Do people who win on a higher level have a lucky gene? Or is there a pattern, a rule, a law of the universe at play we don’t know about?
Can you really make your luck?
The short answer is - yes. But it’s not a law of attraction kind of thing.
I’ve been spent a ton of time around people that seem to just win more.
I’ve myself been told by some the most self defeating five words in the English language “Easy for you to say…”
So…
What’s the easy first step to join the lucky people club?
What’s the rule behind what feels like pure luck?
What’s the common trap that ruins the win?
What’s the one mindset that puts you over the top?
After you read the post and make sure watch my latest video, I share some fun stories on how imposter syndrome could lose you life-changing opportunities and how to beat it.
making your luck
Is there an easy first step to join the visionaries club?
Yes, you can. You need to develop your ability to imagine, to visualize that dream scenario in such detail that you can taste it and feel it as real.
A while ago, I interviewed George Duke, one of my favorite musicians and producers. The man was a legend, working with people like Miles Davis, Michael Jackson, and Daft Punk. Kanye West sampled his work.
I asked George what the common trait was of the most successful artists he worked with, and he answered simply, “They could see themselves succeeding.”
I have mentored and coached several Olympians, and pretty much all of them say the same thing. You must envision the outcome you want in so much detail that you can taste it. It’s a practice.
What is your dream? Something your rational mind is afraid to accept as a realistic scenario for fear of failing.
Can you see it in detail? Play it in your mind until it’s real. Develop a visualization practice.
Is there any rule behind what feels like pure luck?
This one is rich, so here are three angles.
Angle 1: It’s not about law-of-attraction-style fluff. What it is about is pattern recognition. You can take an event, behavior, or scenario from the past that led to an outcome and transpose it into a new setting in the future.
In other words, what feels like a crazy, almost supernatural ability to be a visionary is based on this principle: experience informs expectations.
Angle 2: When building your next thing, always aim higher than you can clearly see with your logical mind.
Those who aim for “the middle,” the “rational,” the “conservative,” are in the vast majority. So this is the place that’s the most crowded.
Most of us have proof this works in one way or another.
Where have you jumped off a cliff, not fallen, and found new ground?
You do this over and over again, and before long people start thinking of you as just lucky.
What’s really happening is you tell yourself, “I’ve seen too much to expect too little.”
Angle 3: What people call manifestation or the law of attraction has a more down-to-earth explanation.
Priming yourself and your actions toward higher thinking, expectations, and outcomes tunes you to a higher frequency.
When opportunity comes your way, you simply see it where others don’t.
After moving to the US I had an idea to start a music video production company in Hollywood working with high level pros ( my wive’s background) to create videos for Eastern European artists ( my background).
With a high level idea, and zero ways to prove I could do it. Just a few phone numbers to call if there’s an opportunity. I started and LLC, created a simple free website. I get a phone call from an artist’s manager, who happened to look to produced a music video in LA.
Was that luck? A little - but had I not had the idea and created a sketch of how that would have worked I’d just not see the opportunity. Instead of that I confidently said: “You’re in luck. I have a company that does that.”
The very first video had a huge budget and having imagined in broad strokes I had enough confidence to pitch it and got hired.
All three angles are describing the same thing. You’re basically creating your own luck.
It just works. I’ve heard a version of this story from countless entrepreneurs, business owners, and artists.
Is there a common trap that ruins the win?
Yes: reading all the books, listening to all the podcasts, binging on all the hacks, and doing nothing.
Information without implementation does not lead to transformation.
Without picking a lane and doing the mundane, invisible-to-others hard work with no visible results to show for a while, all that is, is life-hacking porn.
I’ve been told for years I should write a book until I decided to do it. I’d never done it before, I was busy, tons of conflicting priorities in life.
My wife Deb leaned in because the topic was particularly burning in my mind. I said yes but had to carve out time where there was none.
So for 9 months I woke up at 5 am every morning with no exceptions and wrote for 2 hours.
You can get the book here, it’s a fun and easy read. The skills I developed for the book are opened up a new universe for me the YT channel and this newsletter are the fruit. With 10k subscribers in each platform.
But for the longest time, it was just doing the invisible, mundane work.
Is there one mindset that puts you over the top?
A clear sense of mission and higher purpose.
It’s the highest form of fuel. It keeps you going when you’re down. Keeps you humble when you’re up.
It gives you a drive, intensity, and hyper-focus that makes the top 1%. These are the people we all admire and are inspired by. They all have a missional mindset. They feel sharing what they have with the world is a moral responsibility.
This highest form of intense devotion to your purpose in life becomes a supernatural ability to get a download or vision. While it tends to come in a flash of genius, it’s usually the result of years of being tuned to a higher purpose that compounds slowly at first.
I recently watched a couple of hours of interviews with Adam Neumann, founder of WeWork. It’s not surprising he built a multibillion-dollar business. It was a classic download after three failed businesses, a spiritual practice, and integrating his natural passions, which were rooted in his origin story and love for community.
I am a Christian and believe all of us have a divine assignment, and our goal in life is to find what it is for this season of life and pursue it with abandon.
Going deep on purpose and mission is the only way to truly align your life with that in a way that will absolutely feel like luck, like you’re riding an invisible wave.
Every new thing I’ve started has felt like a mission for this season. In fact - the work we do in Xponential with people starts with looking for that deeper missional fuel.
If the connection between origin story and your purpose got your attention, watch this video where I unpack it in more detail.
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