I don’t believe in luck. Good things and bad things and neutral things come at us all the time. It’s our choice on how we interpret these things and how we respond. What we choose to see. What we choose to react to.
My husband is a good example. He is a lucky guy. It’s how he responds to his universe that makes him that way. He takes a ‘wait and see’ approach and then responds only to the things that are positive. He doesn’t do it consciously (perhaps that’s why it looks as if he’s so effortlessly lucky).
Since homeschoolers have more flexibility and choice in their lives (both kids and parents), do we have a better chance of being lucky? Because we can choose to?
J.D. Roth over at ZenHabits would likely agree. If you look at his list of how to attain good luck, it’s pretty darn close to the lists I’ve made here about how to have a more successful homeschooling life.
One of my many favorites on his list:
4. Wake up — before your dreams come true. When I was a boy, I loved computers. Computer programmers, like those in WarGames and Real Genius, were my heroes. But when I finally got a chance to program computers, it wasn’t anything like I had imagined it. It was drudgery. I gave up my dream and moved on to something else. Pursue goals, but be sure to reassess your progress and your priorities at regular intervals to prevent yourself from becoming trapped in a reality that is nothing like your dreams.
As homeschoolers, we can pursue our dreams as soon as we have them. And since we have endless time, we can determine quickly what works and what doesn’t. Homeschoolers can have many, many dreams. We aren’t limited to the one dream we have all of our lives “when we’re finally done with school”. We can do what our dreams are now. And find out, for real, if our dreams are what we really want to do. (Kids and parents too, BTW.)
This is just one of the many parallels I can draw form his list. I encourage you to read it. And create more luck in your life, because you are free to do so.
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