News and ArticlesMay 27, 2008 7:12 am

Ornamental Bamboo Plants

The two most popular bamboo plants in the United States are lucky bamboo and ornamental bamboo. Lucky bamboo is a great house plant for people on the go. It doesn’t take very much space, and it only requires minimal care. To keep your lucky bamboo plant happy all it needs is about an inch of water and plenty of direct sunlight. Because of its low maintenance this is a perfect gift for office workers, people who travel a lot, or people who have traditionally not had luck with house plants.

The second type of bamboo plants that are popular in the United States right now are ornamental bamboo plants. These bamboo plants are not really suitable for most homes and offices, as they can get pretty big when they mature. These plants also are fussier about their growing conditions. They need to be planted outside where the temperature always stays above -10 degrees Fahrenheit, and some variations of this plant need to be planted in areas that never drop below freezing.

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News and ArticlesMay 23, 2008 9:27 am

Lucky Bamboo Plants Care Tips

Lucky Bamboo plants care tips are very easy and do not require too much time from the owner. In fact, these plants can grow for years without much effort from the owner. There are no known pests that attack the plant. They are also tough plants since they can survive with many or little water.

It is best to grow Lucky Bamboo in bowls with moist pebbles and a little water. The water must be let sit for about a day before placing it in the bowl, so that its chlorine and fluoride content will evaporate. It should be placed in areas without direct sunlight. It is really an easy to grow plant but if you want to make it glow, you can add plant foods that are usually added in aquariums. Added nutrients from the plant food will help your Lucky Bamboo. Following these Lucky Bamboo plants care tips will make your plant grow with a healthy glow.

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News and ArticlesMay 21, 2008 11:02 am

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Bamboo Wedding Favors - The Good Luck Favor

Bamboo wedding favors are perfect for those looking for a really unique wedding gift to share with their guests. A symbolic gift that is said to bring good luck, bamboo wedding favors represent perfectly the good wishes and gratitude the happy couple want to share. For those seeking a stylish wedding reception gift embedded with mystical eastern symbolism, bamboo favors are the perfect choice.

Chinese spirituality is filled with meaning that is relevant even to those raised in the western world, and wedding favors with a bamboo theme are an ideal way to translate these meanings into our western traditions. Said to be filled with positive energy, or chi, bamboo wedding gifts will bring good luck to all your guests.

And available with a beautiful range of ceramic pots, bamboo favors will be sure to raise a multitude of smiles too! Whether you choose a single bamboo stick, or a small arrangement, they can be presented in a myriad of ways.

Choose colored stones that match your table settings, or sticks of contrasting heights and widths for a really dramatic look. There is a great range of styles, so whether you choose a uniform arrangement for all your guests, or prefer to mix and match, bamboo wedding favors offer a choice that will suit everyone’s tastes.

Bamboo is also the ideal fall wedding favor. At a time of year when the evenings are closing in, and the temperature is quickly dropping, the year-round greenery of bamboo can be a charming reminder of warmer climes. And with their message of hope and good luck, bamboo arrangements offer a fall wedding favor that reassures your guests that the impending winter can bring good things.

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News and ArticlesMay 20, 2008 7:06 am

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How To Get Luck And Attract It

Were you born lucky or does your toast always fall butter-side down? Being lucky is about confidence and opportunity so chuck out your rabbit’s foot and memorize these luck-bringing tricks…

Expect good fortune - If you stand there thinking, ‘He’s never going to come over’, don’t be surprised if he doesn’t. If you expect a positive outcome it’s more likely to happen. Feel confident and your body language will respond - you’ll stand tall and become more approachable.

Go with your gut - Feel drawn to a particular decision? Listen to your instinct. The subconscious mind (tipped off by visual cues and past experiences) nudges us towards good options. Next time you waver before sending off that job application, listen to your gut - is it telling you the job is tight for you ? If so, spend off your CV.

Change happens - Lucky people get their breaks by accepting failure without losing enthusiasm, while ‘unlucky’ people the things changing and stick with safe options. We call it ‘change blindness’. You need to create space to let luck in; by talking small risks, the fearfulness around you evaporates.

