How to get really “lucky”

5 years ago I took a trip on whim to Park City, Utah. It was for a “gym owners meet up” …. I didn’t own a gym. I was nervous as hell. Some of these people had owned gyms longer than I’d even been working out! I almost didn’t talk to anyone the whole first day. Until I met Chris Cooper- my first mentor. I decided for the rest of the weekend I was going to introduce myself to as many people as possible. I still see and talk to many of those people to this day.

Ever since then, the right things just seem to drop into my lap at the right moments in life. The building that Degree is in “just happened” to come up for sale right at the time I was looking to start this “gym thing for real”. Coach Kelly dropped into the first nutrition challenge I hosted in my garage, and a year a half later become a coach at Degree (with a little encouragement), Coach James lives across the street from the gym and was one of the first people to register for our Founders Club.

Now I seek out and continue to inject myself into these uncomfortable, terrifying, sweaty- palm (and arm pit) situations. I try things that I’m not sure will work, I invest money in places that I’m not 100% sure if it will pay off or not. I hardly ever play it safe. I always introduce myself first. But that’s being an entrepreneur, isn’t it? I have a feeling that being a parent is similar. You have no idea what this will bring you, but you are excited at the opportunity to try and grow and maybe even fail.

So how do you get “lucky” in life?

You don’t get to where you want by expecting things or waiting for opportunity. You create the opportunity you want- and sometimes, just sometimes, you get really lucky.

Some people believe in fate or luck, I believe in driving the car. I believe in earning the fuel.