Trust the lord and tie up your camel
By Mr.Pancake on Saturday, 4 of July , 2009 at 9:56 am
How to be “Lucky”
The awful thing about claiming that somebody is “Lucky” is that it dismisses responsibility. You can’t make luck happened, you just have to wait for it to strike unexpectedly. Sometimes that is right and random events do happen to help or hinder our lives for unknown reasons. However, there are other times when what we call “Luck” is much more under our control.
Opportunity of some sort is always around, so you can see luck as our willingness to be open to a given opportunity.
There is an Eastern saying “Trust the lord and tie up your camel”. For me that is what luck is all about. It underlines the varying elements of success: You need to trust that the universe, life, God or Allah – whatever you choose to call it will support you. All you have to do is to be willing and to take action. You have to put your energy into the success. Remember nobody ever won a race they did not enter.
I’m sure you may have heard this many times before: “Trust the lord and tie up your camel”. We can’t just walk around and not take precautions in life and say “I trust in God, so I’ll be alright”. You can’t just leave the keys in your car and go in the store and just think that because you trust in God that the car is going to be there when you get back. You might trust in God, but there are a lot of people out there that don’t believe in God and your car may just be gone.
To reach the point where other people claim you have been “Lucky” will normally require you to move from one end of the other of the life alignment curve. You will have to tie up our camel like:
- Review Opportunities
- Explore Implications
- Ask for Help
- Experiment with a New Style
- Get a New Job
- Move to a New Country
Lucky people take responsibility for what happens to them and how they respond to it, so life moves with them. Call it luck if you have to, just remember that you create your own luck by accepting the part you have to play.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it and do it. Boldness have genius, power and imagination in it.
