« Hey Stupid! It's a $13 Trillion Economy | Main | Benford's Law »
Making Your Own Luck
How is it possible to make your own luck? Making you own luck sounds almost agnostic. Isn't it only that someone is either lucky or unlucky? How can someone help themselves with their own good fortune? Let me explain.
I think we can all agree that Las Vegas has an edge on making its own luck. The odds in that town favor the house. They (and other gambling organizations) created the games that people play. Often, people pay the casinos in the end.
You see when you are in a game of chance; you can win or lose every day, week or month. It is good if you are winning. You wish it wouldn't stop, but it will. Conversely, if you are losing continuously, you wish it would stop and by the same law, it will.
Doesn't construction have a chance of failure and a chance of success? Certainly, it does. There are no guarantees of winning or making a fortune in contracting. Interestingly, you are only guaranteed of losing if you don't work smarter. The business is that competitive (and risky)
Luck has a lot to do with hard work and honest dealing. It certainly improves your chances against your lesser competitors. Sadly, there will be times that you will wonder what is going wrong with the world.
For the rest of the article read McGraw Hil's new book, Managing a Construction Firm on Just 24 Hours a Day by Matt Stevens
Matt Stevens is a management advisor who works only with construction contractors. See over 170 best practices in his new book "Managing a Construction Firm on Just 24 Hours a Day" is published by McGraw-Hill. Matt can be reached at mstevens@stevensci.com">mstevens@stevensci.com.
Posted by Matt Stevens at March 22, 2008 10:31 PM