How to Overcome the Great Delusions of Your Success

the great delusions of successDo you believe that to succeed you just have to be lucky, Or perhaps you believe it’s all about your own hard work? No, then perhaps you think it’s down to having the right connections. After all, the saying goes, it’s now what you know, it’s who you know.

“Luck” hints to us that all good things are the result of chance. Some people are lucky, some aren’t.  Or so the conventional thinking goes.

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Happy St Patrick’s Day

It’s my second favourite day of the year!

Because I shall be celebrating my birthday and St Paddy’s Day in Phuket, Thailand whilst you all slave away, I thought it only right that I give you a present this year.

So, for this weekend, 16th and 17th March 2013 – from midnight PST Saturday (around 4pm Saturday SGT) till 23:59 PST on Sunday 17th (around 4pm Monday 18th SGT), you can download the Kindle version of my hot new leadership book from the Amazon store for free. I’d gift wrap it too but it’s kinda hard to wrap a digital file 😉

Go straight here, to get “What’s Better Today? How to Grow and Learn into the Leader You Can Be, now. Remember, there will be no charge between the hours above. And for those of you in Asia, when the site tells you that it is not available in your region… I have no idea why… just change your region to US and you’ll be able to download it.

No Kindle? Then get yourself the Kindle app or, you can get it on Kobo (not free, sorry) you can order now.

Prefer paper? Well, be patient, around mid-April, Penguin will be publishing my book (I know I am so blessed) and it will be available in all good bookstores.

Now’s your chance to give me a birthday treat… aha the catch… download my book, tell your friends and get them to download the book and let’s see if we can knock that Dr John. C Maxwell off the top of the Leadership Bestseller list, if only for a week 🙂

Earn your Luck

Happy St Patrick's Day!Do you believe that to succeed you just have to be lucky?

In honour of my second favourite day of the year, St. Patrick’s Day, I thought I’d share some thoughts on being lucky. “Luck” hints to us that all good things are the result of chance. Some people are lucky, some aren’t.  Or so the conventional thinking goes.

But the truth is, fortune isn’t found in a four leaf clover or at the end of a rainbow. Good luck follows hard work. It may seem that the people who get “all the breaks” do so effortlessly, but when you look deeper, you will find effort, persistence, and determination.

In other words, “lucky” people reap opportunities because they’ve worked hard to get where they are, not because circumstances have magically lined up to give them a smooth ride.

So often, “lucky breaks” in life have actually come about because you have worked diligently, and often unglamorously, to achieve your goals. In other words, good luck doesn’t come to you… you must go to it. And that’s why the key to being lucky isn’t chance. It’s good, old fashioned, roll-up-your-sleeves-and-make-it-happen work.

Be greatly blessed, highly favoured, and if you insist, be lucky!
Happy St Patrick’s Day!
John