Luck is a funny thing.
Did you run into bad luck this week? Good luck? What did you do with it? The answer to THAT question determines your success.
No one really knows what luck is, when or why it “finds” you (or whether it does). And does it really matter?
It’s fun to think about the superstitious stuff. Was it “meant to be?” Was it “our time?” “Everything happens for a reason.” And the superstitious view can actually be helpful, particularly when bad luck seems to find us more often. But I believe that luck is not a thing, it’s how we react to that thing. If we react as though what made bad luck was our fault, or someone else is out to get us, this is bad luck indeed. But what if that bad thing was actually good luck, disguised so you’d notice it?
We’ll never know about the “thing” we call lucky or unlucky because we have no power over it. But we do have power over ourselves, and how we respond. Every Luck Event is an opportunity to make good things happen. Every Luck Event is a choice. And Choice is Power.
Think this is froo froo stuff? One of the greatest business minds of our time, Jim Collins, recently wrote a book called “Great by Choice,” and he and his co-author actually studied (in exhaustive detail) the impact luck had on big companies. Know what they found? Right. The best companies found ways to take advantage of both “good luck” and “bad luck” – and made these Luck Events part of their success. (BTW: Collins coined the Luck Event term and I love it!)
