Today it seems easy for people to look at someone who has accomplished something great and say they got lucky. People like to do this because it gives them an excuse to settle for where they are and not take the chance or put the effort toward their own goals and ambitions.
The people you see that got the promotion at work, closed the big deal, built the huge business, took the dream vacation, had the kid who got accepted to the Naval Academy, or married “the perfect person”, were all “lucky”.
Luck might have played a part in that happening, but not in the way that most people think.
Luck comes in four different ways.
Blind Luck is the type that most people think of and believe is the only kind.
This is winning the lottery (or sperm lottery), being born in America, or happening to inherit land with oil under it.
This happens but it’s extremely rare.
Don’t hold your breath to fall into this type of luck.
For most of us, we aren’t this lucky.
The second type of luck is Energetic Luck, and it is manufactured through motion, persistence, and hustle.
Think of the person you see everywhere.
They know everyone and everyone knows them.
They are at all the events and on all the platforms.
When they walk into a room everyone feels their presence and they make everyone
in the room feel better in some way.
The value that they bring through their positive energy and activity levels to others, is attractive.
This results in luck finding them!
If you are taking action, building strategic relationships, and showing up with the right attitude then good things happen.
Motion is the magic potion to creating Energetic Luck!
The third type of luck is Opportunistic Luck.
If you stay hyper-aware of your surroundings and the events that occur, you will
be able to spot opportunities that others miss.
Most people are going through life living in their own worlds inside their minds and being easily distracted by entertainment and bad habits.
As humans in today’s world, we operate in our subconscious mind too much.
We are on autopilot during many hours of the day because of the routines we have created.
This leaves us missing out on ways to capitalize from the events that occur.
Think about the Covid pandemic as an example. What opportunities could have been created from such a terrible situation?
What new problems did it create for you or others and how can you solve them?
If you prepare by developing high-income skills and keep your eyes wide open at all times then it’s only a matter of time until you “get lucky”.
Our society rewards people who solve problems and it just so happens that in today’s world people create as many problems as others solve. This means there is not a lack of opportunities to be a problem solver. Those that think this way will benefit from opportunistic luck.
Last, but not least, is Character Luck. This is luck created by your reputation, character or brand. This is the hardest kind of luck to generate but becomes the gift that keeps giving.
Think about Mark Cuban or Warrant Buffett. These two consistently get opportunities
to buy or invest in businesses because of their track record and reputation.
They have built massive brand equity for themselves, so people seek them out.
Luck finds them!
If you have specific knowledge and strong skills, then others will want to team up with you.
Others that might have gotten ahead purely by Blind Luck will reach out to those who have this type of luck to help them. For example, I am working on a real estate deal and the family that owns the land fell into Blind Luck. Their family has owned it for many years and for most of the time it was considered farmland, not that valuable and in the middle of nowhere.
Until a developer decided to buy some of it and build a massive sports park that now brings over 1 million people to this place every year.
The family struck oil, so to speak.
They then reached out to other real estate developers to help them develop and market all their other property surrounding this site.
All these people going to the sports park need hotels to stay in, food to eat, gas for their vehicles, and hopefully car washes too! 😊
This created generational wealth for everyone involved.
Luck found these developers they partnered up with by way of their reputation, brand, and character for being able to transform this farmland into a
thriving commercial trade area.
This is how you turn someone else’s Blind Luck into your Character Luck.
You can depend on the rabbit’s foot if you want, but it clearly didn’t work out for the rabbit.
Remember, success loves speed and luck can be manufactured by motion!
Talk Soon,
Bobby