Maybe we don’t make luck but instead catch it like a fisherman at sea.
- Standing on the deck of the boat, the fisherman can’t control the fish that swim into the net, but he most certainly is responsible for finding a location with good odds.
Just be consistent in your attempts for mastering the craft and improving the skills.
- You can’t control external factors like the weather, the storms, the tide, and the location of the fish on that particular day, but you can control you.
- and that is your power
Understand the danger with looking at luck as something that is entirely self-made and thinking that if you do x you will be rewarded.
- You may thing that “If I put in the work there’s going to be an outcome.”
- It’s tricky thinking something is owed to you in any capacity.
- It breeds resentment because for whatever reason when it’s not provided, life suddenly seems unfair.
- It creates a scarcity mindset
To truly progress is to endure that balancing act of what we can control in one hand and what we can’t in the other.
- “You can’t control the wind but you were given the power to adjust your sails accordingly.”
Re-source: Receptive
able or inclined to receive : fit to receive and transmit stimuli
For those who hang in there and adapt long enough, it seems as though luck tends to find them at some point.
- This occurrence seems to unveil itself in a million different ways, example after example, everywhere you look
Effort never guarantees success, but the lack of it guarantees failure.
- You can’t ensure that those fishing nets will be full after your expedition, but keeping the ship in the harbor ensures those nets will be empty.
Plant a seed and hope that years later others could eat the fruit.
- There will be times in our lives when we fall short.
- When the pursuit feels in vain and when the odds are small, you have the option to look at the road in front of you and see all that you don’t have, how ill-equipped, ill-prepared, and not ready for what’s to come
- But you also have the option to start moving, creating, believing, preparing your net, and building yourself up
- Because when luck presents itself you’ll be as ready as you can possibly be.
- If you swing and miss, do not personalize the result, but adjust the pieces and be ready for the next time.
We don’t create luck but we do have the power and the ability to create ourselves.
- If that’s a pursuit you’re willing to commit and immerse yourself, you will have in essence established a relationship with chance.
- You will not making luck but receiving it, because you anticipated its arrival long before it materialized, and worked to make yourself its most appealing suitor
craving and resource from Your World Within – “The Truth About Luck”