Luck Is What You Make It

"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.

I believe in the power of attracting what you what, however and in that respect, I believe I am lucky. My accomplishments in life are by no means a result of luck alone but as a result of giving my lucky side attention, I have noticed an increase. It's like anything else, the more we flex a muscle, the more we give power to something, 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.

Lucky people think and behave in ways that create more luck and good fortune in their lives. This is at their very core. This is the same way people who consider themselves money magnets, magnetize money or freak magnets, magnetize freaks. Whether conscious or subconsciously, they are absolutely attracting what they are putting out in the world.

Playwright Tennessee Williams said it best, "Luck is believing you're lucky."

As you sow, so shall you reap. Fundamentally, your thoughts, feelings, intentions, deeds, and expectations, good or bad, right or wrong, will repay you in kind (some think three fold or ten fold). I once heard someone say, "I've never won anything. I'm simply not lucky." This person has very little potential for luck because it is their expectation.

I find it interesting when I hear someone say, 'I'm unlucky in love'. If only they knew. . . they'll never be lucky in love if they continue to chant that mantra. If luck in love is what they want, they have to repeat to themselves that they are lucky from here on out.

As I was researching the topic of love I came across a great blog on the subject. "How to Be Lucky" at http://www.problogger.net/archives/2006/03/14/how-to-be-lucky/ has some 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.

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