Discover Your Dreams!

Are you lucky? 

Do you manufacture your OWN luck?  Or do you think the whole idea of luck as an instrument of achievement or success is simply silly to even discuss?  The truth about luck…and the part it plays in your ability to achieve what you want out of life (or even love!) has been debated by many….with most seemingly "smart" types buying into the idea that luck is simply a losers crutch for explaining away WHY they don’t get the sort of stuff they believe they should.

Not so FAST……says Richard Wiseman, a leading UK scientist and a hard core SKEPTIC of many things NOT provable by science. 

(note:  Wiseman is a leading de-bunker of all things psychic, and paranormal) 

In the pretty remarkable series of experiments below, Wiseman seems to show that LUCk is actually a byproduct of attitude. 

How you think….truly CAN influence the sorts of results you see in a whole creative cornucopia of areas we ordinarily measure achievement….and you have to take a closer look at some of the specific experiments (and their surprising results) to truly "get" how this works. 

(I’m a big believer in the idea that you DO attract into your life the sort of stuff you focus on most…and for many of you who agree, this should NOT be a surprise!  But for lots of the cynics, the skeptics and the negative Nellie’s out there, one of your "own" seems to suggest that you CAN create your own LUCK…and to live an extraordinary, and interesting life it’s a good idea to start trying today!)

Check out the full article at the link below….and enjoy!

Take the case of chance opportunities. Lucky people consistently encounter such opportunities, whereas unlucky people do not. I carried out a simple experiment to discover whether this was due to differences in their ability to spot such opportunities.I gave both lucky and unlucky people a newspaper, and asked them to look through it and tell me how many photographs were inside. On average, the unlucky people took about two minutes to count the photographs, whereas the lucky people took just seconds. Why? Because the second page of the newspaper contained the message: "Stop counting. There are 43 photographs in this newspaper." This message took up half of the page and was written in type that was more than 2in high. It was staring everyone straight in the face, but the unlucky people tended to miss it and the lucky people tended to spot it. For fun, I placed a second large message halfway through the newspaper: "Stop counting. Tell the experimenter you have seen this and win £250." Again, the unlucky people missed the opportunity because they were still too busy looking for photographs.Personality tests revealed that unlucky people are generally much more tense than lucky people, and research has shown that anxiety disrupts people’s ability to notice the unexpected. In one experiment, people were asked to watch a moving dot in the centre of a computer screen. Without warning, large dots would occasionally be flashed at the edges of the screen. Nearly all participants noticed these large dots.

Be lucky – it’s an easy skill to learn – Telegraph