A Message From The Man on The Titanic “People make their own luck”

I’ve known this ever since I was a teenager in secondary school 60 years ago but I had never seen how it applied to me until recently. Our Tai Chi instructor, Lee Welch, told us about a desired option which was opening up for him. He had previously shared with me some insights he’d had about focus which caused me to think and I was responding to him by text congratulating him on his opportunity and wishing him good luck.

In the film “Titanic” one character (I think it’s DiCaprio) is challenged about the lifestyle he leads and he responds “People make their own luck”. As I wrote the text to Lee this hit me like a sledgehammer. What I was doing was making my own mixture of good luck, bad luck by my focus on me not being good enough but knowing I had the capability to make a difference for others and not using that ability because of my fear of not good enough.

No wonder I felt stuck. OK, what’s the solution? I know that I have two skills businesses need; I can write good promotional material relatively quickly and I can see answers to difficulties while other people are struggling to understand the situation. The question is – how do I apply these so that I make a difference for others?

The thought occurs to me ‘how do I apply them to me so that I make a difference for me?’ This is where the line between me telling a story of what I’m doing and me promoting myself as a business person becomes extremely blurred. And I’m not very good at promoting myself. So I’m going to leave it here and suggest that you look carefully through this issue of the Guide for stuff you haven’t seen before.

.David Hands
Millionaire in training