The Harder you Work, the Luckier you Get.
Some people think you have to be lucky to be successful. They think that success happens by accident, and that it’s only because someone was in the right place at the right time, that they achieved success. They tell themselves that “I could be successful too, if I had his luck”. These people don’t understand that luck is a reward for hard work you’ve put in to reach your goals.
The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work, and if you want to be successful, there is some work that must be done. Of course, things do happen by chance every once in awhile, but you will not build long term success by waiting for freak instances of “luck” to come your way.
The fact is that luck is created by increasing the frequency of those activities that are most likely to lead to success. For example, if you are in sales, it is almost axiomatic that the sales person who calls on 10 people will almost always be more likely to “get lucky” and find a customer, than one who calls one or two people. Doesn’t it make sense that if you called 10 new customers a day, that you would eventually get lucky and land a huge account that others would envy you for? Of course it does, and that happens everyday. But people that don’t understand the fact that you “make your breaks”, attribute this phenomenon to pure chance, as opposed to hard work. Of course, these are the same people who were sitting on the couch in their living room watching re-runs of of M.A.S.H., while you were out calling on potential clients, because they just didn’t see the connection between activity and success.
So, if you want to get lucky, get to work! Knowing that you engaging in the proper behaviors and activities that will eventually land you that successful opportunity will not only put you closer to achieving it, but it will make you feel better mentally, since you are taking control of your destiny instead of just allowing it to happen by chance.
And, the next time someone tells you that you were lucky to get an opportunity, thank them for reminding you to get back to work making your breaks!
