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Preparedness + Opportunity = Luck
August 22, 2022
I once read that "luck is simply preparedness meeting opportunity." I love this definition because it resonates deep within me.
Luck or Faith
Whether you are a person with strong convictions regarding faith or luck, I believe the two look remarkably similar when viewed through a simple equation:
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Luck/Faith = Preparedness + Opportunity
Overnight Success
When people say someone is "lucky," they tend to imply that something completely random happened; that a person simply found themselves in the right place at the right time, without effort or intention. Like the rolling of dice, it just happened.
A common example is the so-called “overnight success” of a performer.
Case in point: when a musician gets “discovered,” people often call it luck. But anyone who has “made it” will usually argue otherwise. They’ll tell you they worked relentlessly for years, and when opportunity finally appeared, they were able to “seize the moment” because they had been preparing for it their entire lives.
A musician never becomes an overnight success without first learning their instrument, writing songs, and putting in thousands of hours of practice. Without preparedness, every opportunity, no matter how perfect, would be lost simply because the skill set wasn’t there to support it.
The Truth
So, if preparedness is our responsibility as one component of the formula for luck or faith, how do we access the opportunity portion of the equation?
I believe the Truth is that opportunity is not ours to create, control or manage. It is the part of the process that unfolds beyond our will, our timelines and our expectations.
Opportunity arrives in its own season, often in ways we could never have orchestrated ourselves. While preparedness is the work of our hands, opportunity is the work of Truth, aligning the right moment, the right people and the right environment so that our preparation has somewhere to land.
My Journey
I've discovered that it's vital to differentiate between what is my responsibility and what belongs to Truth, and to not confuse the two.
I cannot accomplish Truth's part, and Truth cannot accomplish mine. It's a partnership.
Only I can prepare for the opportunity Truth has prepared for me.
I prepare and Truth prepares, but we each prepare something different: I prepare myself, and Truth prepares the opportunity.
If I choose to trust Truth and wait for what it has created for me, while continuing to prepare for its arrival, I won't be disappointed.
However, if during the preparation I create an expectation around an opportunity that is not mine, I recognize I will be disappointed and will likely stop preparing for the real opportunity that is mine.
Knowing this means my expectations are what need to be adjusted, for disappointment is proof I engaged in something that wasn't meant for me.
So I circle back, release the opportunity I thought I needed, and return my attention to the responsibility that was mine: to prepare for the opportunity, not create it.
My Goal
My goal, therefore, is not to predict the opportunity, manufacture it or decide what it should look like.
It is to have faith and keep preparing, for as long as it takes, until the opportunity that matches my preparedness arrives.
Perhaps, in the end, that is what it truly means to be “lucky.”
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by Bonnie Penner
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