I would consider myself lucky - however I also subscribe to my fathers maxim "I will get myself ready and then my opportunity will come" its all about getting your ducks lined up and seizing the opportunity.
However one of the phrases I hate is "oh you are so lucky with your location blah blah " this business didn't fall on me! we made a smart business decision - did the research and worked bloody hard!.
That's true. I think other people, especially guests just like thinking of you as lucky...it's easier to do business with someone you think just happened into a situation, rather than someone who is savvy...then (gulp) they might be savvy in selling of their rooms to you.
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People who want to do what we do think we're lucky. They think there was a grand plan or that this fell into our laps.
Even when they ask and we tell them the back story they still think we're lucky we could move away from where we lived and had the money to do this.
It's 'lucky' to lose a 6 figure job with bennies? It's lucky to have my kids all across the country so visiting them requires advance planning? None of that was luck, unless bad luck counts. ;-)
I took a year off work to finish my degree. I kept hearing how lucky I was to be able to do that. So many people thought 'someone' was paying all my bills rather than realizing I'd spent the previous year working every extra shift I could get to save the money to take a year off.
DH and I sent 3 kids to college in the same year. We didn't borrow a dime. Luck had nothing to do with it.
Funny thing is, I used to believe it WAS luck. Now I know better. Of course bad stuff happens. Stuff we have no control over. It's how we handle it that shows what kind of 'luck' we have.
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