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The near-tragedy of January 16, 2009 that has been dubbed “Miracle on the Hudson” became Emma Sophina’s Opportunity with a capital “O”. Emma was on the US Airways flight that made an emergency landing in the Hudson River.

Emma is an Australia singer/songwriter who had been in NYC writing music and was on the way to Atlanta to visit friends when the plane went down. Miraculously, all passengers and crew got out of the plane alive and well. Emma was luckiest of all.

Emma was lucky for several reasons.

#1 – she’s alive! She survived a plane crash.

#2 – Emma’s only connection in NYC was a songwriter.

#3 – she’s adorable and full of spunky personality. (I had the pleasure of meeting Emma – more on that in the next blog entry)

#4 – Mark Swersky, the songwriter Emma traveled to NYC to write with saw an opportunity and knew how to take advantage.

#5 – the time is right, the situation is right and Emma is ready.

Mark and Emma wrote a song about her surviving the plane crash. Within 10 days of the crash the song was written, recorded, produced and mastered. I met Emma less than 3 weeks after the crash when she was being interviewed by Extra and Entertainment tonight.

Lucky Emma. She survived a plane crash, wrote a song about it with a hit songwriter and is hopefully on her way to stardom. That’s what we’re all waiting for is that one stroke of good fortune to swoop in and make us a stars! Right?

Emma could not have taken advantage of this opportunity if she had not been ready at that very moment, though. Can you imagine her asking the gig to wait while she took a few voice lessons to get into shape? No! She had to be ready at that moment to go full speed into writing, recording, being interviewed, hair and make up and all.

Let’s not confuse luck with being ready when the opportunity arises. Emma’s readiness isn’t luck, it’s the result of focused hard work on her craft. When I speak to groups of junior high and high school students about a career in music, I ask what they want from their music. Inevitably, 95% of them answer, “I want to be rich and famous. I know with a little luck I can do it.” Wrong answer!

You have to be passionately driven to create, to know every detail of your craft and to incessantly work on improving. In my book, Morganix Method™-Sing Like You Speak, at the beginning of every chapter there’s a quote from a famous performer. Chapter 11 begins with, “I never wanted to be a star, I just wanted to get work.” Gregory Hines.

Gregory Hines did become rich and famous not because he was aiming for fame and fortune, but because he loved his craft, gave it the respect it deserved by working constantly to make it better.

Why do you think there are so few people who make it in our business? There are millions of very talented people out there. So few people make it because few are so driven by the love of their craft – singing, acting, dancing, songwriting – to persist.

What do you think? Would you be ready if your plane went down in the Hudson and suddenly you had a chance at making your dreams come true?

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