Its a world of surprises for everyone so for me also. Learned always to struggle, actually i don't believe in words like luck or bad luck.
The Logic of life is only if you do some mistake, you get something bad and if you do something better you get something better. Something better is obviously, relations, wealth, health or it can be anything.
Just believe in hard work and don't wait for any stupid luck and results will be positive only.
and when you start getting good results then just add plenty of smart work, you will be on the top.
That's the only golden secret of my life. May be you like or dislike doesn't matter because everybody has his/her own single steering