How many times have your heard someone saying I make my own luck and thought to yourself that’s a big bull? How many times did you wish for it to be true? And how often did you try to make your own luck, without even knowing what that means?
Well, let me get this out of your way really fast, so we can concentrate on what’s really important afterwards: There is no luck. There is no chance. There’s no such thing as coincidence. If you believe in luck you should stop reading right here.
Still with me? Good. Now, if there’s no such thing as luck, is there something else that could explain all the good (and bad) things that happen in your life without you actually doing in that direction? Certainly, it’s called motivation. More accurately, the correct motivation.
How does that work though? Well, read on. These are all based on actual events.
Case #1: A businessman, acquaintance of mine, did pretty well during 2009, a heavy crisis year. He inflated his prices, sold less of the same product he did in 2008 and thus made a decent profit. He saw that everything went well and decided to slightly (2%) increase his prices by the start of 2010 while his costs remained the same as in ’08, stating that we already dodged the crisis and now people should afford his product. He can now barely make a living. Bad luck? No, wrong motivation.
Case #2: A dear friend of mine was having a tough time making little if any money to support his decent lifestyle: mostly rent, food, some little extra expenses. Last month his only option was to move back home, get stuck in a more or less dead-end job, totally killing his career expectations and most likely his social life would’ve taken a bad hit apart from leaving a whole lot of friends behind. In less than a month he got the opportunity to make more money than he would’ve been able to come up with in several months. As a bonus he also got what many could call a dream job. Luck? No, correct motivation.
And I have plenty more from where those came from. The conclusion is quite simple: With the correct motivation anything is possible. A whole world of opportunities can arise if you leave behind all the preconceptions. What you do with these opportunities is entirely up to you. Because there is no such thing as luck.
what about lottery games? i know only a few manage to get some money from this kind of games, but what about the people that manage to guess the *magic* six numbers in Romania?
It’s not about luck in this case. It’s about the extraordinary desire to win, be it expressed or not.
If you followed the stories of those who won you’ll notice that these are people that actually need to money for one reason or another.
What they do with that money is up to them though. Some spend it and end up broke, some lose it all. It’s a chain of opportunities and events that in the end might not be that rewarding.
because we are men and we usually talk less than women, we can call this “chain of opportunities and events” luck. one word in exchange of 5 words
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A. Faith,
Luck can be defined as:
- an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another.
- Luck (also called fortuity) is a chance happening, or that which happens beyond a person’s control
Now, what I’m stating is that we do have control and it’s quite predictable. Totally different thing
luck, chance, opportunity. the same thing, baby.
It’s all about the opportunity you, above all, build around yourself; being in one place or another, learning or not learning, having or not flair. The want must be your master, rather than luck.
Siginutz,
Creating an opportunity is completely different than having “luck”
Alex,
I completely agree. Wanting/desiring is much more important than just hoping.