How To Find Luck

“Try to be helpful to others - and if you can’t do that, at least don’t harm them.”
Geshe Dawa, Tibetan monk.

What if luck was a product of kind-heartedness?

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Years ago, I lived near Bondi Beach, in a crumbling building with concrete cancer (no kidding) and a brief glimpse of the sea. Those days I was the Editor and Publisher of DIRECTION Journal and often frequented the closest post office to send my journal to subscribers.

My local post office wasn’t a post office at all - it was an annexe, a miniature cutaway version of the main post office in the shopping precinct up the hill.

This annexe was run by one man - I have forgotten his name - who was the sweetest person on earth. Everyone said so. Customers often remarked to each other, while waiting in line, that he was one of the nicest people on earth. A few times people told me - as I said myself:

“I make an extra effort to come here because I like him so much.” Even the atmosphere in the shop was friendly and happy. How did he do it? It was hard to figure out.

Anyway, I moved away - years passed - and one day, I was in the area and went to find out how the derelict little post office was going…

I was shocked.

The whole area was transformed. 

And yes, my kind-hearted Postie was still there, along with two assistants and a double-sized post office! The annexe had spead into one of the closed shops next door! Not only that, the whole area was buzzing. There were two - TWO! - cafes that had opened up, and both were pretty full on the day I visited.

When I saw all that, I concluded:

You manufacture luck.

At the Congress, I will be offering my ATSuccess 12-Step Program, but the hidden part of success lies much deeper than marketing strategies and the latest social media methods. It starts with serving others - a patient, kind-hearted wish to be helpful to others. And offering this consistently, intelligently and patiently over a long period of time.

The sweetest kind of success doesn’t mean narcissistically obsessing about how you can get ahead; it means considering others and deciding how you might best help them. 

Good luck - because you can find it!