How to improve your luck...and win more

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What is luck?  By Rob Neary

Why are some people lucky and some not? I believe it's all down to your personality and the way you approach life.

If you have ever watched Final destination you will realise that one ; you are way luckier than that! and two , there is a certain element of truth to the feelings that tell us something is wrong.

This instincts or "fight or flee" responses come from our caveman day's and tell us (like a "spider-sense") wether to stay or go.

Take me , i said that i had never won on the lottery ever ,not even 3 numbers! But i got 3 numbers in my second week of playing and then 4 the next draw and then 3 the week after that! However , I didn't get any this week....so it can only last so long.

I am always the kind of person who managers to change job's at the right time and find things that i want in the sale for much cheaper than normal.

There are some fun scientific ways to see how unlucky/lucky you are;

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What makes me lucky? Well i think that if you feel lucky , and believe that everything happens for a reason that good luck will be bestowed upon you! I am also an eternal optimist , but not a push over. I always go with my gut instinct , if it doesn't feel right ,dont do it! If i feel that something is telling me to enter a competition or try my luck , i do it , he who dares wins! . At the end of the day the more times you enter competitions and apply for jobs , the more chance you have!. I use this approach in my music and have currently been picked up by "Rip Curl" and had some music on TV show's etc. Okay there is a certain element of talent involved but you also have to create luck! As they say when one door closes another one opens!

How to be lucky

Being positive can improve luck

It appears that people who tell you to "look on the bright side" are right - according to a psychologist who says it makes you luckier in life. Richard Wiseman has spent eight years investigating why some people appear to be consistently lucky or unlucky. He said it is not intelligence or psychic ability, but a person's approach to life that matters, and he has devised four principles of luck. One is to expect good fortune, which he says is often a self-fulfilling prophecy. The others are :- Maximise your chances of something good happening by creating, noticing and acting on opportunities, Listen to "gut feelings" and act on "hunches" about people or situations, Cope with bad luck and turn it around by imaging how things could have been worse, or looking at what could be done about the problem.

 Luck lessons For the last year, Dr Wiseman, who runs a research unit at the University of Hertfordshire, has run a "Luck School" to see if he could teach unlucky people to be lucky using the four principles. He estimates he has been successful in around 80% of cases. Around 70 people have been through the school so far. The change in luck has continued after people finished the month-long course. Dr Wiseman, who has written a book outlining his principles, told BBC News Online: "Not everything is under control. But a lot more is about your way of thinking and behaving." He added: "I don't think there are any quick fixes. You can't just say 'cheer up'. The whole thing is about looking at living in different ways." And he said: "If people do want to change their luck, now's a good time of year to do it." 'It could have been worse' Tracey Hart says she has had her luck changed by the luck school. Before she took part, she had to cope with five deaths of friends, relatives and pets in close succession. She was prone to accidents and unhappy in her personal life. But since the luck school, she says she has started winning regularly at bingo and on the National Lottery, and been able to have a more positive outlook on life. She told the BBC: "Before, bad luck never came in threes, it came in nines, 12s or 15s. "Now, if something bad happens, I think of it as good luck, as it could have been worse. "It's being positive about everything you do, rather than looking for bad luck to come your way."

"Famous quotes"

"Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves" Larry King

"Luck is believing you're lucky" Tennessee Williams

"Everything in life is luck" Donald Trump

"I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it" Thomas Jefferson

The loser's guide to getting lucky By Professor Richard Wiseman University of Hertfordshire

Why do some people get all the luck while others never get the breaks they deserve?

A psychologist says he has discovered the answer.

Ten years ago, I set out to examine luck. I wanted to know why some people are always in the right place at the right time, while others consistently experience ill fortune. I placed advertisements in national newspapers asking for people who felt consistently lucky or unlucky to contact me. Hundreds of extraordinary men and women volunteered for my research and, over the years, I have interviewed them, monitored their lives and had them take part in experiments. The results reveal that although these people have almost no insight into the causes of their luck, their thoughts and behaviour are responsible for much of their good and bad fortune. Take the case of seemingly 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. Professor Wiseman's formula came too late for some...I had secretly placed a large message halfway through the newspaper saying: "Tell the experimenter you have seen this and win £250." This message took up half of the page and was written in type that was more than two inches high.

Anxiety It was staring everyone straight in the face, but the unlucky people tended to miss it and the lucky people tended to spot it. Unlucky people are generally more tense than lucky people, and this anxiety disrupts their ability to notice the unexpected. As a result, they miss opportunities because they are too focused on looking for something else. They go to parties intent on finding their perfect partner and so miss opportunities to make good friends. They look through newspapers determined to find certain types of job advertisements and miss other types of jobs.

Self-fulfilling prophecies Lucky people are more relaxed and open, and therefore see what is there rather than just what they are looking for. My research eventually revealed that lucky people generate good fortune via four principles. They are skilled at creating and noticing chance opportunities, make lucky decisions by listening to their intuition, create self-fulfilling prophesies via positive expectations, and adopt a resilient attitude that transforms bad luck into good. Towards the end of the work, I wondered whether these principles could be used to create good luck. I asked a group of volunteers to spend a month carrying out exercises designed to help them think and behave like a lucky person.

Dramatic results These exercises helped them spot chance opportunities, listen to their intuition, expect to be lucky, and be more resilient to bad luck. One month later, the volunteers returned and described what had happened. The results were dramatic: 80% of people were now happier, more satisfied with their lives and, perhaps most important of all, luckier. The lucky people had become even luckier and the unlucky had become lucky. Finally, I had found the elusive "luck factor" .

Here are Professor Wiseman's four top tips for becoming lucky: 1.Listen to your gut instincts - they are normally right 2.Be open to new experiences and breaking your normal routine 3.Spend a few moments each day remembering things that went well 4.Visualise yourself being lucky before an important meeting or telephone call. Luck is very often a self-fulfilling prophecy Robs luck results!