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Why Some People Seem To Have All the Luck
Why do some people have all the
luck while others never get the breaks they deserve? I set out to examine luck,
10 years ago. Why are some people always in the right time, while others
consistently experience ill fortune? I placed advertisements in national
newspapers asking for people who felt consistently lucky or unlucky to contact
me.
Hundreds
of extraordinary men and women volunteered for my research and over the years,
have been interviewed by me, I have monitored the rives and had them tae part
in experiments. The results reveal that although these people have almost no
insight into the causes of their luck, their thoughts and behavior are
responsible for much of their good and bad fortune. Take the case of seemingly
chance opportunities. Lucky people consistently encounter such opportunities,
whereas unlucky people do not.
I
carried out a simple experiment to discover whether this was due to differences
in their ability to spot such opportunities. I gave both lucky and unlucky
people a newspaper, and asked them to look through it and tell me how many
photographs were inside. I had secretly placed a large message halfway through
the newspaper saying: “Tell the experimenter you have seen this and win $50”.
This
message took up half of the page and was written in type that was more than two
inches high. It was starting everyone straight in the face, but the unlucky
people tended to miss it and the lucky people tended to spot it.
Unlucky
people are generally more tense than lucky people, and this anxiety disrupts
their ability to notice the unexpected.
As
a result, they miss opportunities because they are too focused on looking for
something else. They go to parties’ intent on finding their perfect partner and
so miss opportunities to make good friends. They look through newspapers
determined to find certain types of job advertisements and miss other types of
jobs.
Lucky
people are more relaxed and open, and therefore see what is there rather than
just what they are looking for. My researches eventually reveal that lucky
people generate good fortune via four principles. They are skilled at creating
and noticing chance opportunities, make lucky decisions by listening to their
intuition, and create self-fulfilling prophesies via positive expectations, and
adopt a resilient attitude that transforms bad luck into good.
I
wondered towards the end of the work, whether these principles could be used to
create good luck. I asked a group f volunteers to spend a month carrying out
exercises designed to help them think and behave like a lucky person. Dramatic
results! These exercises helped them spot chance opportunities, listen to their
intuition, expect to be lucky, and be more resilient to bad luck. One month
described what happened. The result were dramatic: 80 percent or people were
now happier, more satisfied with their lives and, perhaps most important of
all, luckier.
The
lucky people had become even luckier and the unlucky had become lucky. Finally,
I had found the elusive ‘luck factor’.
1)
Listen to your gut instincts they are normally right.
2)
Be open to new experiences and breaking your normal
routine.
3)
Spend a few moments each day remembering things that
went well.
4)
Visualize yourself being lucky before an important
meeting or telephone call.
Have a Lucky Day and work for
it………
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