Create your own luck

"I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have

of it", Thomas Jefferson.

Ask any very successful person what the secret to their success is, and

they will usually answer hard work AND a lot of luck. It is an essential

combination that has led to the greatest innovations of all times. I do

not believe that success is possible by only luck alone. Just look at the

history of lottery winners; more of them declare bankruptcy within 5 years

of winning than the general population. The same goes for hard workers;

without the opportunity to be in the right place at the right time all that hard

work and effort could lead to little success.

Last week Signature Community had one of those right-place-at-the-right-

time opportunities, one that I think will be very beneficial to our residents

for years to come.

So here is the story: 
 One of our residents in the Kansas City market

sent an email to our leasing office to relocate within our properties.

He inadvertently added an extra letter to the email address, and this

misplaced email fortuitously ended up being forwarded to my account. I

forwarded it to the proper team member at Signature; but I also noticed

that the resident's signature line was from the Kaufman Institute in

Kansas City, one of the preeminent organizations in the world for helping

entrepreneurs.

I took the bold step of reaching out to our resident (a director of the

Institute) to ask for the Kaufman Institute's help in growing the Signature

Job Training Program, with the goal of helping our residents retool

themselves into jobs or new businesses to survive this new economy.
 I

had been thinking about this project for the past year and we have been

working on it at Signature for the past few months, so this accidental

email luckily came my way at the right time. My call to Kaufman was well-

received, and they have agreed to partner with Signature Community

on rolling out entrepreneurial training to select Signature Community

residents.

A little luck and a lot of hard work can produce great results. In the next

few month we will be making available to our residents what I hope will be

the kind of program that gives them the opportunity to succeed in this wild

new economy.

Thanks for making luck happen at Signature Community.

--
Nickolas Jekogian
CEO
Signature Community
917-763-3500
www.ASignatureCommunity.com
Blog -http://www.nwjceommm.blogspot.com/

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