Hoping a lucky break finds you is a plan with no steering wheel. Grab the wheel.

Luck is real and it lands unevenly, but it lands on people who are in motion far more often than on people waiting. Hope by itself gives you nothing to adjust. There is no next move, no feedback, nothing that makes the following week any different from this one, which is why it feels so much like drifting.

Pick one action that puts you in the way of it. Send the message, enter the thing, show up at the open session. You are not manufacturing luck. You are widening the surface it can land on.