How to Bring More Good Luck Into Your Life
By: Grace Cook
Lucky Leaf. Even a four-leaf clover won't do you much good if you don't make things happen for yourself.
As 2008 ended and 2009 came around, I realized that there are people who subscribe to superstitious beliefs about ensuring good luck for the coming year. My best friend Janet, for example, is applying feng shui to her whole house so that it's suited for the Year of the Ox. (I guess there's no harm in rearranging the furniture and doing home improvements to bring in good fortune.)
If you ask me, though, I think we all make our own luck. This is what Richard Wiseman, author of The Luck Factor, emphasizes. He offers three easy-to-follow tips on how you can ensure your good fortune:
1. Embrace new things. It pays to check out things that you wouldn't normally check out. You never know. You just may come across something that will make your life better. As Wiseman observes: "Unlucky people are often in a rut." So, to raise the chances of good luck coming your way, resolve to make a quick exit each time you encounter situations that aren't doing you any good.2. Keep a sunny disposition. According to Wiseman, lucky people "tend to look on the bright side." It may be quite a challenge to pull this off, but once you have it down pat then nothing can bring you down. This attitude will help you bounce back from the most trying situations. Picture this: If you're running late for work and your car won't start, just thank your lucky stars that your engine trouble manifested itself in your garage and not when you're in the middle of a freeway.
3. Paint a pretty picture. "Lucky people assume positive things will happen to them," states Wiseman. When you're starting a new project or, perhaps, setting up a new business, visualize your success. As long as you've covered all the necessary bases, then luck is on your side.
There you have it, folks. You don't have to wait around for Lady Luck to pay you a visit. You can be proactive about it. Yes, we can all go through our good luck rituals. But, we have to remember that the luckiest charm we could ever hope to have is our ability to make things happen ourselves.
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Comments
Yes I agree positive people assume good things will happen, but maybe because they are visualising it in their mind as well. Visualising it may help you make the right descisions and actions and help attract it as well. Good ideas here. Happy 2009.
New year ,new ife to face, much easier to take if you always keep your day to day in possitive perspective . Not allowing negative behavior and attitudes because surely it will ruin your day.
Luck is a mind set good or bad. The best luck one will ever know is the power of positive thinking.
It is almost hard for me to believe. but I know a group of people who won a very large sum of money by regularly and repeatedly buying lottery tickets. Not only that, but less than 2 years later, they won the SAME huge amount of money AGAIN. Some of those people are grinning every day with how LUCKY they are, yet (I repeat) UNBELIEVABLY some groan about "if only we'd had one more number, our prize would have been XYZ millions, instead."
Those who believed that their "luck" had been good are obviously much happier than those who think their luck was rotten to have been "cheated" out of millions.
Life is 1% what happens, and 99% how you react to what happens. "Luck" is entirely imaginary, and like most "beliefs" is just a silly baseless superstition.
I have set my company on a course to CHANGE THE WORLD. I personally may or may not see a lot of it happen, or play a major role, but we have explained it to enough people that we know that it will happen now with or without us. No amount of luck can make it happen, and no amount of "bad luck" can prevent it either. Indeed BY MAKING THE CHANGE POSSIBLE, we HAVE ALREADY CHANGED the WORLD!
Love and warm wishes,
Stafford "Doc" Williamson
I totally agree. Every one faces challenges. However the so called lucky people-make a decision to choose their thoughts and action when faced with challenges. They view challenges as opportunities and find ways to make it work in their favor
This makes perfect sense to me but every once in a while Istill enjoy trying otherwise....
and also sometimes 'fortune' isn't all that. It can favor the most bleak and cynical while passing over the mild and hopeful.
I also just altered my feng shui for the coming year, but not for luck, but rather for alignment and balance and comfort really.
You are absolutely right. I believe that luck is like happiness,it is a state of mind. You can have all the things in the world and still feel miserable, or you can feel so lucky that you have basic things such as good food, friends, family, and other things which most people take for granted. Appreciating things that we have is a first step toward creating our own good luck.
Good luck is mindset, and i agree that we create our own good luck because we think that we deserve to get good luck. and if we think we will get good we get good things in our life. there is a rule law of attraction : what we think will happen in life.
A happier life is one that is based on a positve approch to life. smile when you want to cry,laugh more a lifes little bring downs. you will see a marked differnce in your day to day life.