Last Saturday my wife was busy in the kitchen preparing our evening meal when she realised that we did not have some of the ingredients we needed so I put some trainers and ran to the shop so that i can come back to the football match I was watching. I got the things we needed and I went to check out. As I went to the check out looking for quick getaway I realised that that was not going to happen because I had ten people in front of me. I did what I do every time I find myself surrounded by a lot of people, I just started watching everyone and very quickly I realised that every person who went to the checkout was buying lottery ticket, by the time I got to the check out, every single person in front of me had bought a ticket. When I got to the checkout the lady behind the till said you are the only person who has come in here and does not want to be successful. I smiled and I just paid my bill and said maybe.
The truth is, I had been awake since 5am that morning, I had done a radio broadcast on our local radio station, I had come home and I worked on improving my speaking and that morning I had a phone call inviting me to speak the following afternoon and I had spent that afternoon preparing my speech. The statement that that I did not want to be successful I was absolutely false. I want to be successful I am not just hoping for lady luck to smile at me, I am going out every day deliberately creating the life that I want. You can either hope that things will change or you can go out there and create the change that you want.