What’s luck got to do with your success?

August 3, 2007 · Posted in Choices, Entrepreneurship, Motivation, Success 

GUEST WRITER: Scot Kay – Inventor of the Rotater

Are you a lucky person? Or, are you the most unlucky person on the planet?

I have come to realize that there is no such thing as luck, but don’t lose hope because there is something that is even more magical. It’s called work.

My partner Chris Melton, has said to me, “the harder he works, the luckier he gets”. It’s all about the effort. A book that I have been reading says, “success is the crown of effort”.

Most people look at the outer appearance of someone. They look at their life and their toys. Then, they make the assumption that they (successful people) are just lucky. I have been as guilty of this as anybody else until becoming enlightened over the past year.

I looked at Jonah White, one of the guys responsible for those “Bubba” teeth that you see in every Spencer’s, truck stop, convenience store and novelty shop across the country and I thought to myself, “that has got to be one of the luckiest people in the world”. He took something so simple and turned it into millions.

I recently read an interview with him in the success / personal developement magazine “MILLIONAIRE BLUEPRINTS” and realized just what he had to go through to generate those millions. I was awe struck. I am pretty ambitious myself, but I don’t know if I could do all the things he had to do to get “there”. He absolutely worked his butt off. I guess success really is the “crown of effort”.

When you see someone successful, don’t make the false assumption that their success is the result of luck. This is seldom the case and if you are interested in statistics, then here is one that will interest you: The bankruptcy rate of all mega – lottery winners (amounts in excess of one million dollars) is 80%!

These people (lottery winners) are both lucky and unlucky.

  1. They were lucky to win the money.

  2. They were unlucky because they had no idea how to handle their new-found wealth.

If you want to be successful, then pick out someone that you “think” acquired their wealth as a result of luck, follow them around and then do exactly what they did. You’ll find out there is a lot more “doing” involved in their success than being lucky. This is the primary reason that more people are not financially successful – because there is hard work and lots of it required.

If you:

  • work your butt off day and night

  • drive mile after mile to meet people and promote yourself and product

  • go without sleep (cause you are trying to work two or three jobs)

  • miss all the home-cooked meals

  • miss valuable time with your family

…and you finally achieve success, then there will still be people who tell everyone who will listen, that you were just lucky.

Others will never know the struggles that you had to go through, or the battles that you invited and brought on yourself. They will only see the “outer” appearance and assume you are “lucky”.

I must agree with my friend and partner, that “the harder that I work, the luckier I get”.

How “lucky” are you going to be? There is no degree of uncertainty or chance – you get to decide!!

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