How To Be Lucky In Life

Why do some people seem to be more lucky in life than everyone else? Some find it easier to succeed and life seems to be kinder to them than you, right?  You work hard, your are a good person, you try hard but life is tough. Why is that? It’s a really easy question for me to answer because I have been told many times that I am lucky, I can tell you right now that life has been tough for me too and my success has nothing to do with random chance, I have made my own luck and now I show others how to use simple strategies to make their own luck. This doesn’t stop some continuing to tell me that I’m lucky which is fine by me because I think it’s a sign that I’m doing something right and people are recognizing my success.

The thing about life is that it’s completely unpredictable, things in my life have often worked out differently to how I expected them to. Investments I thought were sure-fire hits failed, small projects turned into massive earners, people I thought I wouldn’t like became great friends and relationships I thought were unbreakable broke down. In this respect I am no different to everyone else, even with the most specific planning, events take you and your plans off track. A saying I am often quoting is: “The only difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how we use them”. How lucky or successful you are in life depends on whether you see external influences on your plans or unavoidable life changes as stumbling blocks or stepping stones.

Nearly everything that happens to us in life is a potential opportunity, it’s down to us whether we want to see it as an annoying occurrence getting in the way or the chance of a lifetime. Even if you take the chance of a lifetime, THAT might not work out how you expected and take you down a slightly different road but the point is as long as you are moving in the right direction you are still making great progress.

Recently I was discussing this concept with a really close friend who I’ve known since childhood and they told me that they often feel worried what other people will say when they change their plans and they think some people are just waiting for them to face just the smallest failure so they can jump on it and use it to belittle what they are doing. My friend asked how I faced down my critics and the people waiting for me to fail and my answer was this: “I don’t care what ANYBODY thinks and I never have”. I even told that friend that I didn’t care what they think, which at first they were offended by but it’s true. I explained there is a difference between caring about people and caring what they think. I care about a lot of people but if I got hung up on what they thought about me and what I was doing I would never get anywhere.

When life throws you a curve ball just keep swinging, eventually you are going to smash one out of the park. If you just stand there worried that you might miss then you are guaranteed to strike out. So much that happens to us in life is a potential opportunity, it’s down to us whether we want to see it as an annoying occurrence getting in the way or the chance of a lifetime. Even if you take the chance of a lifetime, it might not work out how you expected and take you down a slightly different road but the point is as long as you are moving in the right direction you are still making great progress.

If you want some further information on how I made it from a teenage homeless hostel to become a successful entrepreneur and my strategies for success have a look at my book How To Be Lucky. There are also loads more useful posts on my How To Be Lucky Blog.

The best of luck to you with everything you do in your life.
Matt Kinsella