This is the Secret to Having Luck in Everyday Life
Hint: It’s not just a coincidence
I have a friend who is extremely lucky. Everywhere he goes, everything he tries to do, always turns out perfectly, because, even against the odds, some external factor always interferes and makes things work out just the way he wants them to.
On the other hand, I am a person who never has things her way. We are even joking about it constantly. It’s like my life blindly follows Murphy’s law:
Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.
And I’ve been thinking about it a lot. One further thing I constantly remind myself of is something that one of my university professors always used to tell us — that if something in our lives is going according to plan on the first try, there is definitely something wrong.
But then I kept thinking… if this Murphy guy and my professor were right, how come that my friend always has luck in everything? If we take both thoughts literally, it would turn out that no one in the entire universe ever has the chance of getting lucky. So the big question was: “How to have more luck?”
Naturally, I started observing the way I was behaving, and the way my “lucky” friend does. And what I noticed was that we have completely opposite ways of approaching anything in life. For example, I saw a job post and I was the perfect candidate for it. But I didn’t apply, because I already saw 32 people have applied in one single day. Little did I know none of them met the criteria and that I would’ve been the perfect candidate.
Well, on the other hand, my friend saw this internship opportunity that he wasn’t qualified for. He went for it anyways. And, you guessed it right, he got it! Immediately, we all said, “But of course, luck follows you everywhere!”
But today, I don’t think that luck followed him. I am sure the real reason is that he lets it get into his life by not rushing it away and actually giving it a chance. By being optimistic.
Luck is a mindset.
And I want to train mine the “lucky” way.
Will you, too?