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News and ArticlesMay 16, 2008 11:50 am

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Do You Create Good Luck?

Good luck? Maybe you have heard that luck doesn’t exist, but you can see that some people seem to always have better things happen to them than others. Whatever you call it, would you like to have the secrets that these people have? Here is one of them.

Be In The Right Place For Good Luck

Good luck is often the result of simply being in the right place at the right time. Fortunately, you can choose to be in these places at these times.

A friend once told me "Did you see that truck John bought for $2,000? It must be worth at least $6,000. He’s so lucky!" I mentioned to my friend that John bought it at an auction, where cars often sell for less. In other words, he was in the right place.

"I went to that auction once," my friend answered, "but I didn’t see any deals like that." John goes almost every other week, I told him. Of course he’s more likely to be there at the right time to get the best deals. He’s so lucky that way.

That’s the whole lesson, but in case it didn’t sink in, I’ll ask a few questions to encourage you to apply it in your own life.

Where are you more likely to get a "lucky break" as a movie star: in Clinton, Ohio, or Hollywood?

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News and ArticlesMay 15, 2008 11:52 am

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Strategic Planning Tip - Bad Luck Is the Result of Not Planning

The word plan continues to be a four-letter word. Why? Because people buy established businesses without a written action plan and then complain when the business goes south.

For example, today a potential client told me that he had a string of bad luck. After he and his partner purchased an established business, two key employees left and so did a significant part of the revenue. Also, with the retirement of the owner, existing loyal customers left because their loyalty was to the past owner and not to the current ones. This was all contributed to bad luck!

After listening to the individual complain, I asked him: "Would your outcomes be different if you had taken the time to ask yourself this question: What happens if a key employee left?"

The response was "Sure, but I did not think about any employee leaving. The business was over 30 years old and very well established. All the records were in tact and everything looked good on paper.

An old quote states: "Good luck happens when preparedness meets opportunity."

So possibly the reverse is true that "bad luck happens when no planning meets the unknown."

Simply speaking, the failure to plan is planned failure. Without an action plan to begin to guide a business or even an individual, the end result is usually walking down the wrong path along with a lot of spraying and praying going on.

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News and Articles 2:14 am

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Good Luck on Demand

One of my associates at work would appear to be the luckiest man on the job. Things just seem to work out for him.

Those who know him, describe him as lucky. Harry associates all the good things which happen to him as coming from being lucky. He believes these things to be random acts of good fortune he has no control over.

Sometimes Harry even credits  his dead son for looking out for him. Harry has no power or control over these events because he has given it away. He won’t take responsibility for his luck.

Most of us are like that, we won’t accept the accountability of our own circumstances. We will judge and complain when luck does not come visiting, and we are envious of those who seem to have more luck than ourselves.

The one obvious attribute of luck is it is always given to us. We have to rely on someone or something else to send us luck. We are not lucky when no one is giving us luck. Therefore, luck is unreliable and whimsical and relegated to the precious few.

Luck, chance and good fortune are not as elusive at they may seem. No physical event can happen unless there is a thought behind it. Luck has intelligence driving it, and it does not come from external forces. There can never be a random event called luck because all aspects of spirit must be in agreement for any circumstance to manifest. You cannot give luck to me unless I desire it, or the outcome of the luck. At some point I must wish or desire a thing or an event to occur before luck can be created.

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News and ArticlesMay 14, 2008 5:09 am

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Do you make your own luck

 

Recent studies have shown us that to a greater extent people do, indeed, create their own luck. There will always be situations which occur which are out of our control and in-which we face difficulties and setbacks. However, it is the way in-which we handle these events, and how we respond, which can effect how lucky we feel and which may lead to a more positive outcome.

Most of us will have heard of the expression which talks of a glass being either half full, or half empty. The positive person who is more likely to view themselves as being lucky will always see the glass as being half full. Whereas the person who sees the glass as half empty will view a situation or experience based upon its negative aspects.

You may well wonder though, how it is that some people seem to have wonderful life choices and events simply thrown their way out of the blue. Apparently, it may be because they automatically see new opportunities and act on them, while the more negative amongst us don’t even see opportunities when they are right infront of us.

