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Nov
18
The Why Not Me Movie
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How many times have you wondered why you aren’t successful, fortunate or happy as some other people seem to be? Why haven’t you accomplished this or that? Do you believe you don’t have it in you? I beg to disagree, you do have the potential. This little three minute movie Why Not Me? asks you to examine yourself, and answer Why Not Me? and ask yourself better questions that will create more happiness and opportunity for you. This little movie helps you to contemplate what questions you should really be asking when you ask why not me.
Why not create more happiness and opportunity for yourself? Watch the Why Not Me? movie today.
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Sep
26
We make our own luck
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Luck according to Webster’s dictonary is defined as the seemingly chance happening of events that affect someone. It is also defined as good fortune. Therefore, if you say that someone is luck it means that they’ve had good luck.
On the other hand misfortune is referred to as bad luck or something bad that happens just out of chance.
But is luck really something that happens by chance? To some degree it may be such as a person winning the lottery jackpot, but even then it isn’t totally chance as they must first buy a lottery ticket. The odds of someone winning are astronomically stacked against them; but it is the rare chance of winning large amounts of money that keep people buying lottery tickets. Who wins the lottery is purely driven by random chance. The good luck or the misfortune that accompanies them afterwards of winning the lottery however is not chance but is based upon their actions and attitude.
According to Professor Richard Wiseman, author of The Luck Factor: The Scientific Study of the Lucky Mind, a significant portion of one’s good fortune is not random, but rather due to one’s state of mind and behaviors. He concludes that luck is an artifact of psychology, where a person is lucky not because of cosmic accidents, but because one achieves a particular mindset which precipitates and amplifies “lucky” events.
According to experiments done by Professor Wiseman lucky individuals pay more attention to their surroundings. He has found that “lucky” individuals usually posses many intersecting qualities, including extroverted personalities, a lack of anxiety, open-mindedness, and optimism. Each of these play an important role in one’s luck production.
Bad luck often comes from acts of carelessness, recklessness or willful abandonment of rules. One must be careful where they tread in life and the crowd with whom they associate as well as other behavior in order to avoid events that may be considered bad luck. Bad luck can basically be blamed on a bad attitude about life and looking at things in a pessimistic fashion.
Professor Wiseman found some interesting traits of people who were considered lucky or rather “fortunate” and factors surrounding these people. Foremost among these factors is that the more opportunities one encounters and the more receptive one is to those opportunities, the “luckier” one is. According to Wiseman’s studies lucky people smile twice as often as others, and engage in more eye contact than unlucky people do. Therefore it can be determined that outgoing, extroverted behavior exposes a person to more opportunities due to the increased social interaction. Similarly, open-mindedness allows one to encounter a greater number of unique prospects, and makes one more apt to embrace new opportunities.
Here are four principles Professor Wiseman has come up with to help you increase your good fortune:
Principle One: Maximize Chance Opportunities
Lucky people are skilled at creating, noticing and acting upon chance opportunities. Networking, adopting a relaxed attitude to life, and by being open to new experiences are various ways in which you can do this.
Principle Two: Listen to Lucky Hunches
Make effective decisions by listening to your intuition and gut feelings. In addition, take steps to actively boost your intuitive abilities by, for example, meditating and clearing your mind of other thoughts.
Principle Three: Expect Good Fortune
Lucky people are certain that the future is going to be full of good fortune. Expectations become self-fulfilling prophecies by persisting in the face of failure, and shape your interactions with others in a positive way.
Principle Four: Turn Bad Luck to Good
Employ various psychological techniques to cope with, and often even thrive upon, the ill fortune that comes your way. For example, spontaneously imagine how things could have been worse, do not dwell on the ill fortune, and take control of the situation.
Unless someone suffers from mental illness one’s mindset is entirely within one’s control. Even then a person can make choices that affect them in a positive way. An unlucky person who resolves to change their luck can become more social; they can make a conscious effort to be optimistic and make the best of any situation; and they can be more open to new ideas and experiences. In the final analysis whether a situation is considered good luck or whether it is considered bad luck and how a person arrived at the situation is due to the state of mind that influenced their arrival.
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