You wish everything to go smooth and easy at the beginning of a very busy day to motivate yourself, just before hitting the pedals of the bicycle to start the day. And then, 10 seconds later, the chain slips off the sprockets! You fix it while noticing the chain oil smearing all over your hands.
Oh now you are de-motivated! Then you wish, you hadn’t wished anything at all at the first place. It just doesn’t work.