I believe everything happens for a reason, and you just keep working and striving and things will fall into place for you. That is my mindset.

Effort creates luck, not destiny

There's a real tension in this kind of thinking—it can feel either inspiring or like a trap, depending on the day. On one hand, the belief that effort compounds and patterns emerge over time is genuinely useful. It keeps you moving forward when results aren't immediate, which is how most real things actually work. You don't see the benefit of consistent practice until you suddenly do. On the other hand, this mindset can become dangerous if it morphs into spiritual fatalism—blaming yourself when things don't work out, or worse, staying in harmful situations because you're waiting for the "reason" to reveal itself.

The real power here isn't in cosmic inevitability. It's in what psychologists call an "internal locus of control"—the belief that your actions matter. When you operate from that place, you stay alert, you adjust course, you keep showing up. That's what actually creates luck. But the healthy version includes this: sometimes things don't work out, sometimes bad timing is just bad timing, and that doesn't mean you failed or missed your purpose. You build resilience by working intentionally while holding your outcomes loosely. The striving matters. The reason? That reveals itself through what you actually do, not the other way around.