Posted by Amir Lehrer on February 11, 2009
Facebook recorded 5 million additional notes written over the past week. Someone started this little viral exercise of writing 25 random notes about themselves and then tagging 25 of their friends with a request for them to do the same. I am joining the millions of others in writing 25 random facts about myself because of my random fact number 1. I am doing it a little differently than everyone else since I am posting it on this blog as opposed to on Facebook like everyone else. The theme of this blog is about finding opportunities all around us and taking advantage of them to increase our luck. I took this opportunity to invite 25+ people to my blog. I challege you to find a way to take advantage of this opportunity as well.
1. I am only writing this because my wife tagged me and said that I had to and I would do anything to make my wife happy.
2. I own a whole bunch of domain names but I can justify it since most of the sites more than cover their costs.
3. I first logged onto the internet in 1995 and I had no idea what to do. I accidently found a chat room for stamp collectors and was amazed.
4. I wrote a thesis paper in high school about Homer Simpson.
5. I walked (2.5 miles) home from school on my first day of grade 7 because I didn’t have a dollar to take the bus.
6. I watched 9 seasons of Friends in 2 weeks. There were no commercials so it was only about 21 minutes per episode.
7. Until I got a Wii, my favourite game system was Intellevision II by Mattel. I used to play Burger Time and Lock and Chase for hours.
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Posted by Amir Lehrer on February 10, 2009
There are so many reality TV shows where you can watch other people do what you want to do. On the shows, people lose weight, get a job, start a business, become a top singer or model, find a spouse or countless other activities. You can waste precious hours each day watching other people live their dream or follow their heart. It doesn’t stop there, most people that watch reality TV, continue to watch the same shows season after season. You can literally sit on your couch for years watching other people live their lives while your life is passing before your eyes.
The Biggest Loser
My wife enjoys watching “the Biggest Loser” because it makes her feel good that people are doing something positive with their life. There are cases of people who have been on diabetes medication all their lives and now can all of a sudden get off the medication because they no longer need it. There are people who can hardly walk up the stairs to their houses and now can run up staircases at work. The show is inspirational and we should all take a lesson from it. The lesson I suggest taking is a little different from what most people would think at first. My favourite part of the show is when someone is kicked off and they show him or her 6 months later after having lost an additional 100 pounds. The most inspirational part is seeing what people can do on their own if they are determined, not what people can do while being pushed on public television.
The Lesson: Do It For Yourself
So take that lesson from the show. You are not on TV and you’re not competing for a prize. Everything you do is for yourself, your health and your happiness. So get off the couch and start doing what you want to do instead of watching others do it.
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Posted by Amir Lehrer on February 9, 2009
I’d like to take this opportunity to apologize to my readers or at least the ones that are left, for not updating this Get Lucky in a while. I have been having major issues with the backend and coding associated with my design and was therefore, forced to trash the original design and start from scratch with this new design. I will resume posting regularly this week.
On a more positive note, I have a new design which I happen to really like. What do you think? Please let me know in the comments.
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