![]() You don’t have to ignore all the bad that is happening (that’s toxic positivity) or have unrealistic expectations or ambitions for the future. When you believe that better times are just around the corner, you are more likely to keep going and triumph over whatever adversity has befallen you.īeing optimistic is not the same as being delusional. Optimism is also an essential ingredient in the resilience we just spoke about. Without that hopeful outlook, all risks will seem too big and all potential rewards will seem inadequate. Optimism helps you to be bold and to take the risks that are required to thrive in your life and get the good luck you are seeking. It helps you to connect the dots and uncover ways in which X or Y can benefit you – ways that you would not notice if your mind is mired in negativity and pessimism. Optimism helps you to see the opportunities that cross your path, even when they may not be immediately obvious. Having a little faith that your future is going to be good does wonders for the mind and spirit. In order to be lucky, it helps to feel lucky. If you can get through the hard times using sheer persistence and willpower, you will emerge stronger and more able to cope with similar situations in future. However bad things get, you still have a future ahead of you a future that you have a say in. Instead, you have to see adversity for what it is – temporary. If you give up in the face of a challenge, you stop being proactive and start being a passive passenger in your life. That’s just how fortune works.īut how you respond to these difficulties matters when it comes to attracting good luck. Fortune will go against you and bad things will happen. You will always face some adversity in life. How will you get from where you are now to where you want to be? What are the steps you have to take to tip the odds of chance in your favor and improve your luck? This is why, as part of your proactive approach to life and the risks this will involve, it is beneficial to have at least some plan in place. If you try to jump into an industry in which you have zero knowledge or experience, it’s a far bigger and less calculated risk to take. If that business involves something that you have knowledge, experience, and qualifications in, then it might be considered a reasonable risk to take. Not just any risks, but what you might call ‘good risks’ or ‘calculated risks.’ These are risks with a far greater upside than their potential downside.įor example, let’s say you quit your job to start up your own business. Part of being proactive does, of course, involve taking risks. This neatly summarizes the proactive approach you can take to luck in your life. “The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.” Now that we’ve discussed what luck actually is, let’s turn our attention to some of the things you can do to increase and improve yours.įive-star general of the US Army Douglas MacArthur is quoted as saying: That choice meant that fortune and chance could come together to cause the meeting with your friend. It’s also a matter of chance because if they take that journey every so often and you get on this bus every day, you would eventually be on the same bus at the same time.īut it can also be considered good luck because you have made the choice to take a bus to work instead of driving a car or riding a bike. It’s partly good fortune because you don’t have control over whether and when they get on the bus. Or let’s imagine you bump into an old friend on the bus to work. Then the bad fortune of a heavy rain shower – perhaps more extreme than you would usually expect – tipped the odds into a certainty. You didn’t do something that you should have done and this meant that the chance of a leak occurring increased over time. Or, maybe the leak occurred because you neglected to take care of a dilapidated section of roof that you knew needed to be repaired. Without knowing about the damage, you couldn’t do much to prevent the leak. ![]() Perhaps something caused unseen damage to a tile or gutter that then led to water getting in. Is that just bad fortune? Is it the result of chance? Luck is something that you have some say over.Ĭonsider a leak in your roof. Luck is the intersection of both chance and fortune. Luck can be thought of as doing something (or not doing something as the case may be) that stacks the odds of chance for or against you, and makes fortune (good or bad) somewhat more likely.
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