Choose to be lucky...

Ladies and gents how often are we in our daily lives consciously or unconsciously preparing for that break? Meeting that right person. Attending that right event. Going to that right place. But how do you know if it's right or not? Well, you don't.

Whether you want to accept this fact or not...(as the old saying goes) there's nothing guaranteed in life. You can pour your heart into a project so that it can see the light of day. You can give blood sweat and tears in order to bring a concept to fruition. By sheer mental force and a diabolical knack for influencing people, you are able to make ideas happen. It doesn't mean, though, that things will happen the way you want them to. Regardless, whatever it is that you do, your desire (I would imagine) is to make an impact, affect change or simply get recognized for your efforts. You want to succeed (in whatever way that may mean).

Now many say its about persistence. Some suggest it's about being smart. Others chalk it up to dumb luck - being at the right place at the right time.

Well from where I sit (and in my own experience...time and time and time again) I'd personally recommend investing heavy with number three (and stock options on the first might not be too bad either). But instead of looking at it as 'dumb luck', see being lucky as an attitude and a strategic way of 'being.' 

From a blog post I did in 2009 there are 4 basic principles for being 'lucky' and generating good fortune:

• Being skilled at creating and noticing chance opportunities.
• Make lucky decisions by listening to your intuition.
• Create self-fulfilling prophesies via positive expectations.
• Adopt a resilient attitude that transforms bad luck into good.

Now in today's world where we are bombarded with social networks this and digital media that, what's the relevance? In a market where change is everywhere and what's coming next, we  can't predict, we have to know improvisation (the parent company of being lucky) which is about knowing how to generate consistently positive outcomes from unforeseen circumstances. And what better way to illustrate this point...

New Martini - Luck is an Attitude.