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How do you make decisions? Luck? Hard work? Sense of timing?
By Gary | July 23, 2008
It's been said that "luck" really never comes without hard work. One common "adage" I've heard a lot regarding online marketing is this one: "I find that the harder I work the luckier I get."
I would add that "luck" or good fortune or success in career and life in general often is a matter of timing. That means, you stay focus and get organized, and with a lot of hard work -- you find your "timing" getting better, regarding work, relationships, and life in general.
I've often found myself struggling with this issue of timing. Sometimes I think I'm the sort of guy who causes rainstorms because I choose to wash my car. Or perhaps like the guy who looks into Outer Banks rentals for a vacation trip during hurricane season?
Well, maybe not that extreme. But I've sometimes said to my wife, when faced with career decisions, that it really doesn't matter which of two options I choose, it'll be the wrong one. In my less cynical moments, of course, I agree with her when she tells me that's unlikely if not impossible.
In the end, I know that hard work and focus are the "keys" to success, not luck or not some capriciousness of the universe. We develop "timing" and find "luck" as we organize ourselves, study, study, study, work hard, and get on with life's daily decisions.
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