A Creator is Ready When Luck Strikes

Every successful creator has friends who think he or she is lucky.

They met that one curator at a coffee shop, or Oprah’s housekeeper accidentally left that book behind in the kitchen.

And the truth is their friends are right. They did get lucky. Everybody gets lucky.

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Luck is like the weather, it comes and goes, it makes crazy things happen randomly. But unless you actually spend the hours painting those paintings, meeting the curator amounts to nothing. And unless you put in the year to write the book, it can’t get left behind on Oprah’s counter.

Luck favors the prepared.

My friend Melisa told me about some people she’d heard of that win sweepstakes professionally. They enter drawings, lotteries, play bingo and sweepstakes and win an enormous amount of money every year. Are they lucky? Perhaps, but you would be too if you spent eight hours a day filling out forms and entering contests. It’s not unlike that with a creators work.

Don’t worry about luck. You can’t do anything about the weather and you can’t do anything about luck. All you can do is work. All you can do is create, and let your work go into as many places as it can so that good things will randomly happen.

A Creator is Ready When Luck Strikes is a post from: Storyline Blog