The luck factor

May 15, 2012

Professor Richard Wiseman has spent many years trying to understand why some people seem to enjoy more good fortune than others. Were they born under a lucky star or sprinkled with some sort of magic dust?

Of course not. After many years of experimentation Wiseman boiled it down to four simple things that lucky people tend to do that unlucky people don’t. It’s all about attitude, behaviour and beliefs. Here’s what lucky people do….

1. They make chance opportunities – you have to be in it to win it. If you don’t make attempts to get what you want, you are unlikely to get it.
2. They listen to lucky hunches – There’s a lot going on in our subconscious. Some people have tuned it out and stopped listening to their intuition.
3. They believe in good fortune – because they create a compelling and positive picture of the future they become more persistent and tenacious when it comes to making things happen.
4. They turn bad luck to good – everybody will have some ill fortune in their lives. Lucky people tend to look at the positive things that would not have happened without their misfortune.

The great thing is that these are all really easy to do. Now there’s a stroke of luck.