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Finding Opportunities For Big Success is Easy

December 19, 2006 by Ben Yoskovitz

You just need to go look.

And you don’t even have to lift any heavy rocks.

The world is rife with opportunity.

Opportunities to:

  • start new businesses
  • help others
  • build communities
  • get out of your comfort zone
  • create challenges for yourself
  • succeed

2005 was my “Year of Living Under a Rock.”

2006 was my “Year of Moving the Damn Rock Out of the Way.”

I learned that there are tons of opportunities out there and they’re easy to find.

  1. Start blogging and once you have keep learning how to do it better. Remember: online friends are real. Take those online relationships seriously; grow them into personal and professional relationships.
  2. Get out there and meet people face-to-face.
  3. Be comfortable in your own skin and with your own abilities. You rock at something, don’t be afraid to tell people what it is.
  4. Know what you want. Tell people what you want. Tell people how you can help them.
  5. Follow up, stay friendly and have fun.

Those are the steps to opportunity-nirvana.

The biggest thing holding people back is that they’re not out there looking for opportunities. They’re not looking for ways to succeed.

Finding opportunities is easy. You just have to go look.

This is part of the What Have You Learned Group Writing Project. You can participate as well! Write a post about what you’ve learned in 2006, link it back to Instigator Blog and tell me about it.

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I’ve also submitted this post to Darren Rowse’s group writing project about reviews (of the past) and predictions (for the future.)

Filed Under: Entrepreneurship

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Ben Yoskovitz

Founding Partner at Highline Beta, a hybrid venture studio and VC firm that works with large, ambitious companies to identify new areas of opportunity through internal and external innovation.

Previously I was VP Product at VarageSale and GoInstant (acq. $CRM), and Founding Partner at Year One Labs.

Angel investments include: Breather, Spoiler Alert, SendWithUs and others.

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