"Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work -- and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't." --Lucille Ball
How much of your success in business and in life would you ascribe to luck? If you're anything like the 400 richest people in the world polled by Forbes Magazine, none said their wealth was obtained entirely by luck, but a few thought it was a minor factor.
I suppose you could win the lottery and that's incredibly lucky. Maybe you've received an inheritance from a wealthy relative who you didn't know. That would be lucky. Odds are, however, that if you're a student of mine you have worked incredibly diligently to get to where you are. You've put intention, energy and thought into your place in life.
All that said, however, I believe wholeheartedly in the power of attracting what you want. I believe I am lucky. I wouldn't say all of what I've achieved in life is a result of luck, by any stretch of the imagination, but I would say that I have noticed an increase in luck as I have begun to pay attention to it's benefits and presence in my life. It's like anything else, the more we use it, the more we enhance it, the more of it we will receive.
For the past eight years a man named Richard Wiseman has studied what makes some people lucky and others not. Mr. Wiseman is the head of the psychology department at the University of Hertfordshire in England. He believes after thousands of interviews and experiments, he has finally figured out the key to being lucky. Not surprisingly (to me, at least) this is the same thing that is behind the law of attraction.
At their very essence, lucky people think and behave in ways that create good fortune and more luck in their lives in the same way that people who consider themselves money magnets (on the positive side) or freak magnets (on the less positive side) are also attracting what they put out into the world (consciously or subconsciously).
Playwright Tennessee Williams said it best, "Luck is believing you're lucky."
As the bible tells us, as you sow, so shall you reap. Your thoughts, feelings, intentions, deeds, and expectations, whether they be good or bad, will repay you in kind. I once heard someone say, "I've never won anything. I'm simply not lucky." This person will never be lucky because that is their expectation.
You've heard the saying, 'unlucky in love'. . . well, if you attach that to yourself, what are the odds that you'll find that lucky love? Slim. It's because their thoughts are not congruent with what they really want, which is presumably to be lucky in love.
In researching this idea I came across the blog "How to Be Lucky" at http://www.problogger.net/archives/2006/03/14/how-to-be-lucky/ and found some really valuable pointers on how to increase your luck (ironically or not given as a list of 13 factors).
If you've never considered yourself lucky, it's time to reorient your thoughts to draw that to your life.
How much of your success in business and in life would you ascribe to luck? If you're anything like the 400 richest people in the world polled by Forbes Magazine, none said their wealth was obtained entirely by luck, but a few thought it was a minor factor.
I suppose you could win the lottery and that's incredibly lucky. Maybe you've received an inheritance from a wealthy relative who you didn't know. That would be lucky. Odds are, however, that if you're a student of mine you have worked incredibly diligently to get to where you are. You've put intention, energy and thought into your place in life.
All that said, however, I believe wholeheartedly in the power of attracting what you want. I believe I am lucky. I wouldn't say all of what I've achieved in life is a result of luck, by any stretch of the imagination, but I would say that I have noticed an increase in luck as I have begun to pay attention to it's benefits and presence in my life. It's like anything else, the more we use it, the more we enhance it, the more of it we will receive.
For the past eight years a man named Richard Wiseman has studied what makes some people lucky and others not. Mr. Wiseman is the head of the psychology department at the University of Hertfordshire in England. He believes after thousands of interviews and experiments, he has finally figured out the key to being lucky. Not surprisingly (to me, at least) this is the same thing that is behind the law of attraction.
At their very essence, lucky people think and behave in ways that create good fortune and more luck in their lives in the same way that people who consider themselves money magnets (on the positive side) or freak magnets (on the less positive side) are also attracting what they put out into the world (consciously or subconsciously).
Playwright Tennessee Williams said it best, "Luck is believing you're lucky."
As the bible tells us, as you sow, so shall you reap. Your thoughts, feelings, intentions, deeds, and expectations, whether they be good or bad, will repay you in kind. I once heard someone say, "I've never won anything. I'm simply not lucky." This person will never be lucky because that is their expectation.
You've heard the saying, 'unlucky in love'. . . well, if you attach that to yourself, what are the odds that you'll find that lucky love? Slim. It's because their thoughts are not congruent with what they really want, which is presumably to be lucky in love.
In researching this idea I came across the blog "How to Be Lucky" at http://www.problogger.net/archives/2006/03/14/how-to-be-lucky/ and found some really valuable pointers on how to increase your luck (ironically or not given as a list of 13 factors).
If you've never considered yourself lucky, it's time to reorient your thoughts to draw that to your life.
About the Author:
Kenrick Cleveland teaches strategies to earn the business of affluent clients using persuasion. He runs public and private seminars and offers home study courses and coaching programs in persuasion strategies.
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