Hard Work; The Key To Attracting Luck.

Just like Thomas Jefferson, I believe in luck because I have experienced it a few times but it doesn't just come without some level of hard work involved. With my little experience in life, I have come to understand that there is a certain level of hard work that attracts luck and only a few times have luck come by chance.

Whenever I see someone praying for luck without putting in any form of effort, I just laugh because we live in a world where even hard work doesn't guarantee success anymore not to speak of getting lucky when you have done anything to attract the luck.

Although I have heard stories of people finding luck without putting in any form of hard work and cases like this happen once in a blue moon. There are another set of people who we think are just lucky but if you look deeply, they have worked hard before luck came into the picture.

Someone was talking about one of the Nigeria billionaires and claimed that the man was lucky because he started everything he has today with generational wealth but I don't see it as luck and to prove myself right, I checked his biography and saw the level of hard work he had put in place before opportunity came knocking at his door. There are lots of people whose hard work is unknown to us but when luck comes their way, we notice it immediately.

I have shared the story of how challenging it was for me to get a job back then, my eyes saw shege on the streets of Lagos but all that are testimonies today. We all should be grateful to God that we don't look like what we have been through.

Immediately I was considered a marketing staff after working for over a year as a contract staff, I was excited. I and the other applicants who got the job were given a free zone to work, it's the company's way of knowing your strength in different markets.

We all set out on that Monday morning and at the end of the day, I sold all the products I went out with. The same thing happened the next day and for two weeks, I was breaking and setting my record. I got the Area sales manager's attention and he wanted to meet me. We had a chat and he said, you should become a supervisor so that you can train more people on how to make sales like you do.

I didn't see that happening anytime soon because according to the company tradition, a marketing staff must have used at least a year before being considered for the role of a supervisor except you are employed particularly for that position. The promotion made me famous and a lot of people said to my face that I was lucky.

Yes, I was lucky but the luck didn't just jump on me. While I was working as a contract staff, one of my jobs was surveying markets and I did the job wholeheartedly. Physical survey is quite challenging especially when dealing with market women but I found my way around them and built a good relationship with them.

Imagine helping them display the company's product every morning, amending product stands with my money, pushing for the change of damaged products, calling to check on them and others. The majority of these things aren't my duties but I knew it was the right thing to do and didn't hesitate to do them. They confided in me more than the staff operating in those markets and when I became a staff, these women were happy. They chose to buy from me and it helped me a lot. I stopped working there in 2021 and it would interest you to know that whenever I meet these women in the market, they still tell me their challenges and I pass the message to people who I know in the system.

A lot of people didn't see my hard work and would believe that I was just lucky but to me, I know that my hard work attracted luck to me. I think hard work is underrated while luck is overrated and without hard work, luck can barely find us.

I hope a lot of people learn to understand waiting for luck without hard work is like waiting for a child to walk immediately after birth and like I mentioned earlier, it happens but not often. Why wait for luck to happen by chance when we can attract it with hard work even though it is not certain?

It wouldn't make sense for the luck to come and not get hardwork as a foundation to attach itself to.

I hope your Wednesday started pretty well, mine did and I pray it ends well. Thanks for reading, cheers.