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Opportune Times!

Back once again for the Drop in the Ocean get together! With everyone producing amazing posts making for a great show on Monday, although we mostly all agree on the general idea of our topic.

It is always amazing to read everyones perspective on the topic with a unique view relevant to their lives. As always, each post has a valued take away on the topic of the week, Opportunity.

Wish to know more about Drop in the Ocean? You will find all the required information at the bottom of this post. Let's take this opportunity to dive right into our ocean!

Penguin Diving by Ian Parker _{photo by ian parker on unsplash}

The votes have been rolling in from the attendees of the show and we have the posts ready to share with you all.

The top two voted writers will 'level up'. When a member has leveled up, they will receive a daily upvote from the BuddyUP account at 50%. The member keeps their level for 2 weeks, unless they level up again on DITO within those 2 weeks. Every time you level up, you will receive an additional 10% on your daily vote, maxing out at level 5.

The writer with the most votes will be resteemed straight after this post. This is so we can all look back at the BuddyUP blog and see the winning posts from each week.

And the winners are...

All attendees have voted on their favorite Drop in the Ocean post in the #drop-in-the-ocean-voting channel for the week, which seemed to be a tough one as we had almost all the posts with equal votes.

Drop by our BuddyUp server and attend our weekly show which will give you access to the channel permanently then you too can vote for your favourites.

Two posts did come out ontop, and the winners for this week are...

@kchitrah

First off, we have @kchitrah with insight from her own life, reminding us of the fact that although opportunity may have stopped knocking, it doesn't mean that it has gone away.

Like me most of us don't seem to be answering the door because we feel we're not ready, need more resources, or perhaps have had a bad experience and don't want to get hurt again.

She eloquently explains the reasons we might not want to open the door to opportunity, using thoughtful insights from her own life experiences.

closed green door - @kcitrah Blog Post

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@kchitrah not only provides insight, she also shows us a few steps that will help us answer the call to opportunity after the fact.

Even after having the courage to open the door, there is then the question of following through.

Take the opportunity to learn from all the wisdom provided in her post here.

Further more, she also makes it her mission to implement what she shares with us. What will your mission be this month?

@andysantics48

Circumstances have been tough for @andysantics48 as of late. She shares with us the unfortunate realization that due to a cattle disease in New Zealand, she will be losing her only source of income.

Sharing in her post an opportunity she has been working on herself to gain another source of income for the past few months.

I chose to do this with the idea of starting a small business in my slow season after the calves are all reared and off eating grass.

Door Knocker

Handmaking these products might help her to gain a very needed source of income, combined with a generous gift in this time of uncertainty, another opportunity presents itself.

When he saw that I was having trouble he offered me a new opportunity...

A great post that shows us tangibly how opportunity can be ever present and unexpected, read all about @andysantics48 opportunities and hopeful future here.

Current DITO standings

NAME	LEVEL	TIME
@monchhichi23	2 (60%)	2 weeks
@kchitrah	1 (50%)	2 weeks
@andysantics48	1 (50%)	2 weeks
@katrina-ariel	1 (50%)	1 week

Our runners up for this week

Needless to say each post from this weeks show deserves your full attention, everyone that shared a post has clearly made the best of the opportunity.

Providing us all with great pearls of wisdom, creative approaches and life lessons shared.

We all throughly enjoyed each one, and you should take this as a recommendation to read all the post linked below.

@pretty.dorky - Knock Knock

@dreemsteem - A fool and her Beans

@sams-world - The story of Eddy the snail

@monchhichi23 - Love Spreading Steemians

@bluefinstudios - Opportunity - On So Many Levels

How do you get involved?

Have you been reading through and wondering how you can get involved with our community/show? Below I've listed the steps to take, so you can jump into the action and share your perspective and views, with all of us here at BuddyUP.

Head over to our BuddyUP server. You can do this by following the SafeLink post here.
Think about the topic for next week, which is...

HUMILITY

Write a post about that topic and come by to the Drop in the Ocean show on Monday (20:00 UTC) to present it and join the conversation.

If you are new and you don't have a membership to BuddyUP, you will receive free access if you present in Drop in the Ocean.

The final and the most important piece of information is... do not publish your post until SUNDAY. This is so we can give you all the best amount of exposure possible on your posts and also so you get paid close to show time; so you can come back with an even bigger smile on your face!

smiling girl by Kyle Loftus

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You can come and speak to any of us in #the-pond (general chat channel in our server) or if you have any further questions, you can direct message myself, @dreemsteem, or @penderis, and we will get in touch with you.