Opportunity Wears A Fake Nose & Mustache
Len Hollon
You can get everything in life you want if you just help enough other people get what they want. Zig Ziglar
I read a great book back about 1980. Don’t remember the title, but it was about luck. Why are people lucky? How does luck happen? Can a cause be pinpointed? What makes lucky people different from unlucky people?
Rabbit’s Foot, Anyone?
The author talked to a lot of people, those who considered themselves lucky and those who didn’t. He’d find out what had happened in their lives, and he chroni- cled their incidents of luck. And then he looked at differences & similarities of the people he’d interviewed, and he came to a conclusion.
His conclusion was a revelation to me. Luck is NOT random.
It’s the result of what he called the spider web effect.
People who build webs tend to be lucky. People who don’t build webs tend not to be lucky. In other words … the more contacts you make in life … the more relationships you build … the fewer bridges you burn … the greater the universe of people who have strong positive feeling for you … the more people you reach out to help … the more likely you are to be lucky. This was fascinating.
The biggest conclusion for me was YOU are in control of your own luck!
(From Ch 3 of "Success in 10 Steps" by Michael Dlouhy)
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