How to Improve Your Luck My step-mom sent me an article (quite awhile back) from her Readers Digest magazine on improving your luck written by Richard Wiseman. I was so intrigued by it, that I’ve saved it and read it several times. According to Wiseman, “Lucky people seize chance opportunities; creating self-fulfilling prophecies through positive expectations; and adopting a resilient attitude that turns bad luck around.”Over a period of ten years, Wiseman conducted tons of experiments on what makes some people lucky and others not so. I’ll let you read the experiment itself, (it is actually quite mind blowing) How to Get Lucky
The lesson: Unlucky people miss chance opportunities because they’re too busy looking for something else. Lucky people see what is there rather than just what they’re looking for. To sum it up this is what Lucky people do differently:
“One of the biggest differences between LUCKY people and the rest of the world is Lucky People CHANGE things around, move out of their comfort zones and aren’t afraid of taking RISKS! ~ Eva Starr |