On a slightly different tack, yes we do create our own luck in poker. We create it by improving our skills, playing using those skills, and the luck will come. It is the same in any sport/competition, prepare voraciously and the luck will appear to come... of course it won't be luck at all.

Start in the beginners digest, read the documents there, absorb them, play, read them again and then re-absorb them, play... kind of like shampoo... rinse repeat, lather rinse repeat...

Then start posting hands here that give you trouble.