When I attempt new things, I make it a habit to be successful. That would make for a great tweet. But the deeper truth is, I become successful at many things because I create the necessary habits to do so.
You can spend your morning jog obsessing over if you’re burning enough calories or how long it will take to be ready to run a marathon. Or you can notice the scenery and slide into the runner’s high.
If you want to learn humility, just try being a kid growing up with bad teeth. Of course, the problem is, in addition to humility, you also probably get the burden of insecurity and low self-esteem. Or at least that was the case with me…
Last post we looked at how luck factors into getting money. Let’s expand our study to the bigger picture of if and how luck factors into true prosperity.
Amazing how much power people attribute to luck, isn’t it? When they don’t have money, they ascribe it to being unlucky. And when they seem others with an abundance of money, they consider them “lucky.” Such a coincidence.
Let’s revisit something I wrote about in my Risky Is the New Safe book, but I believe didn’t get enough attention. How we as individuals – and society as a whole – can evolve.
