You Create Your Own Luck
You can't plan for luck. But you can plan to intelligently design your environment and give your damn best every day. It's all you can do. The rest is up to luck, fate, the universe, whatever you believe in.
I read the following quote this week and damn, it really hit home:
“Things worthwhile generally don’t just happen. Luck is a fact, but should not be a factor. Good luck is what is left over after intelligence and effort have combined at their best. Negligence or indifference are usually reviewed from an unlucky seat. The law of cause and effect and causality both work the same with inexorable exactitudes. Luck is the residue of design.” ~ Branch Rickey
Luck is the residue of design.
What a great line. And it's so true.
- How do you design your day?
- How do you design your life?
- How do you design your business?
At GrowthBay Kevin and I try to take out a considerable amount of our time to think deeply about what we want to do, why we want to do it and how we want to it. It doesn't "feel" productive in the moment, but it just sets everything around us up for success in the longterm. It is probably the highest leverage activity we will do all week.
Luck is a fact, but should not be a factor.
You can't plan for luck. But you can plan to intelligently design your environment and give your damn best every day. It's all you can do. The rest is up to luck, fate, the universe, whatever you believe in.
How Seneca said so prolifically:
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity
Don't wish for it, work for it. You create your own luck.
