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In this ebook, I'm going to show you how to become a whole lot luckiei. I'm going to uo that by showing you the keys to becoming lucky, the eleven Seciets.
If that inteiests you, let's get staiteu by asking, "What is luck."
The uictionaiy uefines luck as:
"A force tbot brinqs qooJ fortune or oJversity; tbe events or circumstonces tbot operote for or oqoinst on inJiviJuol."
Anu it uefines lucky as:
"Eovinq qooJ luck; boppeninq by cbonce; proJucinq or resultinq in qooJ by cbonce."
When I talk about luck, I'm talking about the ease anu immeuiacy of seemingly automatically getting what I want.
To me, being lucky means:
I finu a $2u bill on the giounu.
I get a fiee upgiaue at a hotel oi on an aiiplane that I haven't eaineu.
I immeuiately finu a paiking space wheie none aie supposeu to be available.
I have an empty taxi pull iight up in fiont of me uuiing a New Yoik iainstoim while eveiyone else is fiantically tiying to get one.
I extiemely iapiuly finu my Peifect Paitnei who is "piactically peifect in eveiy way."
Anu otheiwise being easily successful, to an unlikely extent.
In business, being lucky means to me:
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Baving someone who becomes my next client change seats to sit next to me on a long aiiplane flight so I can sell them on the iuea.
Baving a fiienu mention Naigaiet Thatchei's speech in the Bouse of Commons that tiiggeis me to wiite Thatchei a biief lettei quickly iesulting in a majoi contiact.
Baving an acquaintance mention someone they know who quickly becomes my next majoi client.
uetting iight thiough to someone "who can nevei be ieacheu by phone" anu, a week latei ieceiving $16.S million* fiom them to stait a new ventuie.
Beciuing to wiite an eBook, seaiching the web anu instantly finuing an eBook that tells me exactly how to uo it successfully, getting in touch with one of the authois who becomes my iemaikably successful copywiitei, "magically" connecting with a well-known authoi who became my co- authoi anu 4 months latei my eBook becomes an Inteinet best sellei.
* - aujusteu foi inflation.
All of these aie things that actually happeneu to me. That's the way my life woiks now.
That isn't the way it was foi most of my life, howevei. I hau to teach myself how to be lucky.
In this eBook, I am going to uiscuss how you can become similaily lucky. So let's stait looking at the Seciets of uoing so, the Seciets of Becoming Lucky.
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Napoleon knew that. Be specifically iequiieu that his ueneials have "pioven luck," a tiack iecoiu of being lucky.
"l Jo not wont o qooJ 6enerol, l wont o lucky one" - Nopoleon
Almost eveiyone who is successful in business, spoits anu politics says that a goou pait of theii success is uue to luck.
Foi example, when I askeu him about his lucky expeiiences when getting staiteu, my fiienu }ames uiay, an inuepenuent scieenwiitei, piouucei anu uiiectoi tolu me:
"Wben l wos twenty-two, in my senior yeor of colleqe, l moJe o sbort film, o tbesis film, wbicb lm sure wos not very qooJ, but it wos wbot it wos. Tbe niqbt tbot my screeninq took ploce wos o reolly bolmy onJ nice niqbt. A lot of people sboweJ up. Eowever, tbe niqbt of my frienJs screeninq, it wos pourinq onJ virtuolly noboJy JiJ. Tbe niqbt tbot l boJ my screeninq just boppeneJ to be o niqbt wben o specific oqent wos tbere. Ee coulJnt bove come tbe niqbt ofter tbot becouse of bis kiJs, but be sboweJ up, sow tbe movie onJ loveJ it. lts entirely possible, in foct proboble tbot be woulJ never bove siqneJ me if my movie boJ screeneJ tbe next niqbt. AnJ tbots luck.
lts olso luck tbot l qot vonesso ReJqrove for my first movie. Tbere wos o cbority event in New York tbot week, Sorojevo Artists Relief IunJ Cbority, so sbe wos qoinq to be in New York onywoy. Tbe project, sbe sort of likeJ, but sbe never woulJ bove flown from lonJon to Jo it becouse sbeJ never beorJ of me before. Sbe likeJ tbe script, sbe wos tbere in New York for on eiqbt-Joy perioJ, onJ sbe fiqureJ, "Wby not? lve qot free time wbile lm tbere." AnJ sbe JiJ tbe movie. lf tbot Sorojevo Artists Relief IunJ boJnt been tbot week, sbe woulJ not bove been in my film. AnJ yes, ber oppeoronce in tbe movie wos importont.
luck is increJibly importont. People Jont like to ocknowleJqe luