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Are your bingo games cursed by bad luck, are your games luckier than most, or are you just plain jammy? Why not try a few mind tricks and see if you can get lucky at playing bingo!

Many people believe we can be born lucky. Some scientists believe we are born with a ‘jammy gene’. Psychologists also spend years and thousands of government grants researching luck. However, little is still known about luck itself, as it is one of the most unscientific research subjects ever undertaken. In fact, the research itself also tends to be somewhat unscientific as luck itself is not an object or form which can be seen or monitored with equipment. Most of the tests undertaken to research luck also provide murky results, as it is not possible to forecast luck or to impose luck upon a person.

What many scientists who research luck have discovered, is that being lucky is more about being confident and seeking opportunities rather than lazing around hoping luck will come your way.

Perhaps this is why many people who play bingo online continue playing for so long. They are playing continuously in the hope that it will provide lady luck with the opportunity to grace their bingo ticket, allowing their numbers to be the lucky ones that provide the giant jackpot prize.

Unlucky people are deemed to be more tense than lucky people. They are said to be the type of people who miss opportunities that come their way. For example, they may go to parties looking to meet a partner and become disheartened if they do not meet someone. Yet in the bigger picture they may have missed the opportunity of meeting new friends. They may also be the type to look in a newspaper for a certain job and yet miss a great opportunity for a career that they hadn’t thought of.

Lucky people get lucky by accepting their breaks and accepting failure without losing enthusiasm for life, while it is said that unlucky people hate things changing and stick with the safer option. Psychologists call it ‘change blindness’. By refusing to accept changes in your life, you are not allowing space to let luck in. So by taking small risks, the fearfulness, tension and routine around your life evaporates.

Again this may be why those playing bingo continue playing. They are accepting a small financial deficit for the opportunity of a bigger lucky financial windfall.

Gut instinct also plays a part in luck. If you feel drawn to a particular decision on instinct then you must stick to it. The subconscious mind can be alerted by visual clues and past experiences which nudges you towards an opportunity. So the next time you apply for that new job, before sending off your application listen to what your gut instinct is telling you.

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Some of us may think that there are lucky or successful people and other who are unlucky or losers, they think that if you were loser then you have no luck and if you were successful then of course you must have luck in all your life matter.

But, what do we mean by luck?

Luck is only the chances law which move through your control over the circumstances, events and people around you. You can move it up or down, increase or decrease the probabilities of reaching the desired results.

As during a certain period either month, year or years, you have made a group of small assignments ( which we will call inputs) these inputs led at the end of this period to certain results ( we will call it outputs).

So there is no lucky person; only someone who achieve many tasks and missions and control over many circumstances, events and people, doing so can raise the possibility of achieving the desired results which was set in the first place.

But, what some may call luck ( like winning a big prize, inherit a wealthy relatives or even winning a horse gamble) is not luck at all, it is only a coincident or chances were the achieved results is not under your control and you have no influence on it, because it is too risky and your chances to win it on the long run is merely zero, despite the fact that luck depends on your inputs and is under your control in every ways.

- Now you have to know how to make your own luck and how to control all the elements around you to raise the possibility of getting the results you want which some may call luck and I call consequences of your work.

- Also, you have to know how to make the possibilities law works for your benefit and not the opposite.

- Finally, you have to be free from randomly and uncertainty.

Here are five steps to do so:

1- You have to prepare a complete study to all the knowledge, skills and possibilities which you need to do a certain job ad apply this study by all means, therefore, you’ll raise the chances of your success in this job.

2- Be sure you can get whatever you want from life no matter how hard and difficult it is, just do everything possible to increase probabilities of getting it, no matter small what you do it may make a difference in future either by success or failure in getting what you want.

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Good luck seems like random fortunate coincidences, but there are things we do that cause more of what we call "luck," both good and bad. Usually, we don’t know we are doing these things, but what if we did? Could we then create luck?

Yes. Actually, there are at least seven specific techniques you can use to generate more good luck. This article is about just one of those techniques, one of the easiest ones. It is simply choosing to recognize the luck you already have, until your mind is trained to do this automatically.

Recognize Good Luck

Once, when I bought a particular car, I suddenly began to see the same model all over. The other cars had always been there, of course, but now I was noticing them, because my mind was "tuned into" that model. Perhaps you’ve had a similar experience. This is how our brains work. We see more of whatever we are looking for or "tuned into", and this is true with luck too. Just look for it, and you’ll see more of it.

