Principle Number Three

The third principle is "Expect Good Fortune." This one is self explanatory. If reality is perception and you expect things to be positive, I believe you will get what you expect to get. What is it I always say? Yep, "Whatever you think, you're right!"

This is a point that all lucky people say they live in their day to day lives. If they buy a raffle ticket, they expect to win. If they need a parking place, they expect to find one right up front... and they do. Lucky people will accept an invitation to go to a party where they will know no one. They will happily do this because they expect they will meet some really great people... and they do!

To take this one step further, lucky people expect their good fortune to continue into the future. This is a a great way lucky people continue to create lucky, happy lives. Since you get to pick, which one do you want, lucky or unlucky?

Principle Number Two

"Listen To Your Lucky Hunches." Have you ever been introduced to someone and instantly had a strong feeling about them? You don't know what it is, but there's just something about this person. That "something" might be positive, and you may really like them. On the other hand, the feeling might be negative. You don't know why, but you just don't trust this person.

Lucky people trust these kinds of feelings in all areas of their lives. If the feeling is good, they'll follow up the meeting with a phone call to meet for coffee or lunch. From there, this introduction could mean a new job, a new love relationship, or any number of other kinds of lucky opportunities. This takes us back to Principle #1, Maximize Your Chance Opportunities. If the feelings were negative, the lucky person would've moved on to someone they felt they could trust and have a positive experience with.

Do you trust your hunches, good and bad? Can you think of a time you felt these kinds of feelings and in hindsight wished you had trusted them? I'm pretty good at this, but sometimes I fall prey to wanting to be polite or nice. What about you?

Principle Number One

The first principle in The Luck Factor by Dr. Richard Wiseman is "Maximize Your Chance Opportunities."

According to Dr. Wiseman, lucky people make the most of every situation they're in. Though at first blush, they'll say it's by chance that these opportunities present themselves, when actually it's the result of lucky people's psychological makeup. The way they think and behave makes them far more likely than others to create, notice, and act upon chance opportunities in their lives. Looking into this further, Dr. Wiseman found that for lucky people, being in the right place at the right time is actually about being in the right state of mind.

When you think you're lucky, you're living every moment of your life looking for something cool to happen. When it does, you think, I am so lucky!

If I've said it once, I've said it a million times, "Whatever you think, you're right!"

The Luck Factor

Dr. Richard Wiseman wrote a book called The Luck Factor. In it, he outlines four essential principles of luck and believes you can increase luck in your life. In the next few weeks I'll share with you the four principles.

Before we do that, let's look at the power of luck and what Dr. Wiseman's research showed people think (the book says the survey was of a wide range of people, but doesn't give specifics in numbers). 50% of the people he surveyed believe they are lucky, 14% believe they are unlucky, and 36% believe they are neither lucky nor unlucky. Both lucky and unlucky people showed incredible consistency in their experiences of good and bad luck. They also had a tendency to believe that their good or bad luck was simply by chance.

The book goes on to show that luck is not chance at all. There is a very specific mindset that lucky people share as well as a common mindset that unlucky people share. I ask you again, are you lucky? Do your life experiences show a life of good times, prosperity, and ease? Tell me what you think and ponder the two quotes below.

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

Lucky Numbers

7 is lucky, 13 is unlucky, can numbers really be good or bad? Whatever you think, you're right! Many believe there is scientific evidence that numbers are important and meaningful.

Today is March 7th and Friday, that would have to make today a great day (I love Fridays)! I believe I have a lucky number, and those of you who know me know it's 52. 52 became my lucky or favorite number more than 20 years ago when it just kept coming up in my life. I went into a Kragen auto parts store and took a number, it was 52. I waited in line for a lottery to buy concert tickets and when the clerk handed out our numbers in line, I was number 52. Checking my coat at the theatre, my coat check was, you guessed it, 52. It happened so often that we made a joke about it, "What number did you get, 52?" "Fiddy-who?" I would reply, and we would sing together "Fiddy-twooooo." When I get 52 on a raffle ticket, I am sure to win the prize.

Is 52 my lucky number because I think it is? Absolutely! It makes me happy as silly as that might sound, and what would life be like if we didn't have silly things to make us happy? Maybe therein lies the secret, we need to be open to being happy about the seemingly silly. Lucky numbers, favorite days of the week, and even symbols that make us smile (mine is cherries), take life less seriously and find something insignificant that can make your heart giddy. If it makes you happy, it suddenly becomes very real and quite significicant!

Intentional Winning on the Radio

I have a twenty-five year history of winning contests and prizes, primarily on the radio.

I have won every kind of prize you can imagine. I have been to New York, Los Angeles, Mexico, and Hawaii, all trips I won on the radio. The travel has been fun, but the everyday prizes are equally rewarding. There have been day trips, skis, lift passes, designer pajamas, power tools, celebrity meetings (including George Clooney!), concert tickets, exclusive parties, movie premieres, CDs, DVDs, meals, and the list goes on and on and on.

When people learn of my ability to win on the radio, they always ask me how I do it. My response was, and always has been very simply, "I intend to." I made the connection that I was very successfully utilizing the power of intention and the law of attraction through winning contests. It was only natural to apply it to all the other areas of my life as well.

March is All About Luck

Do you feel lucky? Do you think you're lucky? Yes or no, whatever you think, you're right!

With New Year resolutions, January was about health and fitness. Valentines Day in February made the logical topic relationships and love, so it makes sense to spend the month of March with St. Patrick's Day talking about luck.

I'm lucky. I always have been, in fact, it never occurred to me that I should be anything other than lucky. For me, luck starts with gratitude and gratitude is an attitude. When you are grateful, you tend to be appreciative of all things that you perceive as good. The more you give thanks for, the more you notice you have to be grateful for. It's a wonderful cycle.

What do you think, are you lucky? Do things seem to go your way? Even if they don't, can you see something good that comes from seemingly unfortunate events in your life? This will be a fun month and hopefully, you will ring in April with a whole new outlook on luck and your life.