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not just about selfish personal achievement. In his autobiography, They Call Me

Coach, he mentions an element vital to creating each day.

“You cannot live a perfect day,” he said, “without doing something for
someone who will never be able to repay you.”

I agree with that. But there’s a way to make sure you can’t be repaid—and
that’s doing something for someone who won’t even know who did it. This gets
into a theory I’ve had all my life, that you can create luck in your life. Not from
the idea that luck is needed for success, because it isn’t. But from the idea that
luck can be a welcome addition to your life. You can create luck for yourself by
creating it for someone else. If you know about someone who is hurting
financially, and you arrange for a few hundred dollars to arrive at their home,
and they don’t even know who you are, then you’ve made them lucky. By
making someone lucky, something will then happen in your own life that also

feels like pure luck. (I can’t explain why this happens, and I have no scientific
basis for it, so all I can say is try it a few times and see if you aren’t as startled as
I have been at the results…it doesn’t have to be money, either. We have a lot of
other things to give, always.)

When you get lucky, you’ll get more motivated, because you feel like the
universe is more on your side. Experiment with this a little. Don’t be imprisoned
by cynicism posing as rationality on this subject. See what happens to you when
you make other people get lucky.

67. Play the circle game

If you use my four-minute, four-circle, goal-setting system described earlier,
you can be the creator of your universe.

“You know, that’s blasphemous,” a seminar student once told me during a
break. “Only God can create the universe.”

“But if you believe that,” I said, “you must also believe as it is written, that
we were all created in God’s image. And if you believe in God as the Creator,
and that He created us in His image, then what are we doing when we don’t
create? Whose image are we living in when we deliberately do not create?”

Try this: After you wake up in the morning, wipe the sleep from your eyes,
sit down with a pad of paper, and draw four circles. These are your own