The first question ought to be, what is luck, does it exist? If it doesn’t, then what are we talking about? If it does, then how can we be lucky? Is there really a secret fomular for luck?
All these, reminds me of an occurence that happened lately, I had an opportunity to relay it with a team of people in the UK last week, and it dawned on me that it really was an interesting occurrence. We had BIT (Billionaires in Training) in Lagos Nigeria and after the event, we had our normal recap. For those who do not know, the major highlight of the BIT is an opportunity for people to network, play a fun game of Cashflow 101, do an extensive recap of the learnings from the game and share real life opportunities we can all partake of to make it out of the rat race. It’s usually an exciting time, and an opportunity to meet new people.
In this particular BIT, we were doing the recap and someone noted that he observed that in the game as in life, there was a lot of luck involved. He mentioned that he noticed that a particular couple were very lucky. They seemed to get the right opportunities, throw the right scores, they definitely had luck.
When it was the lucky couples turn to respond, the answer was shocking and interesting ๐
The guy (among the couple) spoke up, “we were not lucky!” He went on to analyze what they had done. Everytime it was their turn to play, they did not just go ahead and roll the dice, they actually counted what they needed and called it out before they played, not once, everytime. More often than not, it worked. He shared how before coming he had made up his mind to win, and had planned a strategy by which he would exit the rat race and buy his dream. One team thought there was luck, and the lucky team explained how it happened.
A long time ago, I personally came to discover the fact that more often than not, luck is the name we give to what we do not understand. A young man tells you he made a million dollars and you say, “oh, how lucky”. He explains how hard he’s worked for the last 10yrs and all of a sudden, you figure out, that’s not luck, that’s work! Luck exists mostly with the ignorant. Having defined the fundamentals, below is the secret fomular for geting lucky. Please read carefully and practice, it will change your life. It’s changing mine.
1. Nothing Just Happens!
The first step in the secret fomular to getting lucky is to understand that what is defined as luck is not arbitrary. Nothing in this life is arbitrary. Luck is the name we give to what we don’t fully understand. As Albert Eintein is quoted as saying, God does not play dice. The universe is designed on laws, God made no mistakess, he’s not going around trying to correct them.
2. Every Effect has a Cause!
There is a fundamental law that governs life. This law manifests itself in different forms, and can be seen in the Bible – Spiritual, in Physics – Physical and in philosophy – Mental. It’s the law of seed time and harvest, it’s the law that states that we do unto others as we want done to us. It’s the law that says that action and reaction are opposite and equal. Every success you see in this world can be replicated. All you need to do is analyze to obtain the root causes and replicate the root causes.
3. Expand your knowledge base!
Luck is limited to the things we have little or no knowledge about. If a student studies hard for an exam and aces a 90%, he’s not termed lucky, he’s termed hardworking. This is because we are all averagely knowledgeable about the fact that study translates to good results. If a guy body builds he’ll have a good build, if a lady exercises she should loose some weight. No one calls them lucky, why? Because we know about these things. If a person however becomes wealthy, becomes a leader or meets with our classification of successful, we say they are lucky, why? Because we don’t know that it’s replicateable! Search for knowledge abougt the areas you want to be successful in, search for the best, understand the dna of success in that section and replicate it.
4. Feed your Desire for Success!
In any area of life where you want people to say about you “She’s lucky”, fuel your desire! Desire is possibility seeking experession. Desire has the ability to make you a magnet for the object of your desire. If human beings were radios, deisre is their antenna. Desire tunes you to stations that existed all the while that you could not reach. Desire is the tuner that makes opportunities to jam preparation. Around about you where you are, there are tons of limitless possibilities, there are many stations playing, the one you can hear, is the one your desire is tuned to. To guage your seriousness about any possibility guage your desire.
