On Thursday I wrote that Seth Godin only likes to do something if he can do it “really well” which
Author: Amir Lehrer
I am a typical person more or less that has always tried to get away with doing the absolute minimum to get by. In school, I did my assignments last minute, I barely passes some of my tests, I crammed for everything and didn't care about retaining any information.
I always wanted to be successful and get lucky but my problem was that I thought that luck and chance were synonymous. One day, all that changed when i found out that there was more to "Luck". I learned that it was possible to make your own luck and that people that were "lucky", all had very similar characteristics.
I made a conscious decision to become one of those lucky people and the world started to open up. It didn't happen overnight and I'm still not there yet but at least I know what to look for and what to do. Recognizing the opportunities to get lucky is only the beginning of the battle. Now I have to train myself to jump on every opportunity and one day be truly "lucky".
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I spent some time today messing around with some of the settings on this blog. I’m always trying to improve
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Picture Credit Problogger posted a while back about a conversation he had with Seth Godin about Twitter. Seth mentioned that
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