Luck or Opportunity

 

Many years ago someone told me my husband was very lucky, that they were glad he had such a successful lifestyle. I was surprised to hear that, perhaps people did not know he use to wake up at 5:00am and sometimes it was 10:30pm and he was still working, that was not luck, it was hard work.

I believe "Lucky" people do something that too many things other people don't do; they prepare themselves for an opportunity that will help enhance their lives. They don't just sit and wait and hope; they actively pursue a goal and look for every opportunity to achieve it.

 “Being in the right place at the right time" if you don’t take the opportunity and work for it, you will not be lucky. Think twice when you ask yourselves, why do some people seem to get lucky breaks? We all know someone who "seems lucky" but what's their secret? Is it just a matter of sitting back and waiting for fortune to come knocking on your door or do you have to do something more to invite it in?

 Often people who see themselves as unfortunate tend to want to believe the success and fortune of others is just pure luck and nothing more. They themselves, they will tell you, simply have had no luck at all.

What I have told always to my children is “Teachers open the doors, but you must enter by yourself” and never underestimates small opportunities because they could be the beginning of great enterprises. The trouble with opportunity is that it always comes with hard work.