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Sunday, May 08, 2011

Luck.

Think about that for one second. People who get rich... or attract

stunning women... or who are in great shape are that way because
they're... lucky. Not because they invested an amazing amount of
time, energy, and effort to learn a skill, but because they somehow
just got lucky.

It is, of course, an asinine view of the world, but that's the way
most people think. Much easier to blame someone else's success on
"luck" tacitly excusing their own failure as simply being "unlucky."

Consider this other gem of a phrase: "less fortunate." It applies
to people who are, obviously not rich, again carrying through the
logic that those who are not are somehow "unlucky."

The attitude is that success has nothing to do with paying the
price to create, design, and implement the life that you really
desire, that instead the best way to succeed is to sit around and
just wait to somehow "get lucky."

Ben Kenobi said it best in Star Wars: "in my experience, there's
no such thing as luck." And you know what? I agree with Obi
Wan--in my experience there is no such thing as luck.

You see, I've never had any luck with women. Or in business. Or
with fitness. Heck, if you look at my track record, you might say
I am notoriously unlucky.

But, despite my lack of luck, I'm viewed as a pretty successful guy
in all three areas, because I know a secret few people really ever
want to embrace: everything you want out of life can be gotten by
learning a skill.

That's it. It really is that simple. Money-getting is a skill.
Attraction is a skill. Fitness is a skill. If you want to excel
in all of them, all you have to do is learn the skill--and you
should.

Let the losers sit around wasting their time waiting for Lady Luck
to show up--women like men with skills, and you'll be shocked when
she shows up on your doorstep, anxious to meet you because you paid
the price to learn a skill... and now the time has come for your
reward.