How To Get Lucky Today

Would you like to get lucky? There are at least a dozen ways. The simplest one is to just start looking for good luck.

Have you ever noticed that when you buy a new car, you start to see similar cars all over? They were there, of course, but now you are seeing them, because your are looking. This is how it is with luck too.

Start counting the ways you are lucky in life, and the first thing you’ll notice is that you feel better. A sense of gratitude is good for your soul, even if you’re not religious.

Start watching for more good luck, and you’ll notice that you "get lucky" more often. This won’t be your imagination. 

Looking For Good Luck Creates It

I won’t tell you God or the universe brings luck into your life once there’s grattitude in your heart. That’s a nice thought, but not my style. The less spiritual explanation is that when you acknowledge luck, and look for more, you create a certain frame of mind. It helps you take advantage of opportunities you might otherwise not recognize.
 

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Top 10 Secrets of the Lucky People

Everybody says that health is the most important thing. But a little bit of luck could do more. Many victims of earthquakes or airplane crashes can be very healthy, indeed…

Psychologists say that a certain type of behavior favors luck. Others say that luck is by the side of those who take their chances. The next tips are given by psychologists:

1. Imagine that luck is on your side. You have to behave in such a manner as if you expected only good things to happen to you every day, not just from time to time. Optimism is the key.
"If you’re convinced that you’re a lucky person, you will have a behavior which will determine those around you to be more receptive with your person," said Martin Seligman, Psychology Professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

2. Try to control your negative emotions. Shyness, fury and resentments turn people against us. How to oppress them? First, look for the cause of those emotions, in order to stop them before they control you. If you succeed, you’ll have a better opinion about yourself, you’ll be more optimistic and more extroverted.

Change the way you see difficult colleagues: "X is very good at her job, even if she is short-tempered."

3. Stay open for new opportunities. We don’t know what will happen, but we can improve our chance by training, putting more trust in people and in the fact that good things will happen to us due to this.

For instance, some do not share their ideas with their workmates fearing that their ideas will be stolen. But if you keep amazing ideas just for yourself, they won’t be good for anybody. It is honest people that are actually appreciated.

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Have you ever noticed how some businesspeople are really ‘lucky’?  These lucky people always seem to be in the right place at the right time and they attract great opportunities, as if they were a good luck magnet!  Here in this free guide, I am going to show you how you too can become incredibly ‘lucky’ and benefit from endless outstanding opportunities!

It’s true - you make your own luck!
Thankfully, the old saying really is true; you make your own luck.  There is nothing random or mysterious about ‘being in the right place at the right time’ in business!  Everything happens for a reason; something scientists refer to as ‘cause and effect’.

For example, I was recently called ‘lucky,’ when I told someone how I made a 400% profit on a property I bought.  However, the return I ‘luckily’ made on that deal was the result of deliberate planning and not luck!  The property had been on the market for 3 months when I first heard about it and had been advertised to thousands of people in the local press and via the Internet! None of these people invested in the house, but I did.  I took an informed decision, based on lots of homework or preparation, and then backed that decision up with action.

There was nothing random or mysterious about it.  I recognised a superb opportunity, took action and made my own ‘good luck’.

If an opportunity comes your way when you are prepared for it; and you then take action, you will generate what other people refer to as good luck.  However, if an opportunity comes your way and you have not prepared for it – you will not even recognise it!  Equally, if an opportunity comes your way and you are prepared for it, BUT you fail to take action, you will stay ‘unlucky.’  This lack of action is always the result of fear; I will explain this in more detail in a moment.

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To succeed, you need luck. Of course, you need to work hard, but luck also plays an important role. How many people have worked hard but never achieve anything significant?

Reading the book Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Taleb puts this truth right in front of my eyes. Each field has its own degree of randomness which determines how big the role of luck is. The higher the degree of randomness is, the bigger the role of luck is. Some areas - like financial trading which forms the backbone of the book - have such high degree of randomness that people can be very successful out of pure luck. In some other areas, the degree of randomness is lower, so people always need something else besides luck to succeed. But still, they need luck.

I believe that work hard can only take you to a certain level. To move beyond that, you have to be lucky. As Paul Graham wrote, with only work hard Bill Gates might still be rich, but his position would be near the bottom of the Forbes 400. It is luck that bring him to the top. For most of us, work hard won’t even be enough to take us to the Forbes 400.

