Success - Is It Luck Or Attitude

**skyjoe76** · 03-13-2008 06:35 AM

"Maybe my millionaire neighbor is lucky", "He is so lucky that he landed that millionaire dollar contract." Did you ever have such thoughts about someone who is successful? Maybe you do not have this thought, and that's good news. Why good news? Because then you would not have wait years for your LUCK to drop from the sky, you can make things happen - you can create LUCK.

Do you believe that success is caused by luck? Yes, I believe! Is it true that successful people has good attitude? Yes, absolutely! Success is created by luck; and luck is created by good attitude.

Having good or positive attitude is actually one of the major keys to success. Having a positive attitude turns bad situations around it, it finds solution in problems, and it seeks opportunities in crisis. Some people sees crisis as problems, some find opportunities in them. This is the difference between successful people and not successful people.

In the year of 2003, SARS hit Asia. People die of the sickness; people dare not go out of their houses. The usual busy shopping mall became a ghost mall; the airport was empty with only the people on duty. The economy of Asia was badly hit. However, still there are people who make lots of money from the crisis. At the same time, there are many people who complains about the economy, no customers etc. Good attitude turns the negative into positive, it just depends if you want to control your attitude.

Having a good attitude is just a matter of choice. You can change it within seconds. You can sit around to complain everything, or you can stop complaining and say, "Hey, what good can I make out of this situation?" When you start asking this question, your mind start to shift, your energy changes, your emotions turns for the better. Your mind will start looking for the good things and you find yourself feeling great. Successful people always feel great about themselves.

Luck happened to you when you have a positive attitude. By turning situation around, you are creating LUCK at the same time. You create the condition for Luck to fall on you. One warning to you; prepare yourself well before luck befall on your knee. Most people wasted their time away without mentally preparation, and when luck falls onto them, they don't know what to do with it, therefore allowing luck to slip by.

Prepare yourself well so that when luck falls, you have the wisdom to capitalize on it. It takes a good attitude to prepare yourself.

You asked me if success is caused by luck or attitude. I say both.

**jumper666jr** · 03-13-2008 06:47 AM

success is not a luck. GOOGLE, IBM, GE, Emerson, MSFT does it look like luck?
hard work that you enjoy and fullfills you

**tazman9r** · 03-13-2008 08:47 AM

Right on, man, right on.

**BusinessAdviser** · 03-13-2008 12:24 PM

It's a combination. But without the right attitude, as well as several other factors within your control, you won't be in a position to take advantage of the right things happening at the right times, or as some people call it, "luck."

**babyjoy214** · 03-13-2008 01:53 PM

hmmm.. I believe Luck given by God is and hardwork is the key to success.. I agree with the positive attitude.. I also found this blog here It's about "my son the business teacher"

there are a lot things you can learn from a child.. It was nice and true.. we can really learn things from a kid..

**HarveyJ** · 03-13-2008 06:45 PM

I think you people are discounting luck in a big way... or coincidence at the very least.
Hard work is likely to reward you, but circumstances will do so even more.

I know two guys that started business in the exact same field, about 6 months apart from each other. At the time (early 90s) no one else was getting in the products that these guys were, which happened to be English language versions of Japanese anime cartoons.
They both worked equally as hard as each other at it.
They both bought titles after researching the success rate of the title in the States.
One guy was buying up titles that happened to be doing very well in a cross demographic market.
The other bought a title that was a kinda ho-hum children's title.

A toy line for the children's title came out, the damn thing exploded in the market, and he ended up getting bought out by Funtastic.Ltd for about $35m

They were both doing equally well until another company that was totally unrelated bought merchandising rights to one of the series...

That's luck...

**Ahern & Brucker** · 03-14-2008 04:07 PM

I don't know...

I agree that luck is important but maybe people have a different understanding of luck...?

Maybe Luck is the ability to recognize opportunity... and if that is the case, Luck would be something we can nourish and develope within ourselves... awareness, reasoning, logic etc.?