be ready when llightning strikes

Every so often, someone is struck by an unexpected windfall—a sudden surge of financial opportunity that seems like a dream come true. Whether it’s an inheritance, winning the lottery, a business breakthrough, or simply being in the right place at the right time, these moments of fortune feel like being struck by lightning.

Yet, as history has shown time and time again, many of these individuals find themselves right back where they started within a few short years. Some lose everything in less than three years; others manage to stretch it out a bit longer. But few continue to prosper and grow beyond that initial stroke of luck.

Why?

Because they were unprepared for the lightning strike.

Yes, there are always exceptions—those who make wise choices and transform their good fortune into generational wealth. But for the majority, the windfall becomes nothing more than a fleeting moment of excitement, a memory of their “fifteen minutes of fame” before they return to their previous financial standing.

But what if it didn’t have to be that way?

What if you could not only be prepared for your moment of fortune but also harness the energy of that storm, ride it hard, and maximize its potential? What if you could turn a single moment of success into a lifetime of prosperity, building a legacy that outlives you and benefits future generations?

When people suddenly come into money, they often experience an emotional high. They feel invincible. They believe that their fortune will last forever or that they have all the time in the world to figure out what to do with it. In the excitement of newfound wealth, they:

- Spend lavishly without a plan.
- Make impulsive, high-risk investments.
- Give too much away without considering sustainability.
- Trust the wrong advisors or manage everything alone.
- Neglect personal growth, financial education, or future planning.

It’s a dangerous illusion. Money, when not properly managed, disappears faster than most people expect. And once it’s gone, the hard lesson sets in: money itself does not create security—alignment, knowledge, and strategy do.

This is where my work comes in. I help my clieexpertnts prepare for their moment of fortune before it happens—or, if they’ve already received their windfall, I help them harness it effectively.

Success, like wealth, isn’t just about luck. It’s about preparation and execution. If you are truly ready when fortune strikes, you won’t just experience a fleeting moment of success—you will turn that moment into a powerful, lasting transformation.

Here’s how:

1. Find Your Life Purpose

Money without purpose is like a ship without a rudder. Before you ever receive a financial windfall, you need to define your mission. What do you want to achieve? What impact do you want to make? How can you use money to fuel that vision rather than simply spend it?

1. Align Your Projects, Purpose, and Energy for Maximum Flow

Success isn’t just about effort—it’s about alignment. When your projects, finances, and decisions are in harmony with your deepest values and personal truth, everything flows more easily. Instead of exhausting yourself by forcing things to happen, you create a resonance that attracts the right opportunities, people, and results.

Alignment creates efficiency. When you focus on projects that are in sync with your:

- - - Core beliefs – ensuring your wealth is used in ways that feel meaningful.
    - Personal values – directing your energy toward what truly matters to you.
    - Life purpose – ensuring that every investment, business venture, and financial decision supports your long-term mission.
    - Natural talents and passions – working with your strengths instead of against them.

When all of these are in alignment, less effort is required, yet greater results unfold. You’re not just chasing success; you’re attracting it because your work, your resources, and your purpose are vibrating at the same frequency.

1. Establish Yourself as the Expert in Your Field

Long-term prosperity isn’t just about having money—it’s about being valuable. If you position yourself as a leader in your field, your opportunities will multiply, and you’ll continue generating wealth beyond your initial windfall.

By leveraging your expertise and aligning your public image with your core purpose, you create sustainable influence and financial security.

1. Maximize Your Prosperity for Future Generations

True financial success extends beyond personal wealth—it builds a lasting legacy. That means:

- - - Setting up structures that protect assets and allow your wealth to grow.
    - Creating businesses or investment vehicles that generate long-term income.
    - Ensuring that your financial decisions reflect the energy of abundance, not scarcity.
    - Mentoring others, including your family, to sustain and grow the wealth.

The Cost of Not Being Ready

I’ve met many people who had the chance to work with me before their moment of fortune arrived. In the moment, they felt confident they didn’t need my guidance. They sought advice elsewhere or, worse, assumed they could manage on their own.

Three years later?

You already know what happened.

Some managed to stretch their fortune a bit longer, but eventually, the money was gone. They had fun while it lasted, and many don’t fully regret their choices—but if given another chance, they would have done things differently.

