How To Be Lucky?

Why do some people lead happy successful lives whilst other face repeated failure? Why are some people are so lucky & others are not?  In short, why some people seem to live charmed lives full of lucky breaks and chance encounters, while others experience one disaster after another.

After 10 years of research, the 4 main principles of luck, explained how lucky people used these to create good fortune in their lives, and described simple techniques designed to help them think and behave like a lucky person.

You also can be lucky it you follow what the lucky people always do. Without realizing it, lucky people tend to:

1. use various techniques to create chance opportunities that surround them. The harder they looked, the less they saw.  And so it is with luck – unlucky people miss chance opportunities because they are too focused on looking for something else.  They go to parties intent on finding their perfect partner and so miss opportunities to make good friends.  They look through newspapers determined to find certain type of job advertisements and as a result miss other types of jobs.  Lucky people are more relaxed and open, and therefore see what is there rather than just what they are looking for.
2. how to break daily routines.  Introduce variety and do some changes from the routine in your life. For example: constantly alter the route to work. A participant use a special technique to meet different types of people.  He had noticed that whenever he went to a party, he tended to talk to the same type of people.  To help disrupt this routine, and make life more fun, he thinks of a color before he arrives at the party and then chooses to only speak to people wearing that color of clothing at the party!  At some parties he only spoke to women in red, at another he chatted exclusively to men in black.
3. how to deal more effectively with bad luck by imagining how things could have been worse. In the study lucky and unlucky people are asked to imagine that they were waiting to be served in a bank. Suddenly, an armed robber enters the bank, fires a shot, and the bullet hits them in the arm.  Would this event be lucky or unlucky?  Unlucky people tended to say that this would be enormously unlucky and it would be just their bad luck to be in the bank during the robbery.  In contrast, lucky people viewed the scenario as being far luckier, and often spontaneously commented on how the situation could have been far worse.  As one lucky participant commented, “It’s lucky because you could have been shot in the head – also, you could sell your story to the newspapers and make some money".
5. make lucky decisions by listening to their 
6. intuition. Just do what you think right when in doubt.

So do what lucky people do to be a lucky.

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