My dog Scooter has gone blind.
At first it was heartbreaking.
Watching him bump into things, and then seeing him withdraw, sit still for long periods of time…
It made me wonder what he must be thinking.
If it was even worth still being around, when he had once been so fiercely independent.
He’s always been a cute little guy, but also kind of grouchy and self-centered.
He’s about 99 in people years, but that hasn’t slowed him down too much.
Until he went 100% blind over the last few months.
Then our vet said something that really stuck with me: “You know, Ray, Scooter’s not feeling sorry for himslef. Dogs don’t do self-pity.”
Guess what?
The minute we realized that, Scooter’s attitude improved 100%!
Was he listening?
No.
But Lynn (my wife) and I started treating him as if we didn’t pity him — we just started loving him more.
And because of his “helpless” state, he was more open to receiving our help.
We started working with Scooter, teaching him new commands, helping him learn his way around again, and taking him for walks.
He still has his moments, but he’s adjusting.
Most of the time you’d never know he was blind.
And now he seems the happiest I’ve ever seen him. He’s not grouchy.
He’s not self-centered.
He’s more affectionate, more loving, and more playful than ever.
Why is that?
I think it’s because his blindness opened him up to accepting the love and the help of those who care for him, instead of trying to do everything himself.
And this is why I’m telling you about my blind dog…
No, I’m not physically blind. And I am of course more grateful than ever for the gift of sight. When I say “I too am a blind dog”, I’m speaking metaphorically.
You see, I’m trying to be more like Scooter – to take that same approach to my life and my business as I contemplate a new year.
The “same approach” meaning: learning, like Scooter has, to be open to the wisdom, the love, and the knowledge of those around me.
Those wonderful, intelligent, sage beings who are part of my life.
Like you, for instance.
(In the latter part of this post, I’m going to ask you to take a few moments and share your opinion and wisdom with me.)
But what I hope you’ll take from this story about my bling dog is this: don’t wait for some tragedy to make you open to others.
Go ahead and open yourself up to the people in your life who can help you. The people who WANT to help you.
Let them in.
Live with the same joy that Scooter does — by moving from “fierce independence” to “joyful INTER-dependence”.
Now here’s the part where I ask for your thoughts. If you want the full story you can keep reading. Or you can skip the rest of the post and just…
Give Your Opinion. <--- Click That To Take The Survey
I recently conducted a survey of my readers about what you need most to learn about, and how you would prefer to learn it.
I gave away a free “Q&A” teleseminar for those who chose to participate.
And I promised I would share the results of the survey with you…
Here’s what we discovered together:
1. What do you most want to learn about?
- 50% of you said you want to learn “how to write your own copy”. This was by far the biggest reauest.
- The next biggest response was 39.4% who want to learn how to make money from home online.
Add them together: 89.4% of subscribers to this newsletter want to learn how to make money from home, online, by writing their own copy.
2. How to you like to receive information?
- 68.2% prefer email.
- 45.5% prefer video.
- 26.5% prefer teleseminar.
3. As far as getting email from me…
- 62.9% prefer a weekly newsletter (the other responses were all less than 1/3 of this one!).
I’ll start publishing a new weekly newsletter the first week in January. This will be 100% content, dirven by your feedback and requests, with no selling anything in the newsletter.
4. 77.3% of you have invested in either a live seminar or telesemsinar.
5. 90.4 % of you would be interested in online coaching about how to make money with your website by writing your own copy!
You’re going to get what you want.
I’m creating an online course that will teach you how to make money from home, online, by writing your own copy.
So yes, this us part of a sneaky “launch”.
Hmmm.
I guess now the “cat’s out of the bag”.
Oh well.
It’s not so sneaky after all. I hope you’re okay with that…
So… can I enlist your help one more time?
So that I am absolutely sure that I am teaching what you truly need and want to learn, will you answer just a few quick questions for me?
I need you opinion on one more survey — about the SPECIFICS of what will be in the course.
Just click here to take the survey.
There’s no obligation on your part.
It’s just you giving your opinions.
And you get to create the details of the course with me.
