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AN   EXCERPTS From the book "Wings to Fly" In my book,   “Wings to Fly”   I tell a shortened version of the following story. The story revolves around how we can set ourselves up for harm and failure without realizing that we are doing it. When we do, the consequences can be disastrous. Here’s the story. The owl and his friend, the little bird, were perched on a branch together. The wise owl kept looking over at the little bird who had a wing over his right eye and was crying. He kept thinking about what to say. He could see that the little bird was very upset and was crying uncontrollably. He was waiting for the little bird to tell him how come he was so upset and crying. Finally, he thought, “I will just ask him a simple question.” He turned to his friend, the little bird, and asked him; “Why are you crying?” The little bird looked up at his friend the owl and removed his wing from his right eye. The owl was shocked. He could see that the little bird had l

EXCERPTS From the book "Wings to Fly" Most people would immediately say, “Yes!” In my book,   “Wings to Fly ,”   I take a look at how to produce more good luck in your life. This is just one subject.   “Wings to Fly”   provides daily insights, one for each day of the year, ranging from relationships to productivity to self-confidence to name just a few Let’s look at luck. Seneca, the Roman philosopher said that “Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.” Yet, many people never prepare to be lucky. They are into blind luck or dumb luck. Both are truly a matter of chance. There really isn’t much difference. A person with blind luck never sees the opportunity. It just happens. A person with dumb luck does something that is stupid or dangerous and against all odds they don’t get hurt. In one way both blind and dumb luck are the same. In each case, nobody saw the luck coming. Still, luck for most of us is when preparation does meets opportunity. When people mee