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Wishing I was Lucky

Written by: Paul Bridle

Article Overview: It has been said that luck occurs when opportunity meets persistence. There is also the famous quote: “Luck is a wonderful thing. The harder a person works, the more of it they seem to have” Are we really lucky?

Wishing I was Lucky

Didn’t Wet Wet Wet sing this? It seems that people are all too quick to assume that ‘luck’ is a mysterious force that flies around and chooses where to vest its positive charms and where to thrust its negative forces. Then again, there are people that seem to have been born with this mysterious force constantly on their shoulder practicing positive spells while others that never come across the positive aspects at all!!!!!

Give me a break, I can remember having this discussion with my Father-in-law many years ago. He believed that you “made your own luck”. It took me a while to understand what he was saying but I must say, it is a lot closer to the truth than believing that luck rests outside your control and is dependent on some external force either liking or disliking you.

Many business leaders say that they were lucky. But they don’t say that they sat around waiting for luck to come along and give them opportunities. It wasn’t an external force deciding they were suitable candidates for lucky opportunities. Successful people have recognized opportunities and risen to the challenge, taken action and been prepared to pay the consequences.

My wife can never believe that I always find money. I walk down the street and see money and pick it up, - but that is not luck. I open my mind to notice the money. I then always pick it up because I want to maintain the open mind and encourage it. I want my subconscious mind to believe that it is important to notice money. That is why I will pick up any money I see regardless of the amount.

A robber robs a bank and runs out to the car to find a flat tire. Is that bad luck? No, if a tire is not cared for it will go flat. If the car is driven over a nail or hits a curb, the tire will deflate. There is no luck involved. That is physics and will happen to any car tire. If the driver doesn’t care for the car, then what happens is not luck.

So what is it that people who seem “lucky” do? Well, they open their minds to opportunities and are constantly seeking them. They notice potential and then act on it. They seek the chances and respond to them in a proactive manner. Finally, they plan, thinking through how they will implement it and then act on it.

What about the negatives that happen? They simply notice them, learn from them and then move on. Problems happen but they don’t dwell on them.

The “unlucky” person sees the things that go wrong and don’t even notice the things going well. They are focused on what is ‘unlucky’ and never see the things that went well. They don’t notice that they went to work without having a puncture, or haven’t been ill all winter, or that they got paid on time. But they do notice that they bought one jar of jam that they dropped or one single button that came off their clothes!

Luck is not something that happens to you, it is something that occurs when you are tuned into opportunities. It has been said that luck occurs when opportunity meets persistence. There is also the famous quote: “Luck is a wonderful thing. The harder a person works, the more of it they seem to have”

Lucky I found that quote!!!!

Paul Bridle
Leadership Methodologist
March 2008

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