Being Lucky Is A Skill You Can Learn
Those who think they’re unlucky should change their outlook and discover how to generate good fortune, says Richard Wiseman
By Richard Wiseman / Source: The Telegraph
A decade ago, I set out to investigate luck. I wanted to examine the impact on people’s lives of chance opportunities, lucky breaks and being in the right place at the right time. After many experiments, I believe that I now understand why some people are luckier than others and that it is possible to become luckier.
To launch my study, I placed advertisements in national newspapers and magazines, asking for people who felt consistently lucky or unlucky to contact me. Over the years, 400 extraordinary men and women volunteered for my research from all walks of life: the youngest is an 18-year-old student, the oldest an 84-year-old retired accountant.
Jessica, a 42-year-old forensic scientist, is typical of the lucky group. As she explained: “I have my dream job, two wonderful children and a great guy whom I love very much. It’s amazing; when I look back at my life, I realise I have been lucky in just about every area.”
In contrast, Carolyn, a 34-year-old care assistant, is typical of the unlucky group. She is accident-prone. In one week, she twisted her ankle in a pothole, injured her back in another fall and reversed her car into a tree during a driving lesson. She was also unlucky in love and felt she was always in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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By Karol Gajda / Source: RidiculouslyExtraordinary.com
How would you like to be able to condition someone to do anything?
I have a secret to share and I want to apologize for not telling you sooner.
I’m a long time student of mind control.
I’ve been using it selfishly for far too long and I think it’s about time I shared my top secret technique with you and the rest of the world.
Before you get any ideas…
The mind I control is my own. You too can control your mind to magically force yourself to accomplish things you previously thought impossible.
The problem with a lot of people not reaching their goals is they haven’t properly brainwashed themselves.
This isn’t just about positive thoughts and affirmations or writing down your goals.
While that stuff is all well and good it doesn’t produce results like my Mind Control Method. (Patent Pending or something.)
You should know, in advance of learning Mind Control, that failing is normal.
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THE RECESSION has hit, times are indeed hard but if you clear a little room money can still come into your life.
This is the ethos of life coach, sales expert and Feng Shui consultant Marie-Claire Carlyle, who has published a timely book which she claims “has the power to transform anyone into the type of person who is lucky in life, attracts money easily and lives life with a passion”.
How To Become a Money Magnet offers a unique set of steps and exercises to better your financial situation, which are based on the author’s experience as a sales director who ‘never missed a target’ and years spent coaching people in the business, life and Feng Shui concepts which she has found inextricably linked to how we all attract money into our lives.
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By Michael Shermer/ Source: Scientific American
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neuromuscular disease that attacks motor neurons until muscle weakness, atrophy and paralysis lead inexorably to death. Victims of this monstrous malady could be forgiven for feeling unlucky.
How, then, can we explain the attitude of the disease’s namesake, baseball great Lou Gehrig? He told a sellout crowd at Yankee Stadium: “For the past two weeks you have been reading about the bad break I got. Today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.” The Iron Horse then recounted his many blessings and fortunes, a list twice punctuated with “I’m lucky” and “That’s something.”
Clearly, luck is a state of mind. Is it more than that? To explore this question scientifically, experimental psychologist Richard Wiseman created a “luck lab” at the University of Hertfordshire in England.
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By Enoch Tan
Creator of Secrets of Mind and Reality
Many people think that luck is something that is purely random, unpredictable and difficult to control. That is because they do not know what luck really is. When you are able to know the true definition of luck, you can learn the whole science behind this phenomena and gain control over it.
Luck is another aspect of your reality and perhaps the most powerful and important one. The more conscious and aware you become of the elements of your reality, the more of a conscious and powerful creator you will be.
Your luck is your psychokinetic resonance with the environment you are in. Like everything else, luck is an energy. It is something that is quantifiable not in physical but in nonphysical ways. You can quantify it physically only in terms of its physical manifestations in your life. Luck is dependent on time, place and consciousness.
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Jim Rohn, is almost an endless well of wisdom, as witness this passage of his:
“What we ponder and what we think about sets the course of our
life. Any day we wish; we can discipline ourselves to change it
all. Any day we wish, we can open the book that will open our mind
to new knowledge. Any day we wish, we can start a new activity. Any
day we wish, we can start the process of life change. We can do it
immediately, or next week, or next month, or next year.
“We can also do nothing. We can pretend rather than perform. And if
the idea of having to change ourselves makes us uncomfortable, we
can remain as we are. We can choose rest over labor, entertainment
over education, delusion over truth, and doubt over confidence. The
choices are ours to make. But while we curse the effect, we
continue to nourish the cause. As Shakespeare uniquely observed,
“The fault is not in the stars, but in ourselves.” We created our
circumstances by our past choices. We have both the ability and the
responsibility to make better choices beginning today.”
Why Some People Have All the Luck
By Richard Wiseman/ Source: Times of India
http://www.mindpowernews.com/AllTheLuck.htm
I set out to examine luck, 10 years ago. Why are some people always in the right place at the right time, while others consistently experience ill fortune? I placed advertisements in national newspapers asking for people who felt consistently lucky or unlucky to contact me.
Hundreds of extraordinary men and women volunteered for my research and over the years, have been interviewed by me. I have monitored their lives and had them take part in experiments.
The results reveal that although these people have almost no insight into the causes of their luck, their thoughts and behaviour are responsible for much of their good and bad fortune.
Take the case of seemingly chance opportunities. Lucky people consistently encounter such opportunities, whereas unlucky people do not.
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Do you know how to use the greatest principle of mankind?
Brian Tracy calls it “the greatest principle in the history of mankind.”
“The Law of Cause and Effect says that everything happens for a reason. For every effect in your life, there is a cause, or series of specific, measurable, definable, identifiable causes.
“This law says that if there is anything you want in life, an effect that you desire, you can find someone else that has achieved the same result or effect, and that by doing the same things that they have done over and over you can eventually enjoy the same results and rewards.
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Being optomistic
If there is a point religious thinkers have in common, though, it may be optimism. All of them, even the atheist, talked about opportunities revealed by the economic crisis. And universally, they spoke about mobilizing their communities to help others in need.
It’s hard to tell which one — optimism or the exercise of charity — is the cause and which is the effect. Either way, it’s nice to hear.
For more on Being optomisitic!
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