Prepared people make luck look unusually cooperative.

Luck arrives for most people and lands differently depending on whether they are ready to use it. The opening appears and one person has the skill, the savings, or the relationship needed to act on it, while another watches it pass. From outside this looks like better fortune. It is mostly better preparation meeting the same fortune.

Rather than waiting for an opportunity, ask what you would need to be able to do if one appeared this year. Build that now. The chance is not under your control and your readiness for it is.