Create Your Own Luck
The more opportunities you give yourself, the more chances you get to be “lucky”. Sometimes I’ll talk to people about our band and they’ll say, “You’re lucky you get to do what you love, your lucky you got signed to a record label, your lucky you have a booking agent that books your tours” and I’ll say, “It’s not about luck.”
I am very blessed with my friends and family who have supported me and have been a helping hand throughout the years. I am blessed to be able to have an ear for music. I am blessed to have a brain that lacks common sense most of the time, but can think deeply and creatively. But those blessings came with choices. I chose to be nice to people as often as possible, therefore it is that much easier to make friends. I chose to lock myself in my room throughout my teen years and therefore I learned to play music. I chose at a young age to try hard in school (mainly because that’s what everyone tells you to do), and therefore I have been able to slowly develop thinking analytically.
So luck and blessings come, but usually at the cost of effort, patience, persistance, discipline, and outgoingness. The best opportunities come when you do not expect them and when you are actually ready and able to accept them. Memorize that last sentence.
We got our booking agent, Ashley, by chatting with a rocker guy in a hot tub in Southern California. We asked if we could go on tour with him and he said to email his booking agent. We emailed her and asked if we could meet with her. Then we had coffee with her and played our music for her on acoustics in a Starbucks parking lot, and she decided to work with us. So we created this professional relationship with her by chatting with a dude in a hot tub. This happened because we were expecting it to happen and because our band was at a level that could have a booking agent.
SO… Find the direction you want to go in, and work toward it. You don’t have to chase Luck. If you are ready for it, Luck will find You. Just put in effort, patience, persistance, discipline, and be outgoing. Work hard and let life happen.
