66. Make somebody’s day
To basketball coach John Wooden, making each day your masterpiece was 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 ...
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