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Success Is Just A Game Of Chance

3 min readMar 25, 2025

All success is is luck.

Being at the right place, at the right time, with the right motivation, intention and surrounded by the right people, guarantees success.

Getting all of these (and many more) factors to line up exactly when they need to is just chance.

Well, kind of at least, for there are people that seem to have more of these chances than others.

Think about success like a game of poker.

Every moment is another hand you draw at the poker table.

If all the cards align, you will draw into a royal flush.

The right place is a King, the right time the queen, the right motivation the jack, the intention the 10, and being surrounded by the right people the ace in the hole.

The problem is that some of us do not have the chance to even draw these cards, for they are not present in our deck.

We stack the deck with the cards we put in before the game begins.

It’s the habits, actions, and routines that create cards that flood our deck.

If we move to LA, go to auditions when they are scheduled, have the motivation to become a better actor or actress, the intention to take any role we can and are surrounded by people that encourage and…

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Lukas Schwekendiek
Lukas Schwekendiek

Written by Lukas Schwekendiek

Life Coach, Speaker, Writer. Published on TIME, Inc & Huffington Post. Coaching available again! Email: Lukas.schwekendiek@gmail.com with the word "Coaching"

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