Taking the chances that really make a difference. How to spot and embrace the possibilities of opportunity. Make your world bigger and more interesting. Make your life more fulfilling and challenging.

‘At the end of my life I want to still be standing up rather than on my knees.  To say that I stood up to the world and had a go rather than letting all the opportunities I had slip through my hands’.

In this poignant opening to this powerful book on spotting and taking opportunities Douglas Miller starts a journey that captures a world of potential rather than a world whose riches (metaphorical) we often chose to hide away from. His advice on how to take opportunities stretches from building stronger personal relationships to setting up a business to hobbies and even how to meet Mr or Mrs Right.  Opportunities really can come from anywhere.  And we get the chance to meet many people young and old, male and female who have seized opportunities and enriched their own lives.  From Europe’s youngest female commercial airline pilot to a man who fled Kosovo during the Serbian war in 1999 and came back to become Kosovo’s biggest TV star to a retiree who became a historian and published her own books to Specsavers and Woodworm cricket bats the book has many inspiring case studies that we can learn from.

The book explores the psychology and practicalities involved in spotting and seizing opportunities – breaking the thin line which says ‘I wish I had done that’ and taking us into more fertile territory where we make the most of what is a very short life.