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How lucky do you feel?

 Professor Richard Wiseman, author of the “Luck Factor” starts his book with a couple of very interesting quotes:

“ If an unlucky man sold umbrellas, it would stop raining; if he sold candles, the sun would never set; and if he made coffins, people would stop dying.” Yiddish saying 

“Throw a lucky man in the sea and he will come up with a fish in his mouth” Arab proverb 

Professor Wiseman has done extensive research to discover the differences between the lives of lucky and unlucky people and he reports the following four factors to be  essential:

Page 27, “The Luck Factor” by Richard Wiseman

1.     Lucky people constantly encounter chance opportunities. They accidentally meet people who have a very beneficial effect on their lives and come across interesting opportunities in newspapers and magazines. In contrast, unlucky people rarely have these sorts of experience, or…….they meet people who have a negative effect on their lives.

2.     Lucky people also make good decisions without knowing why. They just seem to know when a business decision is sound or someone shouldn’t be trusted. Unlucky people’s decisions tend to result in failure and despair.

3.     Lucky people’s dreams, ambitions and goals have an uncanny knack of coming true….unlucky people are the exact opposite…their dreams and ambitions remain little more than elusive fantasy.

4.     Lucky people also have an ability to turn their bad luck into good fortune. Unlucky people lack this ability and their bad luck causes nothing but upset and ruin. 

Life coaching is one way of discovering HOW and WHY some people manage to create their own good luck and others fail to notice luck when it is banging on their doors!

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