In one study people were shown a newspaper which they were to read which had a great, positive opportunity offered to them in a small advertisement. The results showed that only the positive, glass half full people, even saw the advertisement. The glass half empty people, of course, just folded up their newspaper after reading it and were unaware that they had missed a great opportunity.

It would seem that inorder to have good luck we need to be open to receiving it. Not only that, but we need also to be prepared to act upon it. If the people in the study who had spotted the small advertisement didn’t bother to respond to it then they didn’t benefit from having seen it any more than the negative people.

When-ever I suggest that we make our own luck to cynical folk they usually try to out-wit me, to prove their point which is the opposite view to mine, by saying, ‘’how do you explain lottery winners then!'’ My retort usually is to remind them that the lottery winners thought of purchasing a ticket as they saw the opportunity to possibly win some money. They then acted on this and purchased a ticket. They then thought positively enough about it to actually check their ticket to see if they had won. Then they cashed in their ticket.

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News and ArticlesMay 13, 2008 8:50 am

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Learn How To Get Lucky In Your Dating Love Life

 

If you want to get lucky in your love life, you’ve got to become convinced of one thing. That one thing is that luck has nothing whatsoever to do with it. You have to be smart, you have to be clever, and you have to be a good person who is open to romance.

Women especially can think that they are not able to get lucky in their love life because they’ve tried before and failed. More than likely that wasn’t about failing to get lucky, as much as it was about making dumb mistakes in their relationships.

Here are some of the dumb things women do to sabotage their chance to get lucky in their love life.

The first mistake that can sabotage luck in love is getting inebriated on a date. Especially early on in the relationship stick to one – maybe two glasses of wine.

Getting sloshed doesn’t make you witty or brave. It makes you loud, unattractive, brazen and more often than not, saying or doing something that will embarrass you and end the relationship.

Don’t get nervous on your first or second or third date and just keep talking and talking and talking.

That little Eveready bunny can keep going and going and going and it’s cute and he might still get lucky in his love life, but you’ll just look self-absorbed.

Share something about yourself, but spend more time asking about him and then be quiet and listen. With a little luck your love life will bloom from your willingness to be his confidante and your decorum in public.

Another thing that can be really tacky and not help you get lucky in your love life is to appear cheap. It’s okay to sometimes pick up the check or go dutch. You don’t want to appear like an over spender either, but always ordering the salad and water may make you look like a real penny pincher and that’s not attractive.

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News and ArticlesMay 12, 2008 3:10 pm

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Change Your Outlook And Your Luck Will Change

 

The key to successful dating is to focus on enjoyment and friendship. Date with the intention of making a new friend rather than expecting to meet your life partner. You’ll have more fun and way less “performance” anxiety.

Six Ways to Maximize Your Fun

1. Approach dating as not just looking for an important relationship, but as enjoying life.

2. View dating as a chance to increase your circle of friends.

3. Find innovative and unusual places to meet people. Join a club, volunteer or take up a sport.

4. Take one positive aspect away from each date. For example, “I liked his values, her sense of

style or his humor.” Pick a quality or characteristic that you would like in your future mate.

This benefits you, even if you aren’t attracted to that person.

5. Become the person you’d like to date. Use your experiences as an opportunity for personal

growth.

6. Embrace your singledom. You have the freedom to do anything you want, meet everyone

you want and learn everything you can about yourself.

The point is to keep dating light and casual, especially early on. On a first date, go out to lunch, drinks or brunch and split the check. This keeps the expectations and pressure lower. If you decide to see each other again, you know your date is interested in you. It’s that simple.

As you get to know each new person, you’ll have an opportunity to “try each other out” and see if the relationship might work. Pay attention to what you’re discovering. As you progress on your dating journey, you’ll be exposed to new types of people and new ideas. Even if a date doesn’t

develop into a full-blown relationship, you’re still growing and learning as a human being, which makes life interesting and exciting.

Breaking “The Rules”

The first and only rule to throw out all your old ideas and rules about dating!

Dating is not about playing games, using clever tactics or making sure you come out on top. There are no winners and losers as far as we’re concerned.

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