How to be lucky, or at least luckier.

There are four rules to follow to have luck or to be lucky. They are as follows;

• Rule #1 Optimize your luck opportunities!

I have two stories to share as an example of this rule.
The first is about a man who always complained that he never met any women. His life looked like this; he worked at an all male firm. His limited social life consisted of having a few friends, (guys from work) over to play video games on his new game console. Or to watch Monday night football and that was it!
Finally one of the guys at his work (I guess he got tired of his complaining) pointed this out to him, before you can meet any women, you have to Be where there are women. Long story short, he got out of his rut, joined a health club and an aerobics class, took some dance lessons, and started going to a dance club. And now he does all this with his new wife, Who he met at the aerobics class.

The second story involved a man who would start each and every day with a simple prayer: “Oh please God cut me a break and let me win the lottery!” for five years each and every morning he would go through the same routine, get up, stretch, kneel at his bedside and pray; “Oh please God cut me a break and let me win the lottery!” finally one morning just as he finished his prayer, the room lit up with a blazing light, the house shook, and a voice that seemed to come from everywhere but nowhere said “Would you cut me a break and buy a ticket?!!”

Simple lesson, to be lucky, you have to put yourself in a position to be lucky. Get out of your nice safe rut, expand your horizon, buy the ticket, take a chance now and then, and live.

• rule # 2 Learn to follow your intuition.

The biggest story of chance that comes too mind is the night of March 30, 2005 when 110 people won the second place prize in the Powerball lottery. Depending on the bet, each winner raked in between $100,000 and $500,000 -- costing the lottery association nearly $19 million. Why? They all played the same numbers, numbers that they had gotten from a fortune cookie. Talk about a lucky hunch, for a whole bunch of people. But I hear that same story over and over, how many times have you heard the story of the little old woman walking through a casino, and finding a coin, dime nickel whatever, and dropping it into the slot machine near where she found it hit that jackpot too? Follow those Lucky hunches and learn to listen to your intuition.

• Rule # 3 Expect to be lucky!

I think that this part is the law attraction at work. And it does work, what you think about you bring about. So if you go about thinking that you aren’t a very lucky person, that’s what you will attract into your life not being very lucky. But do you know someone who always says, I am very lucky I win things all the time, and can site off a list of the many times that it has happened? Besides I am of the opinion that it feels a whole lot better, and is a much healthier thinking and knowing that you are indeed a lucky person.

• Rule # 4 Be grateful for all the good fortune that you have in your life!

This is the next step in the law of attraction. I like to say have an attitude of gratitude. When you’re thankful for what you do have in your life the universe seems inclined to bring you more things to be thankful for. And it ties into the second part of rule # 4, I guess I could have made it rule # 5 but I promised four rules and I’m sticking to it. BUT Learn to turn bad luck into good luck once again this is all about attitude, looking on the bright side of life. When life hands you a bag of lemons make lemonade. Be positive, and remember there is no such thing as failure, only differing results. Which brings me to the story of Thomas Edison: and his 10,000 experiments to make a working light bulb. At about attempt 8,000 something there was a small explosion in the Edison lab. As his assistant was cleaning up, Mr. Edison was busy making notes in his log. This kinda upset his aid who complained something about another failure. Mr. Edison promptly informed him that indeed this was not a failure, that they had just discovered how to produce a small explosion and that he had to document the steps leading to it as it may come in handy some day. Success is in the eyes of the beholder.