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The Rules of Good Luck

March 13, 2007

"Luck doesn't last long, because it does not depend on you. Good luck is created by each of us: that's why it lasts forever.

1. Many are those who want Good Luck, but few are those willing to pursue it. If you have no Good Luck now, it might be because you're under the usual conditions. To have Good Luck, you must create new conditions.
2. Finding new conditions for Good Luck does not mean looking for our own benefit only. Creating conditions, helping others, makes Good Luck more likely to appear.
3. If you postpone the creation of new conditions, Good Luck never arrives. Creating new conditions is sometimes hard work, but…do it today!
4. Sometimes, even under the seemingly right conditions, Good Luck doesn't arrive. Look for the seemingly unnecessary but indispensable conditions in the small details.
5. To those who only believe in chance, creating conditions seems absurd. Those who create conditions are not worried about chance.
6. Nobody can sell Good Luck. Good Luck cannot be sold. Do not trust those who sell luck.
7. Creating Good Luck consists in preparing conditions for opportunity. But opportunity has nothing to do with luck or chance: it is always there.
8. Creating Good Luck consists only in…creating the conditions (Rovira & Trias de Bes, 2004, p. 133-135)."

Reference: Rovira, A.; & Trias de Bes, F. (2004). Good luck: create the conditions for success in life and business. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

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Created: 2007-04-19, Updated: 2009-02-26