Knowing how important luck is, we should know how to deal with it. The first step is adopting a probability point of view. It means that we are aware of the role of probability in (nearly) everything.

There is a simple formula we need to understand to deal with luck:

Expectation = Probability * Frequency

For example, if you roll a dice once, the chance of getting a “1″ is 1/6 (probability). If you roll the dice 60 times (frequency), then you can expect to get “1″ 10 times (expectation). Of course, it is not guaranteed; there is a possibility - though very small - that you never get “1″ despite rolling the dice 60 times. But the most likely outcome is getting “1″ 10 times.

From this formula, there is something we can learn on how to deal with luck:

To deal with luck, the best thing you can do is increasing your expectation.

You may or may not be successful, but the best thing you can do is increasing your expectation.

To increase your expectation, as you can see in the formula, there are two things you can do:

1. Increasing the probability, and
2. Increasing the frequency

The probability is your chance to succeed in any single attempt while the frequency is the number of attempts you try.

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Have you ever read an article about somebody who was successful because they were born into wealth or they were at the right place at the right time? A Greek shipping tycoon that is worth billions and started with millions from his father? A couple of guys that were able to create an internet business because they hit it big when they cashed their stock options from Microsoft?

You might have thought, “Well, that’s great, but they were lucky, I’d be successful if I was in their shoes.” So you weren’t as lucky. Maybe you worked for a company that never made it big during the rah rah 90’s. Or maybe, your lineage didn’t include the Rockefellers or Vanderbilts. So what. It’s time that you created your own luck.

If you think there is no way you’ll get that lucky, you’re right. But if you think you’re going to get lucky someday, you’re right as well.

Luck isn’t the same for everybody. Sometimes your luck might be that you come up with an idea because you saw a news segment on TV. Or you happen to find somebody willing to loan you $1,000 to get you started. Luck is varying and different for everybody, what you do with it is your choice.

How can you make your own luck? First, you have to realize that you’re going to have to work for it. Second, make sure you know that LUCK it isn’t always what you think it’s going to be. Here are some pointers:

* Talk to everyone. Luck sometimes means having connections. Even though a direct connection might not have what you need, they might know someone who does.

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Good and bad luck are first and always a state of mind. By knowing the art and science of controlling one’s mind, a person can change their luck for the better and thus enjoy the benefits of good fortune. In an instant, with the right attitude, one can become fortunate; similarly, a fortunate person, influenced by either a challenging situation or the opinion or words of negative and fearful people, can become instantly unfortunate. We live in the mind and, although, we are not a mind each of us has one. The mind can be our best friend or worst enemy. Our job is to make the mind work for us so that we can be happy, healthy, and prosperous, instead of allowing the mind to cast us into misery, lack, and limitation.

One day, I mentioned to my friend that I was surprised how dark and gloomy the day was. She laughed and pointed out that it was a very sunny day, but I was wearing dark glasses. Taking off the glasses, I realized she was right. The change from gloomy to bright was instant. I removed the filter that had been in front of my eyes, and my world changed. This was such a good lesson in the power of perception.

Perception determines what we think, desire, say, feel, and do, as it works like a filter through which we view life and thus make our decisions. Every decision we act upon sets our destiny in motion. Because we are all equal in quality being equal parts of God, no one is more or less than another. However, what we do with what we have is what makes the difference, and by observing the people of the world there are enormous differences. Any person who has ever been, is now, or will be is a person just like you and me in quality, a spark of God; therefore Godlike in nature. According to Vedic knowledge, we are made of sat chit ananda or eternal consciousness, and bliss. Not bad considering this gives us everything we could possibly desire. How do we access this infinite and unlimited Divine potential that we are?

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1. Know what you want. Your looks change and fade, character does not. While a certain amount of "chemistry" is nice, don’t rely solely on lust. What qualities are you looking for in a mate? My book "Find a Sweetheart Soon! Your Love Trip Planner for Women" helps readers define their love goals.
2. Get clear about what you don’t want. Knowing what you really can’t tolerate in a partner is important. Make a list of your "don’t wants" and then cut it down to the 10 most important. Any more than that and you’ll be too picky.
3. Live your life. Once you know clearly what you want (and don’t want) in a relationship, shift your focus to living your life. You’ll find that you start noticing those who might fit, and passing by those who don’t.
4. See the big picture. Don’t try so hard that you miss the obvious. If you are great at focusing, step back now and then and look at the big picture. Work on having a playful, whimsical attitude towards life.

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