You may have heard this expression from someone perceived as "lucky"., "I was in the right place at the right time."

However, there is something missing from that phrase.

You need to be the right PERSON in the right PLACE at the right TIME.

Do you believe in luck or that you create and take opportunities? Some would say luck is born, others that it is forged. Some would say some people get all the luck and they get none.

Others would say that luck is distributed relatively equally among most of us over a long period of time: that luck evens out in the end and we all get our fair share of good and bad luck.

It would be too simplistic to say that we all have the same, equally distributed amount of luck. Many billions of people in the less developed world can’t help the poverty and war they were born into.

They can’t help that they don’t have basic healthcare, clean water, schooling, access to internet and information. Some people were raised in concentration camps, some never knew their parents.

But, if you compare yourself to people raised in a similar area, with the same amenities and luxuries, then you probably have a similar amount of good and bad fortune, assuming it was randomly distributed.But what about opportunities (luck) that you forge, create, innovate or persist at?

Many people who it would seem have had bad luck, still drive and persist to greatness. Oprah was abused as a child. Abraham Lincoln had all sorts of jobs he was fired from, his 4 year old son died and he failed many times in congress. Yet both achieved greatness that others may call lucky, if you didn’t know their story.

There’s usually some theme of struggle in most successful people, rather than the silver-spoon-all-the-luck that victims usually assume of the successful.

Just because you don’t think you’ve had a lot of luck, doesn’t mean it isn’t there. How do you know that you haven’t had many opportunities that you just haven’t seen? Have you ever done something and wished you did it earlier? Well you had the chance but you couldn’t see it. You may have been given an opportunity before but squandered it.

If you keep squandering chances they are going to dry up and go to someone else. So don’t get ready, BE ready. All the luck those successful people are getting is them grabbing the opportunities they saw that perhaps you missed, or you weren’t ready for, or they earned, or will be yours soon enough.

So how do you become lucky?