#Lucky March 17

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March 2026 marks the 75th consecutive month that Jeff Neelon, Jaclyn Donovan, and I have completed a 30-Day Coach4aday Challenge. For this milestone month, we’ve chosen to focus on teaching. Each day for 30 days, we will share one lesson, principle, or insight gained from the previous 74 challenges—calling it the 30-Day Coach4aday Teach It Challenge. For each of us we believe that our own personal growth increases when we share it.

Today in honor of St. Patrick’s Day, we will review a lesson on being LUCKY.

If you’ll be around people celebrating St. Patrick’s Day today, you may hear the phrase “the luck of the Irish” from a crowd dressed in green declaring they’re lucky.

Last week I revisited some of Jim Collins works and rediscovered a couple of phrases. Collins likes to use “Who LUCK” and “Return on LUCK”. Just what do they mean?

“Teach It” 30 Day Challenge Guidelines

In past challenges, we invited others to join us, though participation has been limited. This month, the three of us will return to January 2020—the very beginning—and move forward to the present, reflecting along the way and sharing a life lesson or insight from any month with one another.

Here is how we will do it.

1. Identify the principle, insight, or lesson from a previous 30-Day Challenge-identify the Challenge also.
2. Teach that lesson to each of us.
3. Share the conversation by posting on social media with the hashtag #Coach4adayChallenge

Day 17-Jim Collins on being Lucky

Jim Collins has written many great books including Good to Great and Great by Choice. In that later book he touches on what he and his team learned about how to best handle being lucky.

In his research, Collins found all companies have lucky and unlucky events. I think the same thing can be said for all of us. When these moments happened to good companies, they would double down on that lucky event and get the most out of it allowing them to better handle the unlucky ones. Collins was convinced that approximately the same amount of good and bad luck happen to all companies and all people.

What we do with that good fortune become “Return on LUCK”.

We all cross paths with different people, yet choosing to get to know them can make us “Who LUCKY”. We have to invest in creating a relationship in order to receive a dividend. We also have to recognize that when new people come into our lives we have to spend energy to help the bond grow.

Here is a video