Why does "seeing" your luck matter? For two important reasons. The first is that you’ll feel better when you start noticing the ways in which you are lucky. Counting your "blessings" brings a sense of gratitude that is good for your soul, even if you’re not religious. The psychology of this process is real regardless, so this is a brain training exercise for a better life.

The second reason is that when you start recognizing the luck you have, and watching for more, you’ll notice that you "get lucky" more often. It won’t be your imagination. Yes, you will actually have more good luck, and there is a logical explanation for this.

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Bamboo is a mysterious and elusive plant that baffles taxonomists who try to contain it within a botanical class and gardeners who try to contain it within a limited garden space as they learn how to grow bamboo. For many years, bamboo was thought to be a primitive grass but recent DNA testing has shown it to be one of the most highly evolved forest grasses. There are over 1200 forms of bamboo that grow in a broad spectrum of color including the familiar green and gold as well as burgundy, blue and even black grasses. Some varieties of bamboo can grow up to a foot a day and ultimately reach 130 feet tall while the smallest bamboo cultivar attains only six inches of growth.

The first step in learning how to grow bamboo is picking a cultivar and beginning to unravel its many mysteries. While most of us picture tall stands of green and golden canes growing in tropical bamboo forests, bamboo cultivars range from the temperate to the tropical. As well as diversity in cultivar, bamboo has over 1500 documented uses that range from use in construction to the making of acupuncture needles and from agricultural fodder to the making of musical instruments. Until they are cut, bamboos stems are properly called culms and not canes. In India bamboo plants are commonly called the Wood of the poor and in China the” friend of the people. To add to the confusion, a cultivar commonly sold as “lucky bamboo” isn’t bamboo at all but a type of lily from the Dracaena family!

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"Take care of the earth and she will take care of you." � Author Unknown

Mother Nature is a big believer in quid pro quo. Do something nice for her and she’ll do something nice for you. You see quid pro quo isn’t just some evil tool used by lobbyists like Jack Abramoff or mobsters like Tony Soprano.

Actually, Mother Nature is a lot like a Soprano � Carmela, that is, Tony’s wife. She’s nurturing, fair minded, willing to drive you to football practice, and happy to slap you upside the head if you throw garbage out the car window. Being nice to Carmela makes good sense, even if Tony hasn’t figured that out yet after five seasons.

The fact is maternal connections are very important for a healthy, prosperous life, especially when it comes to the mother of all mothers, Ma Nature. Treat her respectfully, and she’ll do good by you. That’s why on this day, Earth Day, it’s a good time not only to consider positive ways you can impact the planet and your friendly neighborhood ecosystem, but also ways you can improve your financial life at the same time.

For instance, a great way to make some extra money and keep Mother Nature’s backyard clean is to invest in companies that do right by the planet. Here are some environmentally- and financially-sound companies, all of which are publicly traded:

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From time to time, I attend exclusive and upscale singles’ networking events just to keep myself abreast with what’s happening in the dating world.

For a long time, my female clients have told me that it’s hard to meet "interesting" men despite all the many singles events in and around the Greater Toronto Area. The women say “Canadian men are really sexually boring" that’s why they’d rather sit by their computers chatting with “foreigners" across the border or far across seas.

I have never dated Canadian men because by the time I immigrated to Canada, I was already happily taken. So last Friday, I wanted to see for myself what the women meant, how I could help them and (if it’s true that Canadian men are really that boring), how I could help these “boring" men and many others who may have this “problem".

Now here is the tricky part, when I arrived at this event, I had a problem telling who is “pure Canadian" and who isn’t. There were men of all shades and races, and except for a few, they all spoke with a “Canadian" accent. I decided there and then that my "research" on just Canadian men wasn’t going to yield any helpful results. But since I was already there, and had paid $75 to get in, I might as well make my time meaningful. So, instead of trying to spot “boring Canadian men", I decided I could try to figure out “the sexually boring" in these men.

The men at these events do not know that I am a Dating/Sexual Confidence Coach (and know exactly how to draw then in like bees to honey), so I get hit on all the time.

These were my findings:

1. Besides the fact that I could not pick out who is truly Canadian, I did not find any particular trait that would make me conclude that all Canadian men are boring. There were some interesting characters and not-so-interesting ones. More not-so-interesting ones, I must say.

