August 31, 2010

Are You Feeling Lucky?

Attitudes

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Lucky Buck
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Then click on Lucky Day for a two and a half minute video of some of the luckiest people on earth – pedestrians, drivers, even bank robbers.

Stay for the last one – I laughed out loud.

On a serious note, don’t disregard luck as a source of your business success. Not the only source. You have to be smart enough to recognize the luck and take advantage of it. But I doubt Bill Gates would be as successful as he is if he’d been born 30 years earlier. Would Sam Walton have done as well in the 1800’s as he did in the 1900’s? Would George W. Bush have been President if he’d been born in Texas to an oil family instead of Connecticut, to a political family? (look it up) Or Obama if he’d really been born in Kenya?

There’s been some interesting research on luck. Turns out people who feel lucky are more open to seeing possibilities that others miss. But those who think their success is all of their own doing, miss a lot of opportunities.

I read of one person who asks everyone she’s interviewing for a job if they are a lucky person.

Are you a luck person?

UPDATE: Turns out that last bit of the video is fake. Thank you SNOPES but still funny.

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About the author 

John Seiffer

I've been an entrepreneur since we were called Business Owners. I opened my first company in 1979 - the only one that ever lost money. In 1994 I started coaching other business owners dealing with the struggles of growth. In 1998 I became the third President of the International Coach Federation. (That's a story for another day.) Coaching just the owners wasn't enough for some. So I began to do organizational coaching as well. Now I don't have time to work with as many companies as I'd like, so I've packaged my techniques into this Virtual CEO Boot Camp.

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