PB045: 7 Habits of Lucky Entrepreneurs

Note: you can listen to this episode above or load it up in iTunes. How to Develop the 7 Habits of Lucky Entrepreneurs Today's episode is all about how to increase the chances of lucky things happening to you. Some people believe luck is random or based on personality, but I believe luck is a choice. You can choose to increase the chances of lucky things happening to you by creating conscious habits. Today I share the habits you can choose to develop to grow your own luck as a blogger and entrepreneur.   In This Episode You can listen to today's episode above or in iTunes or Stitcher (where we'd also LOVE to get your reviews on those platforms if you have a moment). In today's episode: How one email changed the trajectory of my life How to be in the right place at the right time How to gather information and knowledge to increase your luck How lucky entrepreneurs respond to problems How lucky entrepreneurs practice curiosity How to set aside time to watch for sparks that you can fan into big flames of success How to create and develop things instead of spending all your time reacting How to make small changes today that will take you to a different place in the long run, helping you to evolve Further Reading and Resources for the Habits of Lucky Entrepreneurs The 2 Questions to Ask Yourself Every Day: What gave me energy today? What did I do today that seemed to give other people energy? My ideal weekly schedule that I created to remind myself to regularly focus on cultivating the habits of lucky entrepreneurs (note: this is an updated version from one I shared a few episodes ago): Full Transcript Expand to view full transcript Compress to smaller transcript view Hi there. My name is Darren Rowse and welcome to the ProBlogger Podcast episode 45 where today, I'm going to talk a little bit about how to get lucky. No, not quite luck. You might be thinking I want to talk about getting lucky in business as an online entrepreneur or as a blogger. I'm going to tell a little bit of my story of luck in my journey but give you also seven tips to increase the chances of lucky things happening in your own journey as a blogger. You can find today's show notes at problogger.com/podcast/45. Have you ever been in the right place at the right time? I certainly have been, numerous times along that way in my own blogging, right back at the first moment when I first discovered the first blog. I did have a little bit of luck. I was in the right place at the right time. It was a rainy afternoon in November 2002. A Friday afternoon, if I remember correctly, and I was sitting at my computer at one of the part-time jobs that I was doing at the time. A voice came out of my computer. It was a bit of an embarrassing voice, now that I think about it. It said, "Master, you've got mail." I was a lot younger back then and a bit more immature. I’m not sure why I installed that little plugin.  But I went and checked my Hotmail account and there was an email from a good friend of mine, Steve. It was the kind of email that I normally would've probably passed over and not paid a whole heap of attention to because it only had four words in it. It was one of those emails where someone sends you a link and you never quite know what you can end up on when you click those links. The email basically said these four words, "Check out this blog."  I never heard the word blog before. It was 2002 and I wasn't familiar with that term, so it made me a little bit curious. I clicked the link and I ended up on this blog called tallskinnykiwi.com. Now, the blog itself, I was interested in. To cut the long story short, it was this medium of blogging that really grabbed my attention on that day. To cut that long story short, 3½-year long story short, I started a blog that day. In doing so,