Life Desk :
I often ask the participants of my workshops, what are the major resources they think they need to be successful or reach the goals they have set for themselves. It is not uncommon to see a four-letter word called ‘luck’ featuring in most of the list of resources prepared by them. In fact it is present in every list with different names like-‘opportunity’, ‘chance’ or ‘destiny’ – if not mentioned as luck. For me all these names mean the same thing because they place a factor outside ‘you’ which defines and controls your ability to succeed rather than placing the power to succeed inside you. Once the list is ready I ask the participants a few questions:
Can you produce luck in your life anytime you want it? All of them answer ‘no’. When you stop seeing luck as a necessary element of success, you stop relying upon it and start depending upon much more reliable sources or causes of success.
Do you view ‘luck’ as ‘master’ or ‘servant’? If they are viewing it as their master, they will stay stuck at a particular point and depend upon the benevolence of so called ‘master’ to make them successful. The master may oblige or may not oblige them. It is only when they view it as their servant they are empowered, because we have much more control over someone who is obliged to serve us. If luck is your servant it will have no option but to listen to the demands that you put forth to be executed.
When did you start believing in the concept of ‘LUCK’? Is it because you tried something in life and did not get it or is it because someone around you got something that you believe they did not deserve? 95% of the times it is the latter. Luck is there for everyone to leverage, and if it is not showing up in your life, you should think where you are messing up. What are the ten things you can do immediately to get lucky in life?
Luck is nothing but ‘labor under correct knowledge’. If you use the knowledge and the power of the above three questions you get a lot of luck in your life. And even if you do not get it, you will not need it to succeed.
I often ask the participants of my workshops, what are the major resources they think they need to be successful or reach the goals they have set for themselves. It is not uncommon to see a four-letter word called ‘luck’ featuring in most of the list of resources prepared by them. In fact it is present in every list with different names like-‘opportunity’, ‘chance’ or ‘destiny’ – if not mentioned as luck. For me all these names mean the same thing because they place a factor outside ‘you’ which defines and controls your ability to succeed rather than placing the power to succeed inside you. Once the list is ready I ask the participants a few questions:
Can you produce luck in your life anytime you want it? All of them answer ‘no’. When you stop seeing luck as a necessary element of success, you stop relying upon it and start depending upon much more reliable sources or causes of success.
Do you view ‘luck’ as ‘master’ or ‘servant’? If they are viewing it as their master, they will stay stuck at a particular point and depend upon the benevolence of so called ‘master’ to make them successful. The master may oblige or may not oblige them. It is only when they view it as their servant they are empowered, because we have much more control over someone who is obliged to serve us. If luck is your servant it will have no option but to listen to the demands that you put forth to be executed.
When did you start believing in the concept of ‘LUCK’? Is it because you tried something in life and did not get it or is it because someone around you got something that you believe they did not deserve? 95% of the times it is the latter. Luck is there for everyone to leverage, and if it is not showing up in your life, you should think where you are messing up. What are the ten things you can do immediately to get lucky in life?
Luck is nothing but ‘labor under correct knowledge’. If you use the knowledge and the power of the above three questions you get a lot of luck in your life. And even if you do not get it, you will not need it to succeed.
Courtesy – Indian Express
