Thank goodness I'm not easily intimidated, or I'd
be filled with anxiety knowing that Bob Bly, the man McGraw-Hill calls "America's best copywriter," subscribes to both of my email lists.
So every time I hit "send," one of the best in the business sees it (and every now and again he replies).
Well, not long ago Bob wrote not to criticize my writing, but to suggest that I had overstated my case. I had said, "Nobody drifts
into great things." I was saying that the person who formulates and executes a plan and takes the new year bull by the horns, is going to do better than someone who just carries on doing what he's done year in and year out.
Bob wrote, in response to my "Nobody drifts into great things":
"Luck plays a role to one degree or another.
"For instance, Charles
Steinmetz, whom I wrote a book about, figured out much of the mechanisms of electricity after a lightning bolt went through the window of his lake house and struck a mirror on the wall."
Now Bob is right about that: we cannot discount the role of luck. But we can't rely on luck, either: nobody can know when it is going to strike.
So we do everything that is within our control
to make things happen, and then if we get lucky, too, that's a bonus.
But by doing everything in our control, we help make our own luck. At the very least, we position ourselves to be able to take advantage of luck when it strikes.
In my case, the best example is that in 2021 I sought and implemented the advice of the great Jay Abraham as to what I should be doing
professionally. That in turn led to another thing, and then another, and at each step along the way I made connections that made me more successful.
Was it by "luck" that I made those connections, though? Or was it that I put myself in a position in which those good things were most likely to happen?
I would like to help you make some luck for yourself.
I'm offering an encore of my presentation on how you can push back
against the "infinite workday" concept and get your life back while prospering more than ever, and even how starting from scratch you can seize the technology we have today to build something you can be proud of that also pays the bills.
As I've been saying, isn't it strange that this miraculous technology seems to make us more on call, more tethered to work, and more frantic, when you'd think it should be the opposite? It can
be that way, but good luck figuring it out. Well, ol' Woods has figured it out.
And when you get it figured out, it won't have happened by pure luck. You will have made your own luck.
The first step is reserving your spot by clicking here: