Guide to Creating Luck & Opportunities

Guide to Creating Luck & Opportunities Key Steps To Find Success By Matt Kinsella (Author of How To Be Lucky) www.mattkinsella.com Guide to Creating Luck & Opportunities Matt Kinsella Copyright © Matthew Kinsella 2011 Smashwords Edition All rights reserved Matthew Kinsella has asserted the moral right to be identified as the author of this work First published in Great Britain by Matthew Kinsella 2011 A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978-1-4477-7532-4 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired, out or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. Guide to Creating Luck & Opportunities About Matt Matt Kinsella is a British entrepreneur who decided to write his book How To Be Lucky after witnessing many people around him passing up life changing opportunities on a regular basis. He saw people did not recognise these potential chances and if they did they nearly always dismissed them quite quickly. Matt started his adult life in a hostel for homeless teenagers and carved a successful career as an entrepreneur from nothing; no qualifications, no financial backing and no family connections. He wanted everyone to see the potential that exists around us but specifically he wanted to help people that were unhappy with their lives and wanted to make a change. Matt soon realised he could not help people with a five minute conversation and a few pointers so decided to write his book How To Be Lucky and hold seminars to really inspire, encourage and show people how to create some luck and make things happen. 1 Guide to Creating Luck & Opportunities Introduction I first came to be in the homeless hostel at around 17 (I think just before my 18th birthday) in 1996 after a short time living in my car and on friend’s sofas. At the beginning it was tough and it took a while to adjust but the turning point came when I had a few harsh reality checks, one of which was when I visited a friend in a maximum security prison. This experience along with other things I was going through at the time were real eye openers and after a while I decided I need to make some dramatic changes in my life if I was going to get out of the mess I was in. I initially worked hard to obtain an IT trainee job which came about by accidentally going to the wrong interview and I exaggerated a bit about what I could do because I was desperate to secure the job. While the company was moving offices before I could start I talked my way into some work experience in an IT department for a private hospital in London for a month so I could learn what I said I could do in the interview. After working hard for 12 hours a day and weekends for free for 6 weeks at my work experience in London (surviving on my jobseekers allowance from social services and staying on an acquaintance`s sofa bed) the hospital offered me double the money to work for them instead. After 1 year working on some new corporate networking technologies I was able to become a self-employed contractor working at some of the biggest companies in the city including WPP, Citibank and Goldman Sachs. I then branched out to setup IT companies that helped SMEs use the same technologies larger companies used but for less money as well as still doing consultancy and project management myself day to day. I also ventured into property development and today I am still doing some IT consultancy but 2 Guide to Creating Luck & Opportunities mostly I am concentrating on overseas property investments including my vineyard in Hungary. I have also spent the last 6 months or so trying to make time to write my book “How To Be Lucky” which explains my story but more importantly it`s a guide to show people how they can make things happen in the same way I did. I never told anyone in my new circle of what I had been through or where I had come from. I spent 5 - 10 years listening to people who didn`t know me tell me I was so lucky. It really started to bug me considering how hard it had been so I decided if this is what people perceived to be "luck" then I could teach them how to be lucky, hence the title of my book. See mattkinsella.com for more info on How To Be Lucky. This mini guide is an introduction to the concepts discussed in my book and summarises some of the key aspects. 3 ... - tailieumienphi.vn