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A buddy of mine emailed me, joking about my connections (the internet world is very small, odds are you know someone who knows someone), saying that if she could only get so-and-so screenwriter to convert her book, she’d be all set.

I spent a few minutes on the internet, found the screenwriter’s business address and sent it to her, suggesting she send him a query.

She pushed back, making an excuse that he likely doesn’t want to be bothered.

Honey, I told her, if he doesn’t want to be bothered, he wouldn’t list his address on his website. Send the darn query.

I don’t know the results of the query (too soon). I don’t even know whether my friend sent it. But I do know that she has better luck hammering out a deal with him if she does.

There’s a story floating around about Anderson Cooper. About how after graduating, even with his connections (his Mom is Gloria Vanderbilt), he couldn’t get a reporting job, so he made his own press badge and went off to cover wars.

I’m told I was lucky, as an accountant, to get exposure (along with top notch mentoring) to product development at a major beverage company. What folks forget is that I was basically working 2 jobs (about 70 hours a week), one getting my accounting work done, the other “volunteering” in new product development. Yep, I was working for free.

I guess what I’m saying is that luck often doesn’t “happen”, it is created. You create enough opportunities, you WILL get lucky (that's a mathematical certainty). This works in business, investing, and even romance.