Wanna Get Lucky ?

Interesting and somewhat counterintuitive article in Fast Company about making your own luck. Kinda lurving it actually.

Wanna Get Lucky ? 4 Things You Should Do…

1. Maximize Chance Opportunities

Lucky people are skilled at creating, noticing, and acting upon chance opportunities. They do this in various ways, which include building and maintaining a strong network, adopting a relaxed attitude to life, and being open to new experiences.

2. Listen to Your Lucky Hunches

Lucky people make effective decisions by listening to their intuition and gut feelings. They also take steps to actively boost their intuitive abilities — for example, by meditating and clearing their mind of other thoughts.

3. Expect Good Fortune

Lucky people are certain that the future will be bright. Over time, that expectation becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy because it helps lucky people persist in the face of failure and positively shapes their interactions with other people.

4. Turn Bad Luck Into Good

Lucky people employ various psychological techniques to cope with, and even thrive upon, the ill fortune that comes their way. For example, they spontaneously imagine how things could have been worse, they don’t dwell on the ill fortune, and they take control of the situation.

And, if you are asking, I do consider myself a pretty lucky person. In fact, my brother thinks all I am is lucky… ahem (not to mention several of the people I play poker against regularly. ).

(via Matthew Ford’s twitter.)