What’s Luck Got To Do With It
"The only good luck many great men ever had was being
born with the ability
and determination to overcome bad luck."
- Channing Pollock
Actor/Magician
When it
comes to success, I am amazed at how many people believe that it is some
mystical power that falls on only the chosen few. Think about it, how many times have you heard
it said about someone who has achieved great success – or have said it yourself
– that they were just lucky? It is the
idea that you can be in the right place at the right time and all the planets alien
and you become a winner. It would be
nice, however, it never, ever happens.
As an Irish American who takes
great pride in my Irish heritage I find it both humorous and sad to hear people
talk of the “Luck of the Irish”. Here is
a people who have been oppressed by invading, hostile countries for most of
their history. They have suffered famine,
had their culture, religion, and language outlawed and people see this as
lucky? The fact that the Irish culture
and people have survived and today flourish, is that they are a determined and
hopeful people who never gave up on themselves.
That is not luck. That is
successful living.
Success-minded people know that
there is only one way to experience luck and that is to make it
themselves. Luck comes through hard
work, a clear vision and determination to never quit till you achieve success. Author and success expert, Brian Tracy put it
this way: “I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck,
take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.”
Here is the secret (although
there are no real secrets to those who seek truth) that many success-minded
people know about being in the right place at the right time.
The Right Place
If I were to tell you exactly
where the right place was to achieve success would you go there? I believe many people would. It would not matter how far it was or how
long it took. For the chance of being in
that lucky place we would do whatever it took.
Well, here is that place: It is right where you are at this minute. That’s right.
You need not go anywhere to find it because you are already there. Success starts where you are if you are
willing to take the action needed to make it happen. Oh yes, it takes hard work and lots of
concentrated effort, however, it only takes a bit of action right now to get
started.
The Right Time
The right time is – yes, you
guessed it – Right Now! You heard the
old saying, “There is no time like the present”, well, the fact is there is no
time but the present. You can do nothing
about yesterday. So no matter how badly
or how many times you failed in the past, let them go. It is over and done with and you are no
longer there. It also doesn’t matter
what you plan to do tomorrow. I believe
that we should have a plan and know where we are going, however, we can do
nothing about it till the future becomes the present. The only thing you can do is to take the
needed action right now. Nothing happens
without action, so let’s get started and you will see just how lucky you really
are.
To discover how you can achieve the dream you have believed was
impossible for too long, read On The
Journey To Achievement by John Patrick Hickey. You can get a signed copy for yourself and
get one for a friend, by going to http://www.johnpatrickhickey.com/it-is-good-to-set-goals-better-to-achieve-then/.
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