This Friday, I had the misfortune of being stuck with this guy — he just couldn’t go away despite my many attempts to ignore him, he followed me around like a puppy. Nice looking, well dressed, smelt good, looked like he went to the gym three times a week, very attentive, even asking intelligent questions and repeating my statements back to me BUT…

He told me he was considered a “nerd" because he always excelled academically and at 38 years old was at the top of his career. He said that just because he was a “nerd" didn’t mean he wasn’t an interesting and romantic guy. So I asked him what makes him romantic and he proceeded to tell me all the romantic things he does with women. They all seemed like really romantic stuff but the way he said them made them so unromantic and distasteful. His voice sounded like an untuned one stringed guitar, moreover with that one string too tight (really irritating to the ear), his face had a smile that looked like he was sneering at me, his body language looked like a soldier on parade and his eyes kept boring into my skull like an electric drill that couldn’t be switched off.

I tried to direct his wide open eyes elsewhere by pointing out interesting objects in the room, he looked at them very briefly and his eyes were back on my face like a miner’s searchlight. I am sure he must have read it somewhere that "women are attracted to men who keep direct eye contact". George Clooney, Clive Owen, Denzel Washington and even 50 Cent are some of the men I have noted never seem to maintain that stupid glare called "direct eye contact" and yet they make even women they’ll never ever meet in person sleepless at night.

At some point I actually felt “pity" for this guy following me around but that is just before he started telling me how women were “stupid" by always falling for the “bad boy" because of the “excitement" bluh, bluh, bluh. I had to really fight the urge to tell him, he is exactly the reason why even thugs, abusers, moochers and their kind have so much luck with women. But I don’t think he’d have gotten the message. Being so “intelligent" all he’d have concluded –like most men — is that I am just another “stupid" woman who falls for “bad boys".

My experience over the years is that men just don’t get the fact that it’s not the “bad" in bad boys that women crave, but rather the sense of “aliveness"; that feeling that underlies the basic human need to feel “alive" that women — and all human kind — look for. Rarely does a person — man or woman — ever fantasize about being in a ho-hum situation or being romanced by a corpse.

2. My interest was in narrowing down what my female clients meant by “sexually boring". I have known men in my lifetime who drive women “crazy" just by their sexual presence alone, and/or by their ability to be so engaging, intriguing and spontaneous with how they played with their “sexual nature" so I had a pretty much good yardstick.

This –like I said — was an upscale event with none of that blatant untutored sexuality that we see so often on TV and elsewhere in the media. The MC had mentioned something about this being a collection of “Self-Actualized" men and women and the organizers had taken time to really find men and women who’d taken time to discover who they are as human beings and as sexual beings. Many of the men and women here were talking “New Age", so I expected to see some level of “comfort" with sexuality, something that showed that these people were over and past the “puritan" era.

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A lucky guy or gal is someone who consistently has good things happen in his or her life. What you may not know is that you can make this happen to you.

Want to be a lucky guy or gal? There are things you can do to become one. In fact, there are at least a dozen luck "techniques" that you can use. I have been using them for years, and yes, they say I’m a lucky guy. Here are two of the most important things you can do.

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When we bought a house for $17,500 from the bank, and later sold it for a nice profit, people said "You’re so lucky!" Yes, we were lucky that we had the cash saved, because they weren’t offering financing at that price. We were lucky that had savings, making it easy to quit our jobs and move to this new town.

A friend who owns a used car dealership had cash flow problems. He could get a couple great cars at auction, but needed $1500. He offered a car as security if I would loan him the money for 10 days for $100 interest. Not only was I lucky enough to make an easy $100, but he was so grateful that he sold me a car for $1,600 that was worth much more.

Preparation puts the odds in your favor. If you were in the situations above, you couldn’t necessarily do what I did. But if you had arranged to borrow $17,500 from a someone, you could have split the profits on the house. If you had a credit card in the second situation, a cash advance fee and interest would have cut your profit in half, but then maybe it’s even luckier to make money with none of your own money.

In whatever area of your life you want to be a lucky guy, start preparing. There are always things you can do to allow for more luck. When you want to be lucky in love, you comb your hair, right? If you want to have good luck as a singer, start practicing, make a list of places you can audition, read up on how other singers became successful. Start getting ready for good luck. 

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Lucky bamboo has become very popular and more widely available in the past few years. You can now find it at most supermarkets, as well as floral shops and online. Not really a bamboo, this intriguing plant is actually a member of the Dracena family, Dracaena sanderiana. A healthy, green plant brings a lively qi into the home and this little plant adds a lot without asking much of you.

