Lucky U  Ever Feel like some have all the luck? Now you can be one of the 'some', Luck researchers say.
"Yes" Trish Telesco wrote in her book '365 Days of Luck Through the Year'. "I've seen more than 100,000 people improve their luck just by finding a Good Luck Charm	Luck experts agree. "It's all about the power of positive thinking,” says Boston Psychologist Ellen Dunn, Ph.D. “If you believe something will give you luck, you feel more confident. That confidence inspires you to keep trying to get what you want, whether it’s a promotion or a winning lottery ticket. The more you try at something the more likely it is that you’ll get lucky.”

Here's how to get lucky...
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We all know people who seem to get more than their fair share of the good life: great friends, lovers, spouses, family, homes, money and more. Psychologist Richard Wiseman, Ph.D., Professor of "Public Understanding of Psychology" at University of Hertfordshire, UK, and author of “The Luck Factor” conducted in-depth interviews with hundreds of people to determine exactly what makes some so lucky.
   
Findings of his 10 Year study are inspirational. They verify beyond doubt that you do indeed manufacture, build your own Good Luck. Wiseman maintained that people with uncanny ability to be in the right place at the right time, enjoy more than their share of lucky breaks.
     This eerie readiness has nothing to do with fate or chance he said he discovered. On the contrary, people develop a ‘lucky personality’ through a combination of attitude and behaviors that attracts opportunity. In other words, good luck is an obtainable asset.
     As proof, Wiseman launched a “Luck School” to teach luck, then put his theories to hard-core tests on people who previously considered themselves unlucky. A more than marginal number, over 80% of graduates said their percentages of good luck increased. Many reported finding dream jobs, others were tapped for promotion at by present employers, everyone lived out prior unfulfilled wishes, among them was even a lottery.

     In fact, the before-and-after questionnaires Wiseman gave his ‘class’ clearly showed that the average student’s good luck increased more than 40% as a direct result of training.

Ready to get luckier yourself?
According to Wiseman and other lucky researchers, it’s simply a matter of talking to people when you find yourself in line at a store, waiting at the car wash, or sitting in your dentist’s office. Lucky people often chat with someone who can help them in some manner, like cashing in on a good vacation-travel plan.

When You Talk, Smile, and Make Eye Contact
Lucky people smile twice as much as the unlucky, according to research. Those who share the big “L” not only make eye contact more often, they are three times more likely to exhibit open body language. So it pays to turn toward a person you are speaking with as an indication you are also listening. Uncross your arms, use open-palm gestures, when you do so, you come across as approachable, hence people are more attracted to you. Keep in mind the more people you meet, the greater the probability of a lucky encounter with someone who can have beneficial impact on your life.

Get With Stress-reduction Activity—
Use one of these or choose your own but don’t go without. Use exercise, pressure-squeezing of your closed hands until they involunatily relax from fatigue. Meditate, add notes to a weekly journal-on-your own life, whatever works. Anxious people tend to have very narrow focused attention. When calm, on the other hand, you are more likely to notice good things that fall across everybody’s daily path.
In one experiment, tense people had a tendency to walk right by a $5 bill on the ground. They never saw it. Yet relaxed people found it because they moved more slowly and observed surroundings.

Kick Off Your GOOD Luck, Do Something NEW
Lucky people develop a strong sense of adventure. They love new experiences, different ways of fulfilling everyday activities. It creates lucky opportunities. When embarking on the new, you never know who you might meet or what may occur that can change your future. So go ahead and accept an invitation to a neighborhood block-party, or perhaps a barbecue your boss is throwing. Pick up a ticket to support your local Little Theater fund raiser event even though you really don't feel like doing that, or attend a sporting event.

Let Your Gut’s Voice Be Heard
Lucky people almost always consider acting on their hunches, at least consider it. That’s not to say they’re irresponsibly impulsive however they do pay attention to intuition. The ‘unlucky’ get just as many intuitive flashes-such as, "There’s a great job, maybe mine isn't right for me...” Unlucky people tend to ignore opportunistic luck. So what happens? They end up hating their jobs, their lives, their old friends, unsatisfactory love relationships, then spend a lifetime wonder why they are so unlucky, even cursed.

Anticipate The Best
You’ve met people who actually expect to get the only parking spot on the block, or waltz into a bistro and be seated at a good table without reservations. And guess what? Nine times out of 10, it happens. When you assume fate is on your side, you're likely to exhibit behaviors that promote fate's cooperation. Try being extra nice at the eatery instead of slinking away quietly angry. Expecting better, causes people to responsive to you.

Never Give Up
When things go wrong for unlucky people, they typically feel picked-on, personalize it and give up, says Dr. Wesley Popham Ph.D. "It is sad, since they miss out on so many opportunities. Lucky people, on the other hand, keep trying even when things don’t shift the wind's path toward their direction, at first. Lucky people understand wind changes direction, it’s only a matter of time. A fix-up date goes south, for example, the lucky look ahead to the next with high hopes it will be better. Can-do spirit keeps lucky people feeling optimistic, certain good things are just around the next corner. So they are!


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