When it comes to success and making more money I often hear people saying that they ‘need a break’.

They are not talking about a fortnight in the sun; they are referring to the kind of ‘lucky break’ people have which catapults them towards their desired goal.

A ‘break’ can lead to the dream job, it can change a person’s life for the better, it can take a person from an unknown to a star.

Everyone deserves a ’lucky break’ every once in a while.

When you look at successful people and their history, you can often pinpoint their lucky break which changed their direction or catapulted them to success.

At a quick glance it looks like serendipity handed them the break they needed. Divine intervention stepped in and answered their prayers.

For all intents and purposes, they did have a ‘lucky break’.

But luck really has nothing to do with it.

I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work, the more of it I seem to have.

What most people don’t realise is that if you look closely, you will see that those people very often manufactured the lucky breaks they needed.

You only have to look at television shows like Before They Were Famous to see what celebrities were doing before they made it big.

The one thing which has always struck me with the entertainers that are featured on those shows is that they are all putting themselves in positions where they are most likely to be ‘discovered’.

They are already ‘entertaining’ people and turning up at the places where they need to be seen.

If they are not already performing in one way or another, they are reaching out and showing influential people their talents.

One example is the popular UK rave DJ and musician known as DJ Gammer – yes, I don’t know who he is either, I was recently told this story by someone in the office.

When he was only 14 years old, Gammer (not his real name fortunately) pestered his mother to hand a tape of a mix he had recorded to one of the women she cleaned for.

His mother was a cleaner and she cleaned the house for a woman who happened to be the mother of DJ Dougal (don’t ask me where they get these names from!), one of the UK’s top rave DJs and musicians at that time.

She passed the tape on to her client – Dougal’s mother – who then passed it onto her son.

That one action changed the teenager’s future and took him all around the world as one of the most in-demand DJs and musicians of the rave scene.

Dougal had his own studio and record label and because he liked what he had heard he took young Gammer under his wing and guided him to the big time.

Had the teenager not pestered his mother to pass on the mix tape, he would have probably spent the next few years mixing in his bedroom alone before having to go and find a ‘real’ job.

Yes, it was very fortunate for him that his mother happened to be a cleaner for the mother of one of the most influential DJs and musicians on the scene at that time, but he still reached out to him.

He spent ages crafting the best mix he could which he then put in front of the person who could help him get what he wanted.

It’s a similar story for many of the big songs and dance acts of the 1990s and 2000s.

DJ’s working the big clubs in Ibiza were often handed ‘white label’ (self pressed) records by strangers. If the DJ liked what they heard, they would play them at club nights and on radio shows catapulting the song and band into the charts.

‘Lucky break’s mostly occur when people ‘make them happen’ by taking specific actions.

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