Life doesn’t bend its will according to effort or the good intentions of the people living it. Sometimes, a lot of the time there’s someone else more qualified or with better connections or who just happened to be in the right place at the right time to grab away that thing you were trying so hard to get.

Some days simply start out badly. You wake up a little late, you miss your bus, the coffee shop accidentally gets your order wrong, then you spill the coffee on your shirt.

You might be inclined to wonder how the advice of someone how lived in the first century AD could possibly pertain to someone living in the twenty first century. The fact is, all the advances we’ve made over the past two thousand years affect the outside of our lives. How we travel, how we acquire and share information, how we communicate etc, but none of that affects how we tick internally.

Ever feel like some people are just plain luckier than you? Like success bumps into them while they were sitting around sipping a soda at the ice cream bar, while it keeps walking by you?