There's a belief that's rabid out there that I'm going to refute. You know what? If you
achieve success, part of it's luck. Part of it is luck, and part of the luck is the timing
of things. If you're on the search and on the lookout for people who can help you, in
a way, being on the lookout for people who can help you is doing something that some
people talk about as creating your own luck. It's true, that, but you can be ever so good
and be responsible for your own behavior and your own choices and so on, and still there's
some element of luck that something takes off at a certain moment, and I want to acknowledge
that because there are people who really do everything well. We affirm well. It's not
that they're bringing up a hoax or whatever, and it just takes them a lot longer to get
where they're going, but that's the operative thing, that it takes longer, not that they
don't reach it. The most powerful thing you can do is persist and be consistent in taking
actions in the direction of your goals. Jack Canfield got really interested in writing
a book about the kinds of stories that were at the back of Parade magazine. Parade magazine
was in most newspapers in the late 19--well, whatever. It's been--I think it's around now.
Parade magazine still exists. It's a circular. And he saw those stories. There was always
some story. It was kind of touching and a little bit heartbreaking, but it moved people,
and they wanted to read that story. He thought, what if I could be a force for good by accumulating
a bunch of those stories and putting them in a book? And the book became, as you know,
a runaway bestseller, an impossibly huge bestseller, and it was Chicken Soup for the Soul. And
he connected with a guy named Mark Victor Hansen, and between the two of them, they
schemed and schemed and schemed as to how to make their book a bestseller. Well, I think
there were, I don't know, 30-40 versions of Chicken Soup for the Soul for the this soul,
the that soul, the nursing soul. I mention this because of the persistence and the work
they did. They did not have good luck. They had a good idea and then amazing devotion
to tracking things down. When the New York Times would not publish the book because they
said, look, this is group authorship, I can't give you, you know, jack, they said, so is
the Bible group authorship, and the Bible has been on the bestseller list of the New
York Times and so on forever. It just takes you longer without luck. Sometimes you get
luck, and magical things happen together, and if it's not too much luck and you get
overwhelmed by sudden success that blows you completely off your course because you don't
know what to do with it, then getting it is useful, but the more you prepare to have the
luck, when that luck finally happens, you're ready to know what to do with it and take
it home. But if you kind of wait for dumb luck, and you're not prepared, you can blow
it. You can be a one-hit wonder so fast. One time, one thing, and then you're gone. You've
got to be ready because anything that occurs like luck has to come into a ready vessel
in order to make things happen. Gotta be ready for good fortune, and you've got to actively
seek it. So yes, luck is involved in some people's career. Hard work has to be. Luck
doesn't have to be, but it helps a lot at certain moments. What helps the most is the
preparation, the persistence, the consistency, the focus. Since you're a high achiever you
may know about this. High achievers often hit a wall. They're going along, they're having
one success after another and then suddenly, something happens and they grind to a halt.
And it's confusing because they're not sure what it is they've done wrong if anything.
They just know that they're not moving anymore the way they're used to moving. The way they
have moved in the past. If you've run into like what seems like a ceiling over you and
you're kind of in a fog and you're mystified by what's getting in your way, you can even
kind of slide into a swirl of doubts and wonder if you ever really achieved anything significant
at all and whether any of your amazing achievements you have done were anything but kind of fronting
or a little bit of a fraud. That is really negative and pernicious and it doesn't have
to be that way. I want you to go get a free report from me. Go to DrKenChristian.com/Breakthrough
and receive from me this free report with action steps that are going to tell you exactly
what to do now to get you going.