Luck

"Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it
and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else:
Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't."
Lucille Ball

Do you feel like a lucky person? Or perhaps an unlucky person? What is luck anyway? We've been brought up with superstitions like "if a black cat crosses your path, you'll have bad luck". Can that really be true? If you win the lottery, did that happen because you were lucky? Or was it just chance?

Luck is about being aware, and making associations. Nothing happens in our lives by chance. The person with good luck is simply the person with good success habits. First of all, you need to have a goal and work hard towards it. You won't get anywhere unless you take action. If you always focus on your goal, then you will acquire a good idea of the actions you need to take in order to get to it.

Of course, a lot of taking the right actions involves being aware of what is going on around you, and especially the opportunities that present themselves. If you are aware, you will know what opportunities to choose, because you will know what is most important to you. If you are out there taking action, you will gain a better understanding of what is necessary in order for you to reach your goal. You will learn, from making mistakes, what opportunities are most likely to work out. And you will be more likely to be around when those opportunitys do show up.

Don't rely on luck. Luck is just taking action and thus becoming better prepared for when a great opportunity presents itself. It is being aware of those great opportunitys when they show up, and working to take advantage of them. Luck is what happens when you do the things necessary for success.

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