It is more easy to get a favour from fortune than to keep it.

Luck arrives without your help, and it leaves the same way unless something is built to hold it. A windfall, a good client, an unexpected opening: each of these takes very little effort to receive and steady effort to sustain. People often treat the arrival as the achievement and then find, a year later, that they never put anything underneath it.

Take whatever is currently going well for you and ask what keeps it going. Usually it is one or two dull habits rather than a talent. Protect those in your calendar before you spend the good fortune on anything else.