I believe you make your own luck. My motto is 'It's always a mistake not to go.'
Interpretation
Luck is not merely chance; it is created through action and opportunity.
In this quote, Tom Brokaw emphasizes the idea that individuals have the power to shape their own circumstances and outcomes by taking initiative and pursuing opportunities. Believing in personal agency, he suggests that avoiding opportunities is a significant error, as every chance taken can lead to personal growth and success.
In practice
During a motivational speech at a business seminar.
The WWII generation shares so many common values: duty, honor, country, personal responsibility and the marriage vow " For better or for worse--it was the last generation in which, broadly speaking, marriage was a commitment and divorce was not an option
Your grandparents came of age in the Great Depression, when everyday life was about deprivation and sacrifice, when the economic conditions of the time were so grave and so unrelenting it would have been easy enough for the American dream to fade away.
While Pickstown may not be what it once was, it still is framed by the natural beauty of the ancient river, the sweep of the Great Plains, and the long, unbroken shoreline of the lake behind the dam. It gave me a 19th-century childhood in a modern mid-20th-century town, and for that I will always be grateful.
I am simply the most conspicuous part of a large, thoroughly dedicated and professional staff that extends from just behind these cameras, across this country and around the world, in too many instances, in places of grave danger and personal hardship. They're family to me.
I had good care going. I had Meredith and the family. And I didn't want to become the object of some kind of pity, most of all. I didn't want to show up on the Internet, 'Tom Brokaw has cancer.'
Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away.
Replace your pursuit of success with the pursuit of contribution.
I am fortunate: my parents told me the world was my oyster, when they could have said I wouldn't make it for a lot of reasons - rural, girl, small African country. So, no regrets.
The key to forming good habits is to make them part of your 'rituals.' I have a morning ritual, afternoon ritual, and Sunday ritual. It's one way to bundle good habits into regular times that you set aside to prepare yourself for the life you want. Rituals help you form habits.
The greatest achievement was, at first, and for a time, but a dream.
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
To me, success is choice and opportunity.
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