About Create Your Own Luck ℠ It’s not chance, it’s your choice.
How Perspiration, Intuition and Consistent Daily Practice Cultivate Good Fortune
Join me on my journey as I work to create a very valuable book that will help young professionals and entrepreneurs find their passion and accelerate their success. Looking forward to building a community around shared ideas and hopefully have the ability to incorporate some of your thoughts and experiences along the way.
When asked, “why aren’t you where you want to be in life,” or “why aren’t you at the level of financial success you dream of?” – people often answer negatively; choosing to focus on what’s standing in their way or stopping them from achieving their goals. Maybe they believe that others have just ‘gotten lucky’ or been in the right place at the right time. Certainly there are some components of timing and opportunity. However following our lifes’ passion and attaining success is not just a matter of chance, but rather making a series of strategic choices in both our professional and personal lives.
To truly be successful, we must deconstruct and emulate the mindset and daily habits that create ‘flow’ and ‘mastery’ in super-achievers from all walks of life—athletes, artists, scientists, doctors, bankers, lawyers; Identifying universal core tenets, lifestyle choices and character traits that lead to ‘good fortune.’
Being in the ‘Right Place, at the Right Time’ is more likely to happen if you take a macro-view and then seek out the specific people, places and industries that will help you grow personally and professionally. This blog will help you increase your ‘luck’ by guiding you through a personalized analysis of industries that are trending vs. shrinking; geographical locations that are booming not bottoming out; and teaching you ways to make face-to-face connections and social networks with people who are smarter, more successful, have more expertise than you and can therefore help you get to where you want to be in 10-years.
I am an exercise enthusiast and understand first-hand the importance of ‘perspiration’ as a daily practice that is directly linked to my success. The minutes that most business leaders spend working out are often the only real alone time they will get all day. The daily workout is a time to reflect on what is going on in your life, listen to your inner-voices in a quiet, uncluttered space and get an emotional read on how you feel about things that are happening in your life. It is also a time to connect the dots of seemingly unrelated ideas and strategize a fresh game plan to seize the day. “Eureka: I’ve found it!” moments are most likely to happen when you are exercising. Albert Einstein said of E=MC2: “I thought of it while riding my bicycle.”
I will also explore how the choices you make in day-to-day life manifest a consistent pattern of ‘winning’ that some onlookers might chalk up to being ‘lucky’ but that you know is not merely coincidence. I will teach you how to ‘toot your own horn’ tactfully and remind your peers and superiors that your success and good fortune is not accidental—but in fact a direct result of your competence and determination to be the best that you can be.
-Rob
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Great post! Look forward to reading more.
Thanks.
Thank you. Please read my latest post. Rob
This free sharing of information seems too good to be true. Like cmomnsuim.
THX that’s a great awsenr!
Hmmmmmmm. Tell me more!
Rob
We worked together for many years in IBT and you most definately knew how to inspire the sales team how to go the extra distance to win all those great deals.
My constant memory was that we focused on what the CLIENT wanted to buy and what service THEY wanted to receive rather than what WE wanted to sell.
In a good deal these points were always aligned, but that starting point in any deal allowed us to LISTEN to the client and bring them a proposal that totally captured their requirements.
I look forward to your book as there is a great experience, to be shared, on how to position yourself to win deals that others might think you should not – this was a key component of the amazing success that was IBT.
JR
Thanks JR. Yes, I think we transformed the sales culture and built deals and relationships that were good for all. You were one of the best at it and it was fun since we were all on the same page as we were building new markets and relationships around the world. I feel a new blog post coming on! Something about culture and sales ethics! Win-win solutions are the only way to go. Do you remember any great examples, without mentioning names of course? Thank you again JR. Rob
Rob
Sorry it took me a while to respond. I remember one example (which mirrors many more) – A very large European Client set us a target for full data / NAV delivery by 6am CET… but noted that it was almost definately NOT achievable as the pricing through S&P for close of business US & South American Securities took way too long. The solution was not to wait for S&P to release the prices but to snap them at the exact same time. This was tested and found to be a really good match. The client saw this a a highly simple & innovative solution to a problem they didn’t see as solvable. They got their solution – we got the business. A real example of win-win as they saw a business partner seeking to provide creative solutions.
JR
John, That’s a great example of the creativity and passion to excel at IFIN. It was part of our culture. We loved those challenges and what set us apart was being open minded and successful most of the time. Isn’t that a great individual strategy and attitude for all of us to have in life? Simple to say, hard to make a habit. Yet, these types of characteristics are what set us apart in our careers and make us remarkable. I love that word ‘remarkable’. Worthy of making a ‘remark’ about, hopefully a very positive remark. Especially important when you have your superiors ‘remarking’ about your creativity and desire to develop and implement solutions! Thanks for the great example!
You rlealy saved my skin with this information. Thanks!
Well done Rob. Time to pay it forward.
I’d love to GinaG but narrow the focus a little bit please. What are your larger career or life challenges? Rob
I did not expect a core theme of your system in creating better luck to be “physical activity” but after reading your home page and the bullet points/explanations it makes a lot of sense! I really need to RE-THINK this aspect of my personal and professional journey. In my life, I have always found a way to “land on my feet” or “turn lemons into lemonade” but I can only imagine how much more so I would have accomplished it in my past if I thought critically about what you lay out in your opening statement. I’m going to start this week by getting on the treadmill and really pushing myself to commit to this mindset. Thank you for the insight!