143achievement. In his autobiography, They Call Me Coach,
he mentions an element vital to creating each day.
“You cannot live a perfect day,” he said, “without
doing something for someone who will never be able to
repay you.”
I agree with that. But there’s a way to make sure
you can’t be repaid—and that’s doing something for
someone who won’t even know who did it.
This gets into a theory I’ve had all my life, that you
can create luck in your life. Not from the idea that luck
is needed for success, because it isn’t. But from the idea
that luck can be a welcome addition to your life.
You can create luck for yourself by creating it for
someone else. If you know about someone who is hurt-
ing financially, and you arrange for a few hundred dol-
lars to arrive at their home, and they don’t even know
who you are, then you’ve made them lucky. By making
someone lucky, something will then happen in your own
life that also feels like pure luck. (I can’t explain why
this happens, and I have no scientific basis for it, so all
I can say is try it a few times and see if you aren’t as
startled as I have been at the results...it doesn’t have to
be money, either. We have a lot of other things to give,
always.)
Whenyou get lucky, you’ll get more motivated, be-
cause you feel like the universe is more on your side.
Experiment with this a little. Don’t be imprisoned by
cynicism posing as rationality on this subject. See what
happens to you when you make other people get lucky.
67. Play the circle game
If you use my four-minute, four-circle, goal-setting
system described earlier you can be the creator of your
universe.
Play the circle game