One of the reasons it has become popular is that it is so easy to grow. It does not require a great deal of sunlight. In fact you should keep it out of direct sunlight. It can be grown in water or in soil, and requires little care. Most often you will find it “planted” in a small pot filled with pebbles and water. Some people feel the water should be changed every week and others simply replenish the water as it evaporates. As long as the water is clean and clear, simply refilling the container will keep your lucky bamboo happy. Add a dilute fertilizer every now and then to give it a boost. If you have chlorinated or fluoridated water you can use spring, or distilled water to keep your plant healthy. Or simply leave your tap water exposed to the air overnight in a bowl to rid it of these chemicals.

Many plants in the dracaena family are known to have toxic properties that can be dangerous to pets and small children. To be safe it is best to keep them out of reach of tiny fingers and paws. For more information on toxic plants visit the ASPCA web site.

Lucky bamboo can be found as single stalks, bundled together with red string, in fantastic woven pieces that resemble vases and other shapes, and in curly and straight forms. You can create your own curly version if you have the patience. Place your bamboo in a room where there is a single source of light. In a few days the bamboo will start to bend towards the light. Turn the plant slightly away from the light source and it will again bend towards the light. Continue this process until you get the desired curve. If you are curling a number of stalks it might be easier to control if you have each one potted separately until the process is complete.

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The Western concept of luck can be summed up by the way we define it. The definition I found in my home copy of the Collins English Dictionary of luck is:

“1. Events that are beyond control and seem subject to chance; fortune”.

This concept of “beyond control” and “subject to chance” is the key in understanding the Western view to all things lucky or unlucky. To understand any other concept or definition of luck, we need to look at what we think we are, our purpose or fate; what or who are we?

We (in the West) consider ourselves privy to favour by our society, religion and/or philosophy. However we are disadvantaged by limited understanding of what we are. To illustrate, our belief systems are influenced by:

• Our parents

• Our Teachers/Schooling

• Our Society

• Our Culture, Traditions and Locality (Country)

These form our paradigms, the way we see things. Personal paradigms are formed by either accepting information uncritically from an external source, as evidence that satisfies our acceptance or through experience. This in turn affects the way we think about external references and we make decisions based on both the way we think (influenced/guided by our paradigms) and how we perceive circumstances.

To understand the grand plan, we turn to religion, science or philosophy, nothing wrong with that. As a matter of fact, so do our Eastern counterparts. The key difference is what information is being fed to establish early paradigms in our Eastern neighbours that makes the understanding or perspective of ‘Luck’ so different.

In the West we think in terms of rationality, what is logical and reasonable. Things do happen by mere chance, thereby these events are lucky or fortunate. Until recently there is little understanding of the universal connectivity, the inter-relationship of everything.

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A friend of mine who started playing the dollar-a-week lottery 4 years ago seems to have a knack for winning. He has won at least 5 times, each win ranging from $200 to $1000.

I can’t help but feel a bit envious. I can explain away his good fortune by saying that he has more luck than I. But when I compare his situation with mine, I see a different story. His luck comes with a perfectly rational explanation—he plays the lottery every week whereas I am, at best, a once-a-year player.

“Same number each week,” is his motto. ”You can’t win,” he tells me “if you don’t throw the dice.”

“Do you ever think that you’re just throwing good money away?” I ask.

“Of course I do,” he replies, ”but I avoid that kind of thinking. If I allow it to become a mindset, I ‘d never buy a ticket.”

So what is the reason behind his luck?

Engagement. He takes the time to talk himself out of doubt and makes the effort to turn the tide in his favor. He takes the initiative to be engaged. And that is perhaps all luck is—the willingness to do all you can to change your destiny.

Azriela Jaffe, author of “Create Your Own Luck” (2000), attributes luck to toxic-free thinking. Negative beliefs prevent you from seeing the solution to your problems, she suggests. Opening your mind allows you to move beyond the obstacle by finding your way around it. Toshu Fukami, a highly successful Japanese businessman who wrote “Lucky Fortune”(1997) to explain the whys and wherefores of his success, makes a similar association between good fortune and positive thinking. Lucky people, he says, are those who have a knack for “finding something to their advantage in any given situation.’ Both writers define luck as a state of mind, an attitude that anyone can develop.

If this is so, what can you do to attract luck into your life?

1. Stay Positive

Staying positive is more than cultivating happy thoughts; it is knowing what gives you joy and purpose and going for it. Lucky people are able to find out what their purpose in life is and the meaningful activities that help create the “being” they wish to become. They are willing to do everything they can to realize their vision without developing a jaundiced view of themselves and their world. Fukami observes that lucky people have a very positive core of being; they refuse to be depressed about failures or obstacles. Science Fiction writer Holly Lisle says it all:”If you will not put yourself in a position to fail, you cannot succeed.”

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