“I’m a great believer in luck. The harder I work, the more of it I seem to have.” ⏤Fred L. Emerson

So much of life feels like placing your ear against a door, listening to the amazing music on the other side, and not finding the courage to simply open it and walk right in. You know in your heart that each new threshold crossed and each new room entered is a gateway to growth and learning, yet you stand outside with your hand on the handle, hesitant and anxious. Even just knocking feels daunting. What if someone opens the door and scoffs at who stands there? What if there’s a secret handshake that everyone knows but you? Why bother knocking when you know there is little chance that the door will open for you? You tell yourself you are completely satisfied with whatever few sounds and snippets can be heard through the door, that you don’t need to encounter the full symphony on the other side, but fear is a terrible liar, isn’t it?

Depending on your point of view, it can look like doors open easily and magically for everyone else, that life for others is like coasting down the boulevard with light after light turning green. The unsought offer of promotion. The unsolicited invitation to take part. The first access to a sweet deal. The chance encounter. It’s easier to recognize the serendipity and magic in other people’s lives than it is to see it in your own but serendipity and magic don’t form out of nothingness. They form out of the swirl of possibilities that you create, the raw ingredients of possible outcomes that you throw into the mix through your direct action. Doors open for other people precisely because they found the courage to knock, and the more doors they knocked on, the easier it became, and the more doors opened. It’s a simple matter of cosmic math, the arithmetic of the Divine.

If for every action there is a reaction, then it stands to reason that you must invite outcomes into your life through action. Just as with a lock and key, neither part works without the other. There is nothing random about chance. It willingly descends upon the active and the brave. That door you are afraid to knock on, knock on it anyway. It may just open and be the gateway to a completely unexpected outcome or experience.

Life is a hallway with a thousand doors. A banquet with a thousand plates. A tree with a thousand fruits. The more chances that you take, the more doors open to you, the more feasts await you, and the greater your harvest. Enjoy life, and invite fortune to join you.

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