Seven Ways To Create Your Own Luck

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05 August 2006

Seven Ways To Create Your Own Luck

Don't wait for Lady Luck to smile on you - manufacture some magic of your own.

We've all heard tales of incredible good fortune or miraculous escape. The man who won a million dollars on one spin of the wheel or the woman who walked away from a ten story fall without so much as a scratch. But what makes some people consistently lucky while for others luck is just a four letter word? According to new research it seems that Lady Luck might not be as fickle as we think. Luck can in fact be learned.

1. Be Optimistic

Think of the luckiest person you know,. Chances are, he or she is a cheerful extrovert who approaches life in an open and relaxed way. There is a reason for this. Optimistic people understand that they generate their own luck. Moreover, lucky people do not dwell on their past misfortunes.

These fortunate people also know that success often depends on cooperating rather than competing. In this way, their interactions with other people are positive and the opportunity for useful networking is increased. By trusting others, lucky people create more opportunities for luck to find them.

2. Listen To Your Instincts

Lucky people trust others, and they also trust themselves. They follow their hunches and have the courage to act on their intuition. Think of the many people who follow their instincts and struck it lucky as a result. In 1976 Anita Roddick followed her gut feeling and opened a shop selling organic beauty products. She named it The Body Shop and today Dame Anita Roddick's fortune is an estimated $200 million.

3. Be Open To New Experiences

There is a reason why lucky people always seem to be in the right place at the right time. They are open to noticing chance opportunities that might lead to a lucky break. Professor wiseman has conducted many experiments on luck over the past 10 years. In one, he asked a group of people to count the number of photographs that appeared in a newspaper. People who considered themselves unlucky took twice as long to count the photos as those who considered themselves lucky. Why? For the simple reason that on the second page Professor Wiseman had placed a large notice that read "Stop counting, there are 43 photographs in this newspaper."

The unlucky people had failed to see the half page notice because they were so focused on finding all the photos. In other words, they missed random opportunities because of anxiety. Lucky people, on the other hand, are more open and relaxed. They are not afraid to break their routine and try new things. This natural curiosity can lead to an unexpected lucky break. Remember, every chance you take is a chance to win.

4. Learn From Your Mistakes

Everyone makes mistakes but what defines your luck quotient is how you react to them. While unlucky people brood over what went wrong and what could have been, lucky people see mistakes as an opportunity to learn rather than as failures. Lucky people assess what went wrong and then move on. Thee perfect example of how perseverance leads o striking it lucky lies in the humble light bulb. As Alex Rovira and Fernardo Trias de Bes point out in their best seller Good Luck: Creating The Conditions For Success In Life And Business, after more than 1,000 failed attempts Thomas Edison was asked if he felt discouraged. "Not at all" he replied. "Now I definitely know more than a thousand ways not to make a light bulb." Sure enough, not long after that Edison created a successful light bulb and changed the world forever.

5. Don't Point Fingers

Instead of blaming their misfortune on others, lucky people take responsibility for their own actions. When they encounter a set back they consider to what extent their actions played a role, take steps to make sure that it doesn't happen again and then move on. The night before an important audition, three drunks attacked a relatively unknown Australian actor. Even though the attack left the actor looking beaten and tired, he did not allow himself to be a victim. Instead he went to the audition. As look would have it, the part was for a tough looking scarred character and the actor got the part. The film in question was Mad Max and the actor was Mel Gibson.

6. Expect Good Luck

Lucky people expect their future to be full of good fortune. In this way they create self fulfilling prophecies that harness the power of the human imagination to generate good luck and positive situations. As sports psychologists have claimed, visualising yourself as a winner is a surefire way to make your dreams a reality. When Professor Wiseman studied the power of superstition he found that lucky people tended towards positive talismans like four leaf clovers or a rabbit's foot. Unlucky people, however, were more concerned with avoiding bad luck by crossing their fingers and not walking under ladders. In The Luck Factor Wiseman suggests that, by allowing themselves to become anxious about misfortune, unlucky people actually invited bad luck into their lives.

7. Don't Hesitate

When good fortune comes knocking, lucky people recognise the opportunity and act immediately. According to Rovira and Trias de Bes, lucky people do not procrastinate. When they are confronted by a problem or an opportunity they do one of three things: they either act immediately to solve the problem, delegate it or forget about it. In this way lucky people stay focused and save their energy for getting what they want.

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