Hi,
I think about luck sometimes. Most of the time I feel lucky (even when depressed).
Here is an article on Yahoo two days ago about luck that I ran across.
M.
http://shine.yahoo.com/event/lifesli...lucky-2389062/
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Live a Charmed Life
Lucky people, I found, get that way via some basic principles -- seizing chance opportunities; creating self-fulfilling prophecies through positive expectations; and adopting a resilient attitude that turns
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Open Your Mind
Many of my lucky participants tried hard to add variety to their lives.
Does this technique work? Well, imagine living in the center of an apple orchard. Each day you must collect a basket of apples. At first, it won't matter where you look. The entire orchard will have apples. Gradually, it becomes harder to find apples in places you've visited before. If you go to new parts of the orchard each time, the odds of finding apples will increase dramatically. It is exactly the same with luck.
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Relish the Upside
Another important principle revolved around the way in which lucky and unlucky people deal with misfortune.
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Learn to Be Lucky
One unlucky subject said that after adjusting her attitude -- expecting good fortune, not dwelling on the negative -- her bad luck had vanished.
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