Fatalistic Attitude
A
fatalistic attitude prevents people from accepting responsibility for their position
in life. They attribute success and failure to luck. They resign themselves to
their fate. They believe and accept the predestined future written in their
horoscope or stars, that regardless of their effort whatever has to happen will
happen. Hence they never put in any effort and complacency becomes a way of
life. They wait for things to happen rather than make them happen. Success is a
matter of luck, ask any failure.
Weak-minded people fall easy prey to
fortune-tellers, horoscopes and self-proclaimed God's men who are sometimes
conmen. They become superstitious and ritualistic. Shallow people believe in
luck. People with strength and determination believe in cause and effect. (Some
people consider a rabbit's foot lucky; but it wasn't lucky for the rabbit, was
it?)
Some
People Think They are Just Unlucky This breeds a fatalistic attitude. People
who get involved halfheartedly say things like:
- "I will give it a try";
- "I will see if it works";
- "I will give it a shot";
- "I have nothing to lose";
- "I haven't put much into it anyway."
These
people guarantee failure because they get into a project with no dedication or
determination. They lack courage, commitment and confidence. They are starting
with complacence and call themselves unlucky.
Effort Does it
- A man bought a racehorse and put him in a barn with a big sign, "The fastest horse in the world." The owner didn't exercise the horse nor train it to keep it in good shape. He entered the horse in a race and it came last. The owner quickly changed the sign to "The fastest world for the horse." By inaction or not doing what should be done, people fail and they blame luck.
Life
without vision, courage and depth is simply a blind experience. Small, lazy,
and weak minds always take the easiest way, the path of least resistance.
Athletes train 15 years for 15 seconds of performance. Ask them if they got
lucky. Ask an athlete how he feels after a good workout. He will tell you that
he feels spent. If he doesn't feel that way, it means he hasn't worked out to
his maximum ability.
Losers think life is unfair. They think only of their bad
breaks. They don't consider that the person
who is prepared and playing well still got the same bad breaks but overcame
them. That is the difference. The winner's threshold for tolerating pain becomes higher
because in the end he is not training so much for the game but for his
character.
LUCK FAVORS THOSE WHO HELP THEMSELVES
- A flood was threatening a small town and everyone was leaving for safety except one man who said, "God will save me. I have faith." As the water level rose a jeep came to rescue him, the man refused, saying "God will save me. I have faith." As the water level rose further, he went up to the second story, and a boat came to help him. Again he refused to go, Belying, "God will save me. I have faith." The water kept rising and the man climbed on to the roof. A helicopter came to rescue him, but he said, "God will save me. I have faith." Well, finally he drowned. When he reached his Maker he angrily questioned, "I had complete faith in you. Why did you ignore my prayers and let me drown?" The Lord replied, "Who do you think sent you the jeep, the boat, and the helicopter?"
Luck
Shines on the Deserving
Alexander Graham Bell was desperately trying to invent
a hearing aid for his partially deaf wife. He failed at inventing a hearing aid
but in the process discovered the principles of the telephone. You wouldn't
call someone like that lucky, would you?
Good luck is when opportunity meets
preparation. Without effort and preparation, lucky coincidences don't happen.
LUCK
He worked by day
And toiled by night.
He gave up play
And some delight.
Dry
books he read,
New things to learn.
And forged ahead,
Success to earn.
He
plodded on with
Faith and pluck;
And when he won,
Men called it luck.
--Anonymous
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