An end result, imagined clearly and acted upon with expectation, Laurel, will always force the circumstances necessary to bring about its own manifestation, no matter how unpredictable, unlikely, or even impossible those circumstances may have previously seemed.
Like clockwork,
The Universe
At which point the one who did the imagining and expecting, Laurel, will be said to have "lucked out royally" by all those who don't yet know how life really works. Consider it flattery.