Make your luck
The harder i work, the luckier i get !
Actually while an element of luck does play a part in all of our lives, i think the element that continually gets a bad press is pure plain and not so sexy hard work.
I love quotes about success, they are so apt - “success is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration” for example. You can’t argue with it, its just true and said far more succinctly than i could ever hope to.
So, why the nations fascination with the quick fix, the lottery win, the celebrity show? Is working hard and getting on with it, so unsexy? Behind any seemingly glamorous job is a large quantity of deeply dull stuff to do. Even rock stars get fed up with the touring, lots of sitting on a bus for 2 hours of show - based on hours its not so appealing.
I think the answer is not to aspire to the lucky shot thats going to change it all for you, the winning ticket, or the talent spotter (unless you really do have talent of course) I think you build your own luck and you build your own life….
The problem with running after a dream is that its illlusory, and until you get it you won’t know whether it will make you happy - chances are it won’t - if you win money it doesn’t necessarily make you happy, you just arrive at your problems with more style, and in better clothes…
Success is about giving not getting, giving a great service, creating a great customer list, getting noticed for your fabulous window displays, getting talked about for all the right reasons, and it takes work.
if you want to be talked about for your fabulous window displays for example, then you’ve got to educate yourself on window displays - so you know whats a good one, whats a bad one and how to create one, using depth, colour, repetition, style, season, fashion and a myriad other eventualities….
In other words you have to work at it - you have to work at anything you want to be good at. No short cuts, no quick fixes, no knight on a white horse coming to save you or me.
Jim Rohn, famously said “Don’t wish it was easier - Wish you were better ! ”
Work out what you need to do, be, learn or have in order to be better and work on doing, being, learning or having that - and you’ll get better.
Simple - no quick fixes though !
