Luck and Motivation

“Suc­cess is sim­ply a mat­ter of luck. Ask any fail­ure.“
– Earl Wilson

Goals prop­erly aligned will give you an impelling momen­tum that, like a snow­ball rolling down a snow cov­ered hill, increases in size and speed along the way. The more you work on your pri­or­i­ties, the more moti­vated you will become and the more timely the results you will pro­duce. They will increase and keep on increasing.

Pam Lon­tos once wrote, “Momen­tum cre­ates more momen­tum as moti­va­tion actu­ally feeds on itself.” Each lit­tle suc­cess achieved will increase your self-​​esteem, your effec­tive­ness, and of course, your efficiency.

Align­ment will also grant you the abil­ity to dis­cover hid­den oppor­tu­ni­ties and resources; oppor­tu­ni­ties and resources you thought you never had. An aligned per­son some­how has more of everything.

Through the Law of Attrac­tion, work­ing with a sense of pur­pose ignites this inner mag­netic force that pos­i­tively attracts the right kinds of peo­ple, sit­u­a­tions, expe­ri­ences, ideas, and oppor­tu­ni­ties you will need along your jour­ney. Ulti­mately, serendip­ity is the result of alignment.

You might think that this is a whole bunch of “mumbo-​​jumbo.” But in fact, when peo­ple are aligned, they are often con­sid­ered “lucky.” Is it because of some meta­phys­i­cal magic? Is it the result of some super­nat­ural event? Is it really luck? Or is it because oppor­tu­ni­ties pass them by every sin­gle day and that such an align­ment cre­ates a height­ened sense of aware­ness that causes them to dis­cover what has been there all along? Of course, the lat­ter is the right answer.

Align­ment is open­ing your­self up to a whole new dimen­sion, one that is and has always been there ready for you to enter when you are truly pre­pared for it. As Earl Nightin­gale once said, “Luck is when oppor­tu­nity meets preparation.”

Man­age­ment guru Peter Drucker once said, “Effi­ciency is doing things right while effec­tive­ness is doing the right thing.” I say that luck is the result of both. It’s doing the right things in the right way.

By align­ing your goals with to your val­ues, you are doing things right. Then, when you work on your goals (i.e., fol­low your val­ues), you are in fact doing the right things because they reflect your pri­or­i­ties. In the end, what you choose to do at any time will respond to your upper­most val­ues at all times.

This is where luck often comes in. You will have more desire, energy, and courage, and you will get a greater feel­ing of ful­fill­ment both while you’re work­ing on your goals and once they’re achieved. And you will attract all the nec­es­sary resources, events and peo­ple you need at that point.

Con­trary to the tra­di­tional way peo­ple set goals, the process dis­cussed in this book is in fact show­ing you how to do so in reverse. You are break­ing your core val­ues down into smaller, more digestible goals.

These are called “pipeline goals” or “point-​​to-​​point goals” (or what Bri­anTracy calls “bench­mark goals”). If you just set goals, for instance, you will sel­dom if never be effec­tive and, as often is the case, you will lower your self-​​esteem.

There­fore, you must first find out what your pri­or­i­ties are and then you use them to back up your goals. Together and prop­erly aligned, you will be able to develop your goals into the right tools, skills, rela­tion­ships, atti­tudes, and activ­i­ties that you will require in order to achieve your goals. Thus, when work­ing on your goals in reverse, you will become lucky.

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