St Patricks Day – 7 Steps to get the Luck of the Irish!
March 19th, 2010 | Published in Uncategorized
Isn’t the concept of ‘luck’ a funny thing! A few seconds of bad luck can undo years of hard work, and a moment of good luck can change your life forever in amazing ways.
But is luck really something that is completely random? Or is it something we have more control over than we think. Is it really a case of people having good or bad luck, or is it more the way we view the things that happen to us?
Let’s look at an example – Sally was driving her car down her street when her tyre blows, she loses control of her car, runs off the road, hits a tree and completely smashes the front of her car. If Sally saw herself as an unlucky person she might think - why do these bad things always happen to me? Thinking about how unlucky she was that it happened, how unlucky she is that her car is damaged, how she would have to stuff around with insurance and repairs and so forth. However, If Sally saw herself as a lucky person she would probably think to herself- thank heavens she wasn’t on the highway with lots of traffic doing 100km’s an hour, how lucky she was that she didn’t hit someone else, lucky she didn’t have her kids in the car, lucky that she wasn’t injured, lucky that she was insured, and just get on with what needs to be done to get her car back on the road, thinking herself rather fortunate.
It is the exact same situation, but depending on how she thinks, she is either ’unlucky’ or ’lucky’.
So the good news, as just demonstrated, is that you can become a lucky person instantly just by the way you think. You can also generate more luck for yourself with the things that you do. Lucky people tend to take more chances, or do things that other people just can’t be bothered to do. This in turn generates more chances of new and exciting things happening to them. We have all heard the stories, someone receives an invite to some party and normally they wouldn’t go but on this occasion they did and met their future husband. Or someone going to a job interview for a job they really didn’t want only to be offered another position in the interview which is their dream job. Someone who normally doesn’t enter competitions buys a jar of mayo with a competition on it, enters it and wins a car. I could go on, but I think you get the point.
So if you want to become ‘lucky’, or if you doubt that creating your own good luck is possible, then follow these seven steps for one week. When the week is up, review it and see if you think that your good luck has increased.
- Try and see the positive side of everything that happens, like the car accident. If you really can’t find a positive side right now, then believe that everything happens for a reason and the positive side might not be evident to you for years to come, or that the positive side might be a very valuable lesson that will be a big help to you down the track.
- Write a list of all the reasons why you are already lucky. It can from the big things like owning your own home to smaller things like having food in the fridge. Read it and add to it every day. The luckiest people are the ones who believe they are lucky!
- Do at least one thing you wouldn’t normally do. Go rock climbing, join a social club, do some charity work, get a pen pal, anything that will give you new experiences, give you the opportunity to meet new people, and put you in situations you have not been in before.
- Change your routine. Have something different for breakfast, take a different route to work, take the train or bus to work, wear something you normally wouldn’t, wear your hair differently, stop off and visit a friend on the way home, go for a bike ride after work with someone etc. Shaking things up from your normal routine will generate some freshness and excitement in your day, increasing the chances of new and exciting things happening.
- Take some chances. I don’t mean quit your job and move to the country, but just little chances like entering a competition, accepting an invite, applying for that job you would love but don’t think you stand a chance etc.
- View everything as an opportunity for great things to come into your life. Obviously, if great offers come your way, don’t be complacent or you could miss out on some great opportunities. But also don’t forget the small things that can lead you to great opportunities as well. By just doing small insignificant things (like doing someone a favour by dropping them off at the airport) could start a domino effect where you are just at the right place at the right time for something lucky to happen to you.
- Find yourself a Good Luck Charm! Do you have something that you think is lucky? It could be a five cent piece or a rock you found on the ground, a present someone gave you, or even print this blog and cut out the picture and put it in your wallet for Good Luck! Then believe it will bring you luck!
Happy St Patrick’s Day – and Good Luck!
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