Africa-Press – Lesotho. Often, achievers are put on a Luck Pedestal and the rest of the “ordinary” beings are relegated to a very short, nasty, and brutishly unlucky existence.
How many times have you heard, “Some people are luckier than others”, or “I have to be the unluckiest moron that ever walked this doomed planet”? This kind of negative dialogue is severely
victimizing, disempowering and holds many people back. What is the point of trying if some invisible, all-powerful, vindictive force called Luck is determined to make our existence here a misery? The more these beliefs are
entrenched in our psyches, the unluckier we shall be. Collectively, the statements we utter about our nation’s-bad-luck further serve to entrench it. Yes, there are racial, gender and
other forms of discrimination, injustices, and heart-breaking poverty all around us. I am not one to trivialize the socio-economic realities of the world
we live in and the collective efforts being made to address these challenges. However, these harsh realities, which have so shaped the human experience over
millennia, will not magically disappear anytime soon, so what then? A few years ago, a very enterprising young man reached out to me via the Facebook Higher Self page.
Gabasheane is a 20-year-old Electronics and Electrical Engineering student who has achieved more in his two decades on Mother Earth than most people do in a lifetime.
He grew up in a village in Quthing. By the age of 15 he was already inventing scientific procedures for research in pharmaceuticals and consistently winning
medals in the National Science Fair. Our untiring Gabasheane also mentors his peers in start-up entrepreneurship and runs sessions to help demystify some of
the legal requirements such as the taxation and business registration systems. Gabasheane owns a company that records Mathematics tutorials on video and distributes them to high schools and technicians who did not do High School Maths.
For the record, Gabasheane is not my
client. I subsequently got news that he had received an award for Best Exhibitor in Youth Projects at a national entrepreneurship awards ceremony hosted by the Ministries of Small Business
Development and Sports, Gender and Youth, and Recreation. With Gabasheane’s permission, here is a transcript of our conversation around luck: Gabasheane: Hello Mme, just got an
award. The event was yesterday at the Convention Centre. MN: Oh wow, this is wonderful abuti, you thoroughly deserve it. Well done! Gabasheane: I believe I was lucky, and
I have very intelligent mentors and even more so, I am blessed with an unending desire to learn new things, always willing to learn. MN: Sometimes I find that what we
call “luck” is actually something deeper than that. When you continuously seek, you shall truly find, and doors will literally keep opening for you. A famous
person once said, “The harder I work, the luckier I get. ” I will look up the exact quote and the person who said it just now. That, “unending desire to do
and learn new things, always willing to learn” is the source of your ‘luck’ abuti. Gabasheane: I see now, it makes more sense than before. Please forward those quotes Mme.
MN: “The more I practice, the luckier I get” was coined by Gary Player, the world famous South African golfer and he was certainly “lucky” throughout his career.
Gary Player has long been known as one of the hardest working professionals in the game. American film producer, Samuel Goldwyn is quoted as saying something similar, “The harder I work, the
luckier I get” and former U. S. President, Thomas Jefferson is believed to have said, “I am a great believer in luck, and I find that the harder I work, the
more I have of it. ” Gabasheane then sent me an excited audio message about how liberating he was finding these quotes and proceeded to search for and find another quote on luck within that hour.
His quote, from a video clip, went like this, “Luck is an accumulation of superior effort and focused execution. ” My conversation with Gabasheane ended on a happy and inspiring note not long after
that. The quote from Gabasheane’s video clip is actually from Gary Whitehill who further says, “Your mental capacity for many things is also a factor,
including your outlook on life, both personally and professionally. For instance, without keeping your inner critic in check, it will invariably eat away at you.
Furthermore, luck is a sum of many disparate, usually-not-thought-of-as-connected, parts. This would include not just how smart you are, but also your capacity to
plan efficiently and effectively. Taking it a step further, understand how to leverage to create exponential value and the importance of viewing the world through
an 80/20 lens. ” Your responsibility as an individual is to build an interior life that transcends myths and limitations so that you can intentionally create your own spectacular luck. You are certainly not ordinary and there is unlimited celestial fire burning inside you. Good luck dearest!
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