IT’S NOT LUCK, IT’S THE CHOICES THEY MADE LAST YEAR
It’s a bit weird when I hear people attribute the success of another person to luck.
I mean, other than those who were born with silver spoons, a whole lot of people had to work their way up and conquered a lot of challenges on their path to success.
There’s no such thing as an overnight success, and even though it doesn’t look like it, there was a lot of work put in, that you probably didn’t see.
As Dr. Olufemi Oluseyi once said, “Happenings don’t come by luck. There must be consistent planning towards your goal.”
And this is true because even those born with silver spoons tend to lose their spoons if they don’t put in the work to maintain them 🤷🏾♀️.
Ironically, 2020 birthed more billionaires than we saw in recent years.
Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Steve Ballmer of Microsoft, and a host of other billionaires added to their billions in the midst of a pandemic by a whopping $637 billion in total.
We could see the likes of Elon Musk rise to the top of the Forbes list with a $209bn net worth, as of January 2021.
Mind you, Elon Musk has been in business since 1995 and has been active for 25years.
He didn’t become an overnight success, his success was 25years in the making.
You can agree with me that the rise to success in the midst of chaos has become quite a pattern.
We have seen successful start-ups birthed from economic recessions and the pandemics.
For instance, WhatsApp was founded by two Yahoo veterans Jan Koum and Brian Acton, which was launched in 2009, right after the 2008 great recession.
Let’s not forget the likes of Instagram, Snapchat, Uber, and a host of other successful start-ups that were launched about the same time.
Existing businesses exploded during the 2020 pandemic too. We know Tesla and Space X became a household name in 2020 (even though they had been around for a long time), and Zoom probably got the bigger slice of the recognition cake.
Zoom had been in existence for nine years prior to the Covid-19 pandemic but saw a significant global increase when it became the go-to means of connection for businesses, families, schools, and religious centers, following the introduction of quarantine measures adopted in response to the pandemic.
To be honest, a lot of people heard about the Zoom app during the pandemic, and despite public and government scrutiny, the zoom app thrived with Eric Yuan(Founder of Zoom) growing his net worth by over $2.5 billion. On April 30, 2020, zoom joined the NASDAQ-100 stock index.
No one is saying you need to wait for a pandemic or a recession to be successful or start a business.
But the question is if any opportunity should arise for you to be successful, what have you put in place, and what can you bring to the table of opportunities to stand you out?
Billionaires are not made overnight, and there is no luck in this game of life. You need to be strategic and intentional with whatever you do.
Contrary to the success of some of its billionaires, 2020 made losers too, and we cannot say that they were unlucky either.
The pandemic created some sort of level-playing field, but the only rule of the game was to come play with whatever you have.
What you have will set you up either in an advantaged or disadvantaged position.
“In life, there will always be ups and downs, but how prepared are you to ride the waves?”- Dr. Olufemi Oluseyi
To some people, 2020 was seen as the harbinger of doom, but to others like Elon Musk, it was just the right atmosphere to soar (and SOAR he did).
It wasn’t luck, it was the choices they made while you weren’t making any.
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Cheers to the billionaire decade 🥂
