LUCK FAVOURS THOSE WHO HELP THEMSELVES
A flood was threatening a small town and everyone was leaving for safe ground except for one man who said "God will save me. I have faith". As the water level rose, a jeep came to rescue him, the man refused, saying "God will save me. I have faith". As the water level rose further, he went up to the second story of his house and a boat came to help him, again he refused to go, saying "God will save me. I have faith". The water kept rising and the man climbed on to the roof. A helicopter came to rescue him, but he said, "God will save me. I have faith". Well, finally he drowned. When he reached his maker, he angrily questioned, "I had complete faith in you, why did you ignore my prayers and let me drown?" The Lord replied, "Who do you think sent you the jeep, the boat and the helicopter?"
This type of attitude is what I called in my last post "Fatalistic attitude". The only way to overcome it is to accept responsibility and believe in the law of cause and effect rather than Luck. It takes action, preparation and planning rather than waiting, wondering and wishing to accomplish any goal in life.
LUCK SHINES ON THE DESERVING
Alexander Graham Bell was desperately trying to invent a hearing aid for his partially deaf wife. He failed at inventing a hearing aid but in the process discovered the principles of the telephone. You wouldn't call someone like that lucky, would you?
Good luck is when preparation meets opportunity. Without effort and preparations, lucky coincidences don't happen.
LUCK
★. He worked by day and toiled by night
★. He gave up play and some delight
★. Dry books he read, new things to learn and forged ahead, Success to earn.
★. He plodded on with Faith and pluck; and when he won, Men Called It Luck.
I will like to stop here for now, in my next post we will be looking at some things that make people lazy and believe in luck.
Thanks for reading through, it's still your boy Tonybest.