YOU ARE THE MASTER OF YOUR DESTINY AND YOU CAN MAKE LUCK FOR YOU TOO.

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When Dr. Viktor Emil Frankl, neurologist and psychiatrist from Vienna, Austria, ceased to be a human being and became number 119,104 in a Nazi concentration camp called Auschwitz-Birkenau, merely nine months after he got married, he still had a treasure no one could take away from him: his free will and his mind.  
Victor Frankl owned the power of choice and the freedom of thought.
"... most men in a concentration camp believed that the real opportunity of life had past.
Yet, in reality, there was an opportunity and a challenge.   One could make a victory of those experiences turning life into an inner triumph, or one could ignore the challenge and simply vegetate, as did the majority of the prisoners.   Man's unique opportunity lies in the way he bears his burden.   Everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way"
Frankl's camp experience between 1942 and 1945, before Auschwitz in Theresienstadt, after Auschwitz in Turkheim, had made it clear to him that the sort of person the prisoner became was the result of an inner decision, and not the result of outside influences alone.   The captive owned another treasure: spiritual freedom, the power of inner life, the power of inner riches.
"The way in which a man takes up the cross, gives him ample opportunity – even under the most difficult circumstances – to add a deeper meaning to his life.   Or in a bitter fight for self-preservation he may forget his human dignity and become no more than an animal."
When he arrived in Auschwitz Frankl had to file past a senior SS officer who decided on life or death with the ever so slightly move of his finger. "Then I was face to face with him.   He was a tall man who looked slim and fit in his spotless uniform.   What a contrast to us, who were untidy and grimy after our long journey!   He had assumed an attitude of careless ease, supporting his right elbow with his left hand.   His right hand was lifted, and with the forefinger of that hand he pointed very leisurely to the right or to the left.   None of us had the slightest idea of the sinister meaning behind that little movement of a man's finger, pointing now to the right and now to the left, but far more frequently to the left.   The SS man looked me over, appeared to hesitate, then put both hands on my shoulders.   I tried very hard to look smart, and he turned my shoulders very slowly until I faced right, and I moved over to that side."
As it turned out left meant gas chambers and right meant work camp.
It was one of many times that Dr. Frankl waited for things to take their course, in general deciding to be the master of his fate through surrendering to it.
"Man's inner strength may raise him above his outward fate. ... facing a fate he cannot change, he may rise above himself or grow beyond himself, and by doing so change himself.   It is a changing for the better."

We are created a unique blessed self and within us is inborn and unborn, unlimited knowing and creative power.
Yet right after we were born our environment starts putting its stamp on us, sometimes so much, that it seems the traditions, demands, beliefs and needs of the environment become a "prison" and hold us back.
We can achieve autonomy through a friendly divorce from our environment and a friendly divorce from the influence of our environment, even though this might take as much strength and guts as Viktor Frankl had to muster up in his prison.
For many the force of the parental voice looms so large that the strength of spirit acts only to stifle the natural need for independence and happiness.  Yet no matter what the voice has told you, the truth is that everyone has the right to their own way and their very own destiny.
Becoming ourselves means emerging from the surrender to our parents needs for us to be a certain way or behave a certain way. Only when we set ourselves free, only when our allegiance is with our personal emergence and our personal path, can we make luck for ourselves. 
Get to know yourself.   Get to know what you need.  Become aware of who you really are.  Learn to distinguish between you and the internalized parental voices.  Stop being loyal to the parental voices.   Resist submission to the old order.  Throw out the old program.  Start siding with you.  Speak for you.  Become your best friend.
Dismantle judgments and negative beliefs about yourself.   Neutralize the judgmental and negative voices. 
If you can think A, you can think B too.   Replace A with B.   Replace judgments and negative thinking with love and positive thinking.  Stop catastrophic thinking.  Turn a problem into a blessing in disguise.  See the crisis as the opportunity.  Change suffering into a learning curve. 
Stop, breath, pause, breath some more, pause some more and above all have patience with yourself.   Choose to approve of yourself.   Treat yourself with care, understanding and compassion.
Recover the inborn and unborn power, align with the inner world, discover the inner guide.  Tap into the vital force. Your inner guide is the most powerful, creative and faithful friend you will ever have. 
Flow with difficulties.   Flow with change.   Know you are going into the best direction.
Your inner strength may rise you above your outward fate, may rise you above yourself, may grow you beyond yourself, may bring you the luck you dreamed of.

Quotes from:
* Man's Search for Meaning. Viktor E. Frankl, Austria 1946 and New York, 1959