Comments on: What’s Luck Got To Do With It?

By: Chris Peterson

Chris Peterson — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:45:26 +0000

Hi Rich,
You have an interesting perspective, somehow similar to mine. But where I stand apart from yours is:
1. I believe that I am lucky everyday & find some positive interpretation for not so good events.

2. This is consistent attitude & it stands valid no matter what the situation is.

3. I move on.

We know that simple things like that better that complicated thinking patterns.

By: Buat Website

Buat Website — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 04:47:28 +0000

Action and preparation will be follow with luck i think. Great post.

By: David Sinick

David Sinick — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:21:35 +0000

Luck is when preparation meets opportunity. You need to create opportunity for yourself by exposing yourself to new things, and you need to be prepared for when opportunity arrives from your exposure. If you don’t take action – you won’t get anything.

David Sinick
Http://ryanlee.com

By: Brenon MacLaury

Brenon MacLaury — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 06:34:43 +0000

I think everyone has bits of good luck, and bad luck. If you don’t take things for granted I believe you’ll realize how lucky you are. If someone just thinks of luck as winning the lottery or finding an envelope on the ground that has $10K in it, they won’t ever consider themselves to have “good luck”. I have a great husband, a beautiful baby girl, a roof over our heads and my daughter always has a full belly, so I think I had pretty good luck to be where I am today. Sure, I don’t win contests and prizes, but that’s not all luck has to offer.

Thanks for the thought-provoking post!

Brenon MacLaury

By: Cassia Cardinot

Cassia Cardinot — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:01:33 +0000

Luck is usually defined by me as the tree pyramid’s wall.

You’ll only be lucky if you:

1) have the knowledge
2) have the forthsight
3) have the timing

If you miss or skip any of these points, luck will sour. That’s because if you have the knowledge, but not the timing, you’ll miss valuable oportunities.
If you have both timing and knowledge, but forthsight, you’ll only see the oportunity when others are already profiting on it, but you didn’t see how worthfull it would be in the near future.
On the other side, if you have the forthsight and the timing, but you don’t know what’s coming in your direction, you won’t be able to grab it.

By: Dave Furnevall

Dave Furnevall — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:52:04 +0000

Luck is what the other guy thinks you have when seeing the fruits of your labor. They put it down to luck so they don’t have to deal with the prospect that they could have all the ‘luck’ in the world themselves if they wanted it enough.

By: Joseph

Joseph — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:38:59 +0000

Thank you Rich,
I would like to share a story that happened in the days of Lao Tzu in China.
Lao Tzu loved that story, so do I.
There was an old and very poor man in a village, but even kings were jealous of him because he had a beautiful white horse. Kings offered fabulous prices for the horse, but the man would say,”this horse is not a horse to me, he is a person. And how can you sell a person, a friend?” The man was poor, but he never sold the horse.
One morning, he found that the horse was not in the stable. The whole village gathered and people said: “You, foolish old man! We knew that someday the horse would be stolen. It would have been better to sell it. What a misfortune!”
The old man said, “Don’t go so far as to say that. Simply say that the horse is not in the stable. This is a fact, everything else is a judgement. Whether it is a misfortune or a blessing, I don’t know, because this is just a fragment. Who knows what is going to follow it?
People laughed at the old man. After 15 days suddenly one night, the horse returned. He had not been stolen, he had escaped into the wild nature. The horse brought a dozen wild horses with him.

Again people gathered and they said, “Old man, you were right. This was not a misfortune, it has indeed proved to be pure luck.”
The old man said, “Again you are going too far. Just say that the horse is back, who knows whether it is luck or not? It is only a fragment. You read a single word in a sentence – how can you judge the whole book?”
This time the people could not say much, but inside they knew he was wrong. Twelve beautiful horses had come.

The old man had only one son, who started to train the wild horses. Just a week later he fell from a horse and his legs were broken. People gathered again and again they said: “Again you proved right it was a misfortune, your only son has lost the use of his legs, and in your old age he was your only support. Now you are poorer than ever.”
The old man said, “You are obesessed with judgment. Don’t go that far. Say only that my son has broken his legs. Nobody knows whether this is misfortune or luck? Life comes in fragments and more is never given to you.

It happened, a few weeks later, the country went to war, and all the young men of the town were forcibly taken to military. Only the old man’s son was left because he was crippled. The whole town was crying and weeping, because it was a losing fight and they knew most of the young people would never come back. They came to the old man and they said, “You were right, old man – this has proved to be pure luck. Maybe your son is crippled, but he is still with you. Our sons are gone forever.”
The old man said again, “Nobody knows! Only say, that your sons have been forced to enter the army and my son has not been forced. Only the Source knows whether it is luck or a misfortune.”

By: Nancy

Nancy — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:28:08 +0000

Hi Rick,
Good article. I love the 3 points you made:
1) Get out there
2) Go with your gut
3) Grab the silver lining

Law of Attraction coaches all say these things. You have to be in motion to have emotion. Those who are most successful all have good connection to intuition.

Finally, when intuition nudges, act quickly. The only thing you didn’t include is to have a clear, written goal.

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