Most people don’t get a second lightning strike. When fortune arrives, you need to be ready to seize it, control it, and transform it into something greater.

The best time to prepare for success is before it happens. The second-best time is right now.

If you’ve already experienced a financial windfall, you still have the opportunity to redirect your course and build something lasting. But if you’re waiting for your moment to arrive, don’t wait passively—prepare actively.

Seek guidance. Align your projects with your purpose. Operate in flow rather than force.

Because when lightning strikes, the only question is: will you harness its power, or will you let it fade into a distant memory?

Choose wisely. Your legacy depends on it.

If this has happened to you, you know how it feels to have been so close that you could taste it, then look back at that rarest of moments, when everything could have lined up perfectly and your life could have been propelled into an entirely new more prosperous direction and you’re left uttering those words, “I was there! It could have happened, but I blew It.” regrettably.

These rare moments are what I refer to as “lightning strike” moments, and if you are ready at the moment of that strike of lightning, you can benefit greatly. Lighting, as rare as it is, can be capitalized upon if you are ready, and it has been going on for years, from the ancient healers who would watch a pond of water atop a hill, waiting for lightning to strike, so he or she could retrieve healing lightning water to be used as an antibiotic for the tribe, to the mid-1700s when Benjamin Franklin conducted his famous kite-and-key experiment that led to the invention of the Tesla coil, an electrical resonant transformer circuit, by inventor Nikola Tesla in the pre-1900s, and countless other developments by which many have profited wildly.

I believe that this could happen to you, not to be hit by physical lightning but to be visited by that moment that comes without warning and by which you will be likely unprepared to profit from that particular moment in time. If you are not ready, the moment will slip by, unnoticed by your friends, family, or others, who may only hear of it by your telling of the moment that you could have made it had you only known or been better prepared.

Lightning Doesn’t Strike Twice?

I have many clients who were visited by such a moment and want to be ready if it ever happens again. Oh, you say, you could never be hit by lightning twice. Right? Say that to Roy Sullivan who was hit by lightning 7 times and lived through each strike. Say that to Deborah Brown who won a single lottery 30 times in one day. Or Richard Lustig, who won seven lotteries between 1993 and 2010, and continued to cash in on those concurrent lightning strikes by writing his book, Learn How to Increase Your Chances of Winning the Lottery. I know two people who have won the lottery twice.

A Moment on TV

Bobak Ferdowsi, AKA The Mohawk Guy — The Mowhawk Guy

You just never know when or where it’s going to strike. Like the guy who was working for NASA in the summer of 2012, who accidentally was caught by cameras during the Curiosity landing, sporting a mohawk haircut with stars carved into the sides. That was it. Next thing you know Bobak Ferdowsi, AKA “The Mohawk Guy” is pals with the President and First Lady, featured in national historical events, becomes a TV show and movie actor, and a spokesperson for the youth of the world to take an interest in math, science, and space technology.

Not unlike my being a “witness to a burning building” example, a young man, Antoine Dodson, is featured in a newscast following the breaking and entering and attempted rape of his sister which Dodson interrupted as the assailant fled the scene. His statement to the camera was all that it took.

The Gregory Brothers captured the vocal track and featured it in, “The Bed Intruder Song” and they split the writing credits and royalties with Dodson. Dodson parlayed his earnings into online retailing, created phone apps including a sex offender tracker, is featured in commercial advertisements, and a reality show. Kevin Antoine Dodson, the American Internet celebrity, singer, and actor has moved his family from “the projects” in Huntsville to LA.

A Post Goes Viral

Then there is the foodie columnist who writes a review about Olive Garden in 2012 that goes viral. Later, on August 27, 2013, Marilyn Hagerty releases her book, Grand Forks: A history of American dining in 128 reviews, a no-brainer, method to follow up on the media sensation, as it was only a reprint of her original reviews, but she was ready. There are so many countless examples of someone putting something out there, with no intention of it going viral, but it does.

Be Ready

And that, my friend, is the point, the readiness. Be ready for when that lightning strike happens. And that is exactly what I do with my clients, to ready them in such a way, that benefitting massively from the lightning strike is a part of the plan. So, you never have to worry about thinking, “I was there! It could have happened, but I blew It.”

Oh, and get this, my plan is so good that you don’t even need the lightning strike to make it work.