Planned Happenstance is a viewpoint in career development that stems from creating opportunities for yourself out of aspirations that you would like to pursue in your career. Written by: Mary D.After reading the title, you are probably wondering what Planned Happenstance is and how it can help you in your career. With the well-written materials, appropriate keywords, and with the utilization of search engine optimization (SEO) to increase your post’s or blog’s searchability, the possibility of chance encounters is higher.īy focusing on your target audience’s interests, giving them some inspirational posts, problem-solving blogs, and helpful tips, there is a greater chance of encountering like-minded people.

The goal is to meet people and create synergistic relationships that may lead to the fulfillment of your vision. In facilitating serendipity through social media, the posts, blogs, or content must be goal-directed. Facilitating or inducing Serendipity using Social Media Through social media management, the rate of meeting the right people at the right time and place occurred. I am not a great blogger, but 100% of my business was forged through social media.īy networking, joining online groups, sharing my thoughts and ideas, my serendipitous moments had started to unfold. I started in a chatroom, then used all serendipity engines like Linkedin, blogging, websites, chatrooms. My serendipity, as it happened in the 21st century was a far cry from the people who were before me. Use serendipity engines (Twitter, blogging, Facebook, Linkedin) I can certainly learn that serendipity happens as it did the way I started and developed my business. And when serendipity occurs, there is some unexplainable and uncontrollable flow of events. Serendipity has occurred to me in many circumstances and I have developed a particular kind of faith in it. They all emanated from some linkages of random, circumstantial connections that led to the formation of an event. If I look at how companies are linked up in a cycle of sellers, employees, customers-they all have this one thing in common: These are valuable ideas to anyone in business. Serendipity is a significant factor in both the creative process and the business process Serendipity is a combination of things: actively setting up opportunities, a willingness to go with the flow of events, the ability to see the thing that arises by chance, and finally, being ready to seize the opportunity-prepared both in the sense of being open to the possibility and ready to take advantage of it. Serendipitous experiences are vital both in the creative and business realms. This was the content of the trial plug for my online English teaching which started the English with Mary Moore, LLC.

What I had in common with these people was the wish to do something, and the perseverance to pursue the lightbulb-idea to discover some opportunities. Serendipity had a role to play in all the accomplishments of those businesses, inventions, and endeavors. To mention a few, Archimedes, Newton, Marie Curie, Super Glue, and Post-it Note to the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Ruins of Pompei, (Viva Varun: In Koh Samui!) and many other discoveries. I see parallelism of my experience with other artists, inventors, and business people. Seeing her one-liner – “Hundred bucks for a twenty-minute show” – move in an upward trend in the Yahoo chatroom gave me a smile of hope.Īs the stripteaser’s advert started trending in the chatroom, I wrote and published the following advert line for my online English teaching lessons “Study English with Mary Moore”.įrom that trial-advert, my first student from Alexandria, Egypt had enrolled, and the rest was history. But a serendipitous moment in a Yahoo business chatroom brought me to my 21st century “EUREKA”!īelieve it or not, but an online stripper had given me the idea that any skill/idea/talent can be sold as a product. I may not be a Buddhist, but serendipity or Divine Intervention has a great influence on my success.Īt 25 and penniless, having the wish to start my business without any cash was next to impossible. The princes, he told his correspondent, were “always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things that they were not in quest of”. In a letter, he wrote to a friend explaining an unexpected discovery he had made by reference to a Persian fairy tale, The Three Princes of Serendipity. Serendipity – others call it luck or Divine Intervention – means a “fortunate happenstance” or “pleasant surprise”.

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