Hello, lucky people!
I’d never thought much about luck until I came across the work of Richard Wiseman and his book The Luck Factor.
When I realized luck can be learned, it changed everything and since then I’ve been thinking deeply and researching what makes for a lucky life.
My goal with this project is to redefine and broaden our definition of luck.
Luck is more than random chance.
Luck is more than an outside force that brings adversity or fortune.
Luck is more than hard work.
Luck is what happens when you add a set of buildable skills into your life. Even adding in one of these buildable skills increases the odds of lucky events.
Increasing our right-brain awareness
Creating and noticing chance opportunities
Tapping into intuition
Creating upward spirals of positive self-fulfilling prophecies
Becoming resilient
Cultivating positivity
Showing up (This is the newest practice I’ve added to the framework. I’ll be exploring it more in future posts.)
Practicing any or all of these skills puts us in a position to experience luck.
Luck is what happens when we’ve been doing our part and our opportunities become more than the sum of the parts.
Luck is the magic that brings things together in ways we couldn’t have orchestrated on our own.
But in order to experience luck, we need to put the Lucky Practices into place in our lives.
I can almost guarantee that anyone you’ve ever seen as lucky, has had one or more of these practices in their life, possibly without even realizing it.
Now that the practices are identified, imagine what will happen if we put them all into practice in our own life!
When we practice luck, we can’t control specific outcomes, but we do stack the deck in favor of experiencing a fuller, richer, deeper life.
One last thing: I do have one hard-fast rule about luck that you don’t want to miss.
What do you think?
How do you think about luck? How does this idea of broadening the definition land with you?