In a popular and influential study that has changed the way most people think about luck, Richard Wiseman gives several newspaper subjects and says to count the number of pictures. People who thought they were unlucky in pre-study interviews took on average a few minutes to comb through the newspaper, counting each picture. People who thought they were lucky only needed a few seconds. How? On the second page of the paper, Wiseman wrote, in two-inch font, “Stop counting. There are 43 pictures. Feeling lucky means learning to be open to finding opportunities for luck.
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Method 1 of 3: Finding Luck
Step 1. Decide what you want and ask for it
Learn to identify and explain your desires, and you will give yourself a better chance of reaching your goals and getting what you want. If you feel unlucky and erratic, without foundation, it may be because you don't yet know what you want to do, what you want in life, and what you can do to achieve it. The first step to going somewhere is deciding where you want to go.
- For some, it may be wiser to start with a five-year plan, while others may start smaller. What do you want today? Do you want to go on Wednesday? Make a daily plan.
- Focus on the things that will improve you the most in life on a deep emotional level, not a superficial one. Saying, "I want to win the lottery" won't help you win the lottery because it doesn't lead to what you want. Learn to say, “I want financial security and feel important.” Big difference.
Step 2. Say yes instead of saying no
Often, the feeling that we are unlucky or unlucky is the result of not giving yourself any chance of success. Getting into a situation thinking it's going to fail is the best way to make that failure happen, just as our parents used to say. Instead of spending time with excuses to avoid difficult situations or other challenging things, find reasons to act, to face and to succeed. Say yes instead of no.
- Remember the last time your friend asked you to go out on a Friday night and you agreed? When you're home and relaxing, it's easy to find excuses to stay home. There's Netflix that needs to be seen! Couches to solve! Next time, try and get yourself out of your comfort zone and have an experience that changes your life. You will be fine.
- Unlucky is a great exercise to find your own way. Opening yourself up and giving yourself a chance to succeed requires also an opportunity for you to fail. Choosing passive over overactive is a way to keep yourself safe from failure, but it throws off the possibility of success as well.
Step 3. See challenges as opportunities for success
Have you just been offered an exciting but intimidating new responsibility at work? Take it enthusiastically. Have you just been asked to speak in front of a crowd? Write a good speech. You've just been assigned to pick up a famous artist at the airport? Take that chance. Treat intimidating moments as opportunities to make your own fortune, not as formidable obstacles.
It may seem trivial, but give it a try. Make a list of fun things before you go to work each day, or do something that scares you
Step 4. Take advantage of good fortune
Unlucky people turn good fortune into accident, use luck as an opportunity to self-deprecate, or to make excuses. Lucky people take good fortune and turn it into a better fate. In the newspaper experiment, Wiseman concluded, the difference between lucky and unlucky is that lucky people lead to benefit, good fortune, and profit, and unlucky people--given the same benefits--are simply ignored.
Step 5. Take charge of the situation
Francis Ford Coppola, the award-winning filmmaker of “Apocalypse Now” and “The Godfather” is best known for his unconventional way of making films, which aren't all too outlandish. When he wanted to make a film, he immediately started making films. No script, actors or studio support? Does not matter. He gets the idea and doesn't let anyone get in his way. Respect yourself enough to give you what you want and your desires should take precedence over other interests.
- Don't say "I wish I was allowed to do this," but say "Who's going to stop me?" Giving yourself responsibility for success gives you the ability to succeed. Give yourself a controlling position, not someone else who should prevent you from getting what you want.
- Don't wait for permission to do something. Do what you want. At work, don't write a project proposal for approval, do a project and show the results. Don't wait for the sketches in your book to collect so you can take advantage of the publisher and write it, just start writing.
Step 6. Stop thinking and start feeling
Lucky people will learn to respect their intuition, hunches, and instincts of courage. If you tend to overanalyze situations and find reasons to feel low, guilty or unlucky, learn to listen to your guts.
Try this experiment: When you make an important decision, allow yourself to make it instantly. Decide with the quickest reaction of your courage and don't give yourself a chance to think again. It happened to you when you didn't like your partner? Break up. Now. You just got the urge to quit your job and want to join an organic winery for a few months? Take the registration paper. Do it
Step 7. Work hard
Coppola still has to make the part of the film that is still wrong. That means hundreds of hours of tedious activity through the jungles of Vietnam, and the mornings of dealing with Marlon Brando's quirks, and hundreds of rolls of film to edit. But he did it anyway. Sow the seeds of good luck vigorously. Hard work.
- Hard work opens up opportunities and benefits because the results will be much better than others. If you work harder at work, your work will be better, and you'll feel luckier when you get it done.
- Try and focus on doing one thing at a time and do it well. On Monday, don't worry about what you have to do on the weekend. Try not to think about what you are going to do during the day. Think about this moment, now, and finish what you started.
Method 2 of 3: Stay Positive
Step 1. Expect good luck
The reason luck happens is that lucky people are in situations expecting success and hoping for a favorable outcome. It's like grandma used to say: If you think it's going to be boring, then it will. If you go to work expecting it to be a tough day, chances are it will be a tough day. If you have an experience when you wished that you would have a chance to succeed, you will make it happen.
Hoping for a favorable outcome will make you focus more on profits and opportunities. Like a lucky person looking at the newspaper, you'll be more focused and looking for the little things that lead you to the game, rather than giving up, because you're feeling unlucky
Step 2. List your achievements, every day
At the end of each day, think back on your accomplishments. Every thing on your list, every goal accomplished for the day should be celebrated with a mental note and appreciation. Don't think about the things you want to get done, or the things you want to do. Think about what you've been working on. Focus on your accomplishments and celebrate them.
