Many people believe success is luck. They point to someone rich, famous, gifted, or beautiful and say, “Look at them. They can walk into a room and read everything. They can present and make millions. They can start a project and watch it take off. They can learn a language fast. They can lose a hundred pounds and still look strong. They must be lucky.”
But think for a moment. If I asked you whether your sex is the best sex to be, whether your race is the best race, whether your country is the best country, whether your language is the best language, whether your mother is the best mother—you would probably say yes. Yet you didn’t choose any of those things. You didn’t select your race, your country, your parents, or your starting point. Those things just happened. They are flukes.
Success isn’t like that. Success is not a fluke. Success is technique. It’s experimentation. It’s trying, failing, adjusting, and finally landing on something that works—and then doing that thing again and again until it becomes natural.
Success principles don’t care who uses them. If a wealthy person can flip a switch and turn on a light, a poor person can flip the same switch. Success responds to action, not destiny.
Stop treating your life as if it’s ruled by chance. Your life bends toward what you repeatedly do. Success isn’t luck. Success is what works.