5. Match Desire with Action
Your desire will typically be for a level much higher than where you currently are. It will also demand a higher level of excellence than you are currently demonstrating. It could also mean that your network needs an uplift as well. Deliberately begin to alter your level of service to match your desire. Don’t wait until things change, begin to change the things that you can. There must be a connecting activity between your current reality and your desired reality. That connecting point is quality action. A student that desires to be first, must being to read like someone who wants to be the first. The quality of reading matches the intensity of desire. Based on this quality, he/she begins to meet new friends and form new relationships. Ultimately, the goal is achieved.
26 thoughts on “Secret Fomular to Getting Lucky”
You hit some important points here. Nothing comes by chance. I have since learnt that the people that many called “lucky” are those who do not only understand what they want in life but also have commitment to action. The challenge now is for all sit down and chart a course of action and then make a decision to follow through.
Some months ago, I attended a lunch session course on “creating your own luck” and this just sounds very much an updated version of that short course, and o boy, how my life has changed since that course. Indeed, it’s those things we can’t explain that we call luck.
I’m locking on to these invaluable lessons, and they are already changing my life.
Create your luck folks and you’ll find out that you are as “lucky” as you can desire to be.
Thanks for this chairman!
Well am a very lucky man. Believe me i know i will be lucky long ago and i will be lucky again.Watch out for me “the blessed man”.
This is a good one Adeolu, really in life what you desire & work towards it while being focused you would surely achieve when it all springs out for others to see the next thing is that whao! this guy is lucky, but they where not there when you where toiling and trying to fix things together. God being our helper ALL would be well with us all.
Thanks Man
luck is all about believing that you are lucky.
its a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.
Luck! Luck! Luck!
To first start with,my reading ur piece,deolu,is it luck?No!My responding to ur piece too is far from being a luck.My being happy about your piece is not luck as well.All these are my choice.
I had so many options on sites to browse but I chose to check ur blog out cos I know what I will get from it.Now,reading ur piece for the day and being excited about it(my choice) and then I chose to add my comment.All these things I did could have been done otherwise If I wanted to.
Deolu,until people begin to realize that they have a choice to make in every thing that happpens to them,they won’t achieve what they want to.
People need to realize that every actions they take is as a result of their choice.And that their definition of a particular situation(condition) influences their choice of response to the situation.What then influences their definition of a particular situation?It is their perception about themselves(self awareness).They need to have the right attitude.
When u have the right attitude.You will see everything about life from the positive perspective.You will know that nothing can intimidate u cos u can make a change.You will realize that u re an innovative being and as well response-able.Nothing happens to us without our consent.
This kind of spirit based on the right character and a true value garnished with a specific skill guarantees success in whatever you do.
The earlier we realize that our life is in our hands,the better.
I don’t believe in luck!
Nothing happens by chance.
Truth is where you find it.
lucky people are those who toiled while others were sleeping.they do not become successful overnight.they seize opportunities and these multiplies as they are seized.
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This is lovely post.Life is all about choices,decisions and actions.
I think deolu has really helped me realise that luck doesnt come without delibrate effort to be whom you want to be.Thanks 4 the enlightenment.
luck def dont exist.u gat 2 work your own luck yourself or you get locked out!
thanks for this piece – i ma say that its a classic!
good stuff. really good stuff
‘Good stuff’, ‘nice one’, ‘I dont believe in luck’,’classic’ well u all are definitely right but in d issues of life it ain’t that simple, it goes beyond this words, I was priveledge to be in the BIT in Lagos Deolu is talking about and I happen to be one of the couple that said we did not really get lucky wlth our throws, but after listening to we the particpants, ‘CBN governor’ and Deolu the lessons were very clear and ve been trying to work by it, and I can tell u for free that its true its what u look for u get. MY definition of luck obviously wasn’t it, at all!!!. Perhaps because I just could not fathom how they threw whatever number they wanted to throw. The couple who won where playing with a plan,they had passion in there game, fueled by desire and strong will which was however lacking with me, I was just leaving all to faith dealing with number as they showed up.
For me the lesson was very clear and can be summed up in ‘the power of your will, never underestimate it’.