Make a list of big and small accomplishments. Cleaning the kitchen without babbling? That's an achievement. Waking up and driving the bus to work? Great results. Be grateful
Step 3. Celebrate small wins and big wins
Take time each day to celebrate what you have accomplished. It doesn't have to be a big party with champagne and cake, but enough reflections on new achievements and old successes that are so important to help you feel lucky.
- Learning to look back every day to test your accomplishments can also help you move forward and organize your life for more achievement. Familiarize yourself with the feeling of getting something productive done every day.
- Make sure your celebration doesn't end up causing a loss. Celebrating a bad day at the office with a long night at the bar won't make tomorrow any easier for you.
Step 4. Stop comparing yourself to others
You don't have any compulsion to achieve the same things as other people you graduate with, you work with, your acquaintances, your friends, your colleagues, or your parents. The only person you should please with your accomplishments is you. Stop comparing your achievements to others and start counting your luck for doing what you do.
For most people, the conceit of a social network can be disheartening. If you're tired of old vacation photos from your roommates and bragging about promotions, block updates, or better leave Facebook altogether
Step 5. Try to go out more often
Learning to bring yourself out can help you make connections and feel good and lucky. Hope that every interaction you have with a stranger, even just five minutes on the train, can be life changing and critical. Maybe a boring person talking to you at the post office will become your best friend in the future. Maybe the barista you meet will be your future boyfriend. Do not miss this opportunity.
Step 6. Be more flexible
Having a plan is a great way to feel unlucky and disappointed. No one feels lucky all the time, or has good luck every day, but learning to flow and at least be a little flexible will help you get the most out of situations you don't want.
Try and stay focused on the bigger picture. If you're a quiet Sunday at home, a day you need to clean up, or spend time with your partner, being interrupted by your friend who needs a ride to the airport, don't overdo it. Celebrate your chance to socialize more with your friends before your trip. Make positive energy
Method 3 of 3: Using the Charm of Good Luck
Step 1. Increase hard work with lucky charms
It may seem like a myth at the time, but the fact that equipping yourself with lucky charms or paying attention to lucky signs can do a lot to help people feel luckier is true. You shouldn't trust your good feelings to fickle symbols or signs, but it's perfectly healthy to feel lucky on any day you've been plagued by beetles, or a day that starts with positive prejudice.
Step 2. Look for lucky insects and animals
According to culture, insects and other animals are often interpreted as bringing bad luck, or luck, depending on the situation. If you're in the wild, keep an eye out for these lucky insects or animals:
- Cricket. Crickets are interpreted as bringing good luck in Europe to Asia, as well as explorers from America who think that crickets bring good luck. In some cultures, imitating the sound of crickets is bad luck.
- Bee. Some people think that a beetle attached to a married woman will increase the number of children in the future, or the amount of money that will be earned. In addition, the beetle is thought to carry a sign of good weather. Don't kill this beetle if it sticks to you.
- Dragonflies, crabs, rabbits, eagles, turtles, dolphins, frogs, bats and other animals are also thought to bring good luck. If you have a pet, bring a photo or amulet of the animal for good luck.
Step 3. Save the lucky plant
Fragrant and pleasant, keeping plants in your home can be a great way to fill your space, as a symbol of prosperity and wealth in most cultures. Different plants will give different luck by bringing prosperity. Some lucky house plants are:
- Camphor, lavender, and jasmine are all great smelling plants you can grow, quickly bringing a sweet smell to your room. Some people think the presence of this plant can help influence your dreams, ease your sleep and lead you to a new lucky day.
- Bamboo is one of the lucky plants, believed to bring wealth, creativity, and health to the grower. Bamboo forest is usually a mystical and scary place in some cultures.
- Basil, rose, and sage are plants that should be protected when grown in your home, or around the house. A hardy plant that survives in many climates, this fragrant plant is useful for cooking and is often used in exorcisms.
Step 4. Put on a lucky charm
You don't have to look for lucky charms -- Take it with you! Having a necklace, bunny paw, or other small piece of jewelry in your pocket can give you a feeling of luck that helps lead to positive action and a positive attitude.
- Carrying an acorn, buckeye, or rock in your pocket is usually done by farmers. Guitar players usually have lucky picks and athletes usually have lucky shirts.
- Whether it brings good luck or not doesn't matter. What's important is that it helps you feel lucky, and influences your attitude.
Step 5. Make a lucky spot
It may sound stupid, but arranging your home according to design principles will help turn your positive and auspicious energies into good qualities. If you feel good about creating a lucky and healthy space for yourself, you will be comfortable with it.
- Don't block the entrance to your house. Access to your home is to enlarge the flow of energy and positivity. Leaving piles of letters, keys, and shoes blocking your way in isn't going to help you feel lucky as you face the world or as you come. Clean your front door.
- Some people think the color of the door will help make your home lucky. According to feng shui principles, south facing doors should be red or orange, while north facing doors should be blue or black.
- Arrange furniture to make space. Stacks of boxes can interfere with positive energy and good luck in your home. Try it, look for boxes to organize your furniture, to create a more capricious space.
Tips
- Being lucky is about having a surprise, or special zing. It's not that you have to be cool, or individual, or that you have to be good at something. Everyone has a talent or talent or quality. You just have to find it.
- That one lucky charm was more than enough. Make sure it means something to you; maybe it's your favorite color, or a gift from your grandmother, or you've had it for a long time. It takes sentimental value too. Money means nothing when it comes to lucky charms.
