“Luck? I don’t know anything about luck. I’ve never banked on it and I’m afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work – and realizing what is opportunity and what isn’t.” – Lucille Ball
Your experience might differ, but I find much wisdom in what Lucille Ball says. Good luck is not just chance. Rather it is recognizing and seizing an opportunity for which you are prepared due to prior hard work. Similarly, bad luck is frequently lack of preparation catching up to you.
Hard work and preparation by itself does not guarantee success. It does provide a solid foundation and launch pad when opportunities arise. An opportunity has to arise, but opportunities are like streetcars. They show up all the time. You do have to recognize them when they appear and accept that the one currently available may not be available again if you let it pass. That is what Ball means when talks about realizing what is opportunity and what isn’t.
It is not luck, though. It is opportunity realized.
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