Here are some tips to improve your luck
(excerpt from Is Effort a Myth by Seth Godin):
1. Delete 120 minutes a day of 'spare time'
from your life. This can include TV, reading
the newspaper, commuting, wasting time in
social networks and meetings. Up to you.
2. Spend the 120 minutes doing this instead:
- Exercise for thirty minutes.
- Read relevant non-fiction (trade magazines,
- journals, business books, blogs, etc.)
- Send three thank you notes.
- Learn new digital techniques (spreadsheet
- macros, Firefox shortcuts, productivity tools,
- graphic design, html coding)
- Volunteer.
- Blog for five minutes about something
- you learned.
- Give a speech once a month
- about something you don't currently
- know a lot about.
3. Spend at least one weekend day doing
absolutely nothing but being with people you
love.
4. Only spend money, for one year, on things
you absolutely need to get by. Save the rest,
relentlessly.
If you somehow pulled this off, then six months
from now, you would be the fittest, best rested,
most intelligent, best funded and motivated person
in your office or your field.
You would know how to do things other people
don't, you'd have a wider network and you'd be
more focused.
It's entirely possible that this won't be sufficient,
and you will continue to need better luck. But it's
a lot more likely you'll get lucky, I bet.
I think Seth makes a good point. What do you think?
Stay positive. Don't listen to too much NPR or
watch too much news right now. Stock prices
might be falling but the sky is not. Focus on what
you can do something about instead of what you
can't control.
Dr. John
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