I am lucky

I am lucky.  A life partner who loves me dearly and unconditionally.  Great kids.  Great ‘job’. Great lifestyle.  And whilst from the outside this may appear lucky, I am here to tell you there is no such thing as luck.  Good or bad, there is none.  There is just opportunity and I truly believe that every opportunity you create for yourself. 

Now on the face of it, not every opportunity is good, meaning that if it is not good, then by definition, it is bad.  Wrong.  Every opportunity is good.  Every opportunity is created by you and it is what we do with the opportunity that makes the face value appear good or bad.

Hey, I have seriously blown opportunities in both my personal and business lives.  But my definition doesn’t mean a blown opportunity is a piece of bad luck.  It just means that, at that moment of time I didn’t make the most of that opportunity either through lack of preparedness or lack of identification of the opportunity.  And deep down, lack of identification is a result of lack of preparedness.

I know this is way too deep for this time of morning but the beautiful Bendigo has made me reflective (which is so often the case when I am away).  So if you are feeling unlucky, and feeling like the ‘luck fairy’ has forgotten about you, just remember that it is up to you to redefine the opportunity and to find the lack of preparation.  Then all you need to do is dust yourself off, take a deep breath and get on with bridging the preparation gap.  Hey is that a fifty under the couch in my hotel room?  Booyar.