proper training. Several weeks later the newly anointed father, that I mentioned earlier, was starting a “Product Creation Class”. I signed up not realizing that this was the same person that I had posted to several weeks earlier. Now, this class was fast moving. Excellent content, and in its presentation, the instructor showed us just how creative we all could be.
My great fortune to be a part of this class became apparent during the second week of class. At this point a close friend became severely ill and passed on, as if, in a blink of an eye. So quick. It came upon me to write a brief poem in memory of this beautiful woman. It took the better part of a day as I sifted through the wonderful memories searching for just the write story to tell. As friends and family looked upon her resting, and read those words, I could see that my efforts were not in vain. Light tears, gentle smiles, a gentle passing.
Without that decision to post to a blog, it is unlikely that I would have been the person to write the words that helped ease a families sorrow, if only for a moment. So… while I began looking on the internet to see what financial opportunities might be available it turned out to be a much more valuable lesson about life, the connection that we all have to each other and a reminder of the significance of “tiny decisions”.

Eric, that’s a great example of how tiny decisions can change your lives tremendously. That’s why I always encourage people to do two things: get out of their comfort zone, and think outside the box.

Doing those two things can assist in making life changing decisions, though at the time you make them, you won’t know they’ll be life changing.

You just have to know that sometime, when least expected, something amazing will shape your life.

Great Post Dennis and right on the button as well. I was talking with a friend the other day about those small decisions can shape your future life. It is also similar to the people you meet. Some connections can alter your life tremendously. Had I not made the decision to go to a seminar encouraging students to go spend a year abroad in China 11 years ago I would not have packed my bag to Shanghai and been staying here since (only 3 of us made the trip that year in my school). I remember clearly I almost did not go to this seminar because my friends were planning to go to the beach that day. What would have happened had I been to the beach, who knows?
Opportunity can really be around the corner sometimes..

Thanks, Akshay, I’ll do my best, the comments certainly encourage me more than anyone knows.