Some have said that luck is when opportunity meets preparation. In his (excellent!) book The Compound Effect, Darren Hardy offers this amended and more complete description of “luck”: Preparation (personal growth) PLUS Attitude (belief/mindset) PLUS Opportunity (a good thing coming your way) PLUS Action (doing something about it) EQUALS Luck Here’s my question for you. In which area do you need to be “luckier”? We can improve our chances of obtaining such luck when we improve in the factors that bring it about. Where are you? What needs to be better? Figure it out, and it might just change your world.

Builder Magazine this week ran a story featuring Jeff Shore and the results of Shore Consulting’s Pulse 2012 survey findings. Read the story here.