The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself.

Luck is real, and so is the fact that careful people keep finding themselves in better positions. Thinking ahead, keeping some slack, honouring commitments and choosing whom to be involved with all quietly change the odds. Much of what gets called good fortune is a long series of unremarkable decisions.

Pick one area where you have been leaving things to chance and put a small structure under it: savings, health, a contract written down, a difficult conversation held early. None of it feels like fortune while you are doing it. That is rather the point.