Comments on: 5 secrets to success

By: The Secret DVD

The Secret DVD — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 10:50:06 +0000

Telling the truth is very important! Communicating at all is very important! All these points are fantastic, and hold the honey of life. I am curious though as to you oppinions of the message brought forth in “The Secret” DVD, have any of you seen it? If so what did you think?

Ken

By: karanbir

karanbir — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 04:18:16 +0000

Hi Excellency,

This is the first time I’ve learnt the truth and I have started beleivn that there are winners in life.

You tell the truth!!!

Love to know more about being successful.

Regards,
Karanbir

By: Bev Trayner

Bev Trayner — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 06:37:12 +0000

thank you danah. it’s a lovely post that will carry me through my next round of turmoil.

By: Elias Kai

Elias Kai — Sun, 06 May 2007 12:55:11 +0000

I think meeting new people is the fruit.

By: xian

xian — Fri, 04 May 2007 19:03:39 +0000

hey, your “It looks good on Flickr because no matter how crap the day’s been, i know that i’m supposed to put on a smiley face when i write on this blog, send a Twitter, or get on stage” really hit the target for me and reminded me of a point I think I left out of my response to your Twitter post questions: I have tweeted about feeling down or low, but I think twice about it because I do have a sense of performance or of trying to put a happy face on things, especially in the permanent record. Unfortunately that distorts things.

For example, when I went from writing full time back to a day job in 2005, one of my blog readers told me she was sad because my writer’s life sounded so great, going to cafes, having interesting lunches with people in sunny Oakland, interviewing fascinating subjects for my book, living the free, flexible life of a freelance writer. But I was also going broke! and it’s too easy to share a romantic picture of the best moments of your life and leave a lot of the reality on the cutting room floor.

By: Nancy White

Nancy White — Wed, 02 May 2007 10:12:41 +0000

Just a heartfelt thank you for a beautiful post. I heard your voice in it. I saw your eyes. What a gift.

By: Bayrou Prsident

Bayrou Prsident — Wed, 02 May 2007 03:17:57 +0000

Next time, I’ ll win.

By: Simon Breslav

Simon Breslav — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 06:23:03 +0000

>”I’m insane. It’s not all fun and games. Success != happiness.
It’s true, but mediocrity != happiness ether. Having a “normal”, “simple” life does not mean happiness. The grass is always greener on the other side, if you were doing 9-5, having a “simple” life, perhaps you would be bored with life, you would feel like your life is unrealized, like you can do so much more, and you would be totally/partially miserable. It’s hard for me to be totally objective though, I’m certainly not famous or in public eye, or successful… But my guess is that the solution is not the extreme, its not “give up, quit it all and go have a normal life,” but rather work your hardest and your best at what your believe in, put everything into it, but not to forget to slow down from time to time and take it easy, to notice little things, people, nature, the universe and so on.

When it comes to success, or working hard I always try to remember this quote:
“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”
–Theodore Roosevelt

By: Stephanie Willson

Stephanie Willson — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 21:07:38 +0000

I found your post intriguing. It really touched a cord with me when you reflected upon the success of your career and the choices it left you with were only your successes instead of having a 9-5 job, significant other, and a baby. Having been a SAHM (stay-at-home mom) now struggling to provide for my family as a single parent it prompted the following thought: Why is it that women can’t have it all? I don’t feel that it is equally as satisfying to be a stay-at-home mom dependant on her husband that doesn’t give her the respect she deserves becoming more unemployable and a low wage earner with each passing year unable to break free. Nor do I think the working mother who feels guilty for never being home enough is fully a satisfying choice either. This is probably the million dollar question of women’s history. Is it therefor easier to be a man?

By: philip tadros

philip tadros — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:38:43 +0000

your a badass, i love what you wrote

“If you want to change the world, if you want to be in the public eye, you have to be prepared for the costs that it will have on your personal life and sanity. I have to admit that every 6 months, i want to quit it all and go have a normal life with a 9-5 job and a significant other and a social life and a baby. But there’s something in me that won’t let me do that… Maybe i’m running from my self, but hopefully it’s just that i would prefer to live my life trying to make grandiose change than live a simple life. Of course, i strongly believe that the latter would make more “happy” but, somehow, happiness is not enough for me. I’m far too invested in succeeding to make the world right to find serenity. For better or worse.”