I have dealt with this a lot in my career. Some would say I was lucky. Some would say I was a chump and finagled my way in. Others would say I was passionate and worked really hard. But I can say this; to quote LOTR, “It’s a scary thing walking out of your front door.” Big things happen, but I think the main thing is having a goal and vision for your life. Once that’s established you have something to strive and push for. If you don’t have those two key ingredients, then yes, you will be waiting in the aisle for a long time. You can’t plan for luck. It just happens along the way.

An interesting post. I think we use luck as a way to avoid addressing why an event really happenned to us. It often reflects a level of jealousy on the part of someone using the expression “wow that was lucky”. I know that happens when I am sailing. If you try a move that provides a reward its luck yet when it fails its bad luck. But it isn’t, it is the result of planning and interpreting the input information well.

Sometimes it also is a shelter for us not to address the question of what is miraculous. We might say that it is the confluence of several improbable events to meet a particular need or result at a particular point in time.

I think so called luck takes planning and work. It isn’t luck at all. The miraculous is something else, you can’t plan for it.