Lucky tip 1 – Social
network: The more people
you know the better — you’re more likely to have chance encounters that might
bring luck your way. This can be online or by mixing with people in your local
community.
Be open to chatting to the
people who cross your path throughout the day and strike up a conversation
whenever you can. The woman queueing next to you in the Post Office today could
turn out to be the person interviewing you for that new job you’ve applied for
tomorrow.
By joining a social
networking site, you can quickly build relationships with people from all walks
of life who you can turn to the next time you need help or advice.
Lucky Tip 2 – Break with
routine: Take a
different route to work; start your shop in a different part of the
supermarket; listen to a different radio station than usual.
By breaking with how you
normally behave, it helps you become more flexible and open. That way you’re
more likely to first notice and then take hold of an opportunity when it comes
your way.
RESILIENCE
Lucky people tend to see
the positive side of their ill-fortune. They imagine how things could have been
worse and so feel better and more positive about what just happened.
Lucky Tip 1 – Always try to
turn a negative into a positive: One person in Prof Wiseman’s study who
considered himself lucky arrived with his leg in a plaster cast and described
how he had fallen down a flight of stairs.
He said this incident had
made him feel even luckier because he could have broken his neck but had only
damaged his leg.
Lucky Tip 2 – Count your
blessings: Lucky people tend to have a glass half-full mentality.
INTUITION
Unlucky people tend to rush
from one activity to another and surround themselves with noise and
distractions that stop them from listening to their inner voice.
Lucky people often spend
time each day sitting calmly and thinking about what they want from life.
Lucky Tip 1 – Calm down: At least once a day
sit in a quiet room and dwell on the way your life is going. If you have a
problem, take time to explore in your head different ways you might fix it. Ask
yourself whether the approach you want to take is the right or wrong thing to
do and then follow your own advice.
Lucky Tip 2 – Trust your
gut instinct and act on hunches when it comes to people and situations: This is your inner voice
trying to tell you how to act and more often than not it will be right. Lucky
people listen and act upon what their gut tells them — they also use it as an
alarm bell and a reason to consider their next move.
OPTIMISM
Unlucky people think that
the universe has something against them, and have a victim mentality when
things go wrong. They also expect bad luck to come their way. Lucky people are
eternal optimists — they presume they will succeed and. if they don’t, they are
able to shrug failure off with an “it wasn’t meant to be” attitude.
Lucky Tip 1 – Imagine
yourself being lucky before an important meeting or phone call: If you believe in
yourself and have a positive outlook then good luck is more likely to come your
way.
Lucky Tip 2 – Remember bad
things do happen to lucky people but what is important is the way they
react: They consider
unlucky events to be mere bumps on the road of life rather than disasters that
will ruin them. And they believe their next dose of good luck is around the
corner.
