Benefiting at work from Brain Based Insights

My good friend Gl, over at What Would dad Say?  left a terrific story at my original blog on the topic of luck and coincidence …  When Coincidence Comes we Learn More about Ourselves this morning. Gl spoke for many of us when he said:  “I have often wondered how some people seem to get lucky and others do not.
Quick story.”

That’s why his story needs to be shared here!

“We have family friends, the Norbys, who have three boys, all in their 30's now. Their youngest son, Mark, was the typical suburban kid, played high school football, was a popular kid around 'the lake.'

So, Mark surprises us all by going way off to the University of Texas . His likeable demeanor get him to be president of the Longhorn Guys, the young men who run the steer around the stadium at football games, apparently a big deal.

Anyway, he graduates and like a young kids, doesn't know really what he wants to do. So, he gets a job in working for a freight forwarder, likes it but decides after a year or two, to quit. But, then he decides to walk home! From ! Takes him a year...arrives home, is thinking about seminary, waiting tables meandering around really, when his college roommate calls him, "Mark," he says," since you are between jobs why don't you come out here to Hollywood and work with me? They think I am going to make it in the movies, and I need a stunt double."

Now, Mark Norby is Matthew McConaughy's stunt double, is doing coordinating type work … and having a great time, job and life. It seems like every time we tell Mark's story, it ALWAYS happens someone will then say..."that's nothing, my next door neighbor's niece is Madonna's hair dresser."

I too am still asking GL’s question … “So...is this all luck, opportunity, or what?” Care to weigh in on this one and add your story to GL’s?

He asked the question I’d like to ask you and me … “How can we wire ourselves to be able to react to these chances that come up that truly are life changing events?” What do you think?