Yita has stayed on his land for several days without digging potatoes. His neighbor Andy asked him why he didn't work. Ita said, "I don't have to worry about it. I am very lucky. Once, I was about to cut down some big trees when a hurricane blew them off. Another time I was about to burn the weeds in the field, and a flash of lightning burned them all. "

"Oh, you are so lucky. What are you doing now? " When Andy asked, Ita replied, "I'm waiting for the earthquake to turn my potatoes out of the soil."

Of course, this is just a joke, just like the fable of "waiting for him" in ancient China. The hero in these jokes obviously made two mistakes: one is that good luck often comes like rain, and the other is that good luck can come uninvited. If we want to succeed, we must never do what he did. We must understand the fact that luck doesn't always happen, it is created by you.

Of course, it takes a certain amount of luck for a person to start a business to create wealth and succeed, but luck is not the only and primary condition for creating wealth.

Many self-made millionaires will tell you that the increase of wealth requires economic risks, efforts, education, persistence and other conditions and factors. However, about one in eight millionaires believe that luck is a very important factor to explain their economic success. There is an interesting relationship between high net worth and the so-called luck of millionaires.

Only about 9% of high-income non-millionaires and about 9% of millionaires with net assets ranging from $6,543,800 to $2 million believe that luck can explain economic success. Among multi-millionaires, more than one-fifth (22%) think that luck is very important to explain their economic success, and two-fifths think that luck is very important.

If luck is the key to becoming a millionaire, then we should take a gamble. However, the luck mentioned by these millionaires is not the luck of casino patrons and lottery fans. Millionaires are not the best customers of the gambling industry-in the past 12 months, only a quarter of millionaires have been to casinos, and some of these people have attended business exhibitions or professional conferences in or near casinos.

Therefore, according to their own definition, millionaires believe that a different type of luck plays a certain role in explaining economic benefits. Those who believe in luck think, "The harder you work. The better the luck! "

This sentence was written by a rich man with a net worth of more than $25 million when filling out a questionnaire. For him and his companions, luck is related to uncontrollable factors such as climate, competition, credit crunch, changes in consumer goods income, and price collapse.

It is valuable to compare the views of self-employed multimillionaires with those of high-income lawyers and doctors. Among these professional types, most freelancers are skeptical about using luck to explain their success. They think this can only be partially proved. They study hard at school, get advanced certificates and go to law school or medical school. After that, they worked hard, chose the right major and invested wisely, thus becoming rich.

Get rid of unrealistic dreams and abandon the wrong understanding that creating wealth depends on luck.

Everyone knows how unrealistic the idea of "pie falling from the sky" is. However, there are some people in life who indulge in fantasy all day and dream of the Spring and Autumn Period, thinking that success will one day fall from the sky like a pie. Such people will never succeed, never. Because such people simply don't understand that the key to success lies in action.

There is an American girl named Sylvia. Her father is a famous plastic surgeon in Boston and her mother teaches in a famous university.

Her family has given her great help and support, and she has every chance to realize her dream.

Since college, she has always dreamed of becoming a TV presenter.

She thinks she has this talent, because whenever she gets along with others, even strangers are willing to get close to her and have a long talk with her.

She knows how to extract the truth from people. Her friends call her a "close personal psychologist".

She always said, "As long as someone is willing to give me a chance to be on TV, I believe I will succeed."

But what did she do to realize this ideal? In fact, nothing was done!

She is waiting for a miracle, hoping to become a TV host at once. Of course, this miracle will never come. Because when she was waiting for the miracle to come, the miracle was passing her by.

There is a middle-aged man who goes to church to pray once every two days, and the content of each prayer is almost the same.

"God, please remember my awe of you for many years, and let me win the lottery once! Amen. "

A few days later, he went to the church in frustration and knelt down and prayed, "God, why don't you let me win the lottery?" I am willing to serve you more humbly. Please let me win the lottery once! Amen. "

A few days later, he appeared in the church again and repeated his prayers. Over and over again, praying.

Finally, once, he knelt down and said, "My God, why didn't you listen to my prayer?" Let me win the lottery! Just once, let me solve all the difficulties, and I will dedicate my life to serve you wholeheartedly ... "

Just then, a grand and solemn voice came from the altar: "I have been listening to your prayers." But, at least, your brother should buy lottery tickets first! "

It can be seen that it is not enough to have dreams. If you want to succeed, you must have the determination to pursue your ideal to the end and act immediately!

Dream is the starting line of success, determination is the gunfire of starting, and action is like a runner's all-out sprint. Only by sticking to the last second can you win a successful championship.

Now, stop complaining, take action and take a closer look at whether there are opportunities around you.

Winners are people who are good at finding opportunities and taking immediate action.

Reality is this shore, ideal is the other shore, and action is a bridge over the river.

In life, people often do things in a planned way, and always feel that their ideas are not perfect and the time is not mature. As a result, everything was delayed and wasted. In fact, even the best new ideas will have defects. Even a very ordinary plan, if you are sure to carry it out and work hard, is much better than not starting at all. We should open the situation with actions. When the opportunity is ripe, it may never be, or once the opportunity is ripe, it can't be grasped at all.

The story of Zhou Yu's fire attack in Battle of Red Cliffs is a good example. The "chain strategy" has worked. Cao Cao tied all the boats together; Cao Cao was convinced that the "insurance plan" failed to surrender through the yellow cover, and the chance of fire attack was only because of the east wind. But it was the middle of winter, and the northwest wind was blowing on the river every day. When Zhou Yu realized that one of the most critical external conditions in the coup was missing, he immediately rushed to his heart and turned his back. Later, it was said that Zhuge Liang borrowed the east wind and finally succeeded in the fire attack plan. But if Zhou Yu just waits for the east wind to blow before preparing the "chain plan" and "risk plan", I'm afraid the opportunity will never come back.

Success is achieved through actions rather than dreams. When we are ready to move towards the goal, the next key is to start action.

People who always uphold the belief of success are also people who constantly try by various means in practical actions.

The most important thing to realize the belief of success is action.

-Quoted from Yanbian People's Publishing House "Feeling Wealth"