I never left the rat race, even though we were not making babies or being down sized as some other couples were I still did not get out of the rat race so its not a question of what happens to you but how u deal with it is what counts, infact the couple that where busy making babies still got out of the rat race and could also have bought their dream it was just a matter of time.
BIT Training was fun, and I indeed learnt some vital life lessons. Thank u Deolu and his crew for putting the BIT Tranining together and not forgetting the meal, “de…bee confirmed nii”, May God continue to bless you, amen!
Infact I look forward to putting this to practice everytime, when is the next BIT, cause I already c myself getting out of the rat race and buying my dream, watch out lol….
thanks deolu 4 enlightening about luck its really educating.delsu,abraka
hi deolu,lovely write up,do we say luck is the same thing as favour?am in support of dreams,visions,setting of goals and objectives and also preparation for all these to come to pass,but permit me to say few people in the world are favor or fortunate.do u agree with this?
I don’t believe in luck, I believe in God and His power to make things work together for good. I also believe like Bishop Oyedepo says and I paraphrase that to make things work, man must work. Cause and Effect.
Your thoughts keep the light shining for me in many ways. God bless you.
Luck?! Indeed its what we don’t understand that we call lucky. You can choose to be “lucky” and you can choose to be prepared for the opportunities that will come. Either way it goes, we just must get out of the rat race!
Great piece CM!
Hi, u really did hit the nail on the head.tks,uncle deolu
Well, this piece is great, I don’t really believe so much in luck too, but since there are so many things we will never understand given our human nature, we still will forever awe at some things which are simply beyond our comprehension, the bible says something about time for everything in the book of Ecclesiastes, but it also says somewhere about “time and chance happening to most things we do in life” do not get me wrong, i am not saying we must wait for luck but when we simply cannot explain certain things, then the God factor must be the only plausible explanation. this, most people refer to as luck
I concurr, Olufemi. A lot about this piece is right but i think u left one point out, Deolu. I figure that opportunity comes d way of everyone, prepared or not.Its he who is prepared and takes advantage of such that is considered lucky.
Even in all this, its a valid fact that there’s an unseen element of ur will power attracting to you the things you desire strongly enough…
When you equip yourself and you make use of an opportunity when it comes along, people say you ‘just got lucky’. Now those same people probably didnt encourage you when you were gathering all those skills and knowledge and most likely thought you were wasting your time.
It’s motivating and nothing but the truth. Deolu, please clarify the dna of success. Please attend to the spellings of your articles. I believe it can always get better.
hmmm… luck… i definitely agree with the luck that is created by each and everyone of us, where our deeds today turn into our realities tomorrow, karma as some people call it. but i also believe in the higher level of luck that greases the path of the luck we create: when you’ve prepared hard and done all the hard work, and on the final day of reckoning, your competition is out of the race because they came down with a nasty fever; when you struggle to get on a bus but still miss it for whatever reason only to later learn it was involved in a fatal accident; when you are all set for a 5-day out of town trip and miss the first bus because you forgot something important and had to return home only to get there and see all the fuses in your house had started exploding, enabling you call for help just in time before it escalated into a fire. Those are the little mercies of God in our lives, when in spite of ourselves, we’re saved from extremely negative events. Those we cannot take for granted as being by our own doing, and we always have to give thanks to the Most High for blessing us so.
thank u sir for this wonderful piece again.u really always inspire me.i usually think because some people are beautiful,priviledged to be born by wealthy parents,grew up in the right environment, they are lucky but over time, i learnt otherwise that you create your own world through you positive actions.it is only ignorance of the truth that will make a person think that luck actually exists. because of this ‘luck’, many are lazy not wanting to try hard enough to get to the top.like someone said that opportunity comes the way of evryone. he who is prepared enough and takes the chance is termed lucky.may God bless you and our Great country naija.
To buttress the comment I made earlier, you are what you continually do and success is the end-result of a process. So, again I say there no luck anywhere. Thank you!
Hmmm….
That means luck is only on the lips and vocabulary of ignorants and lazy people because success in any endeavour is the outcome hardwork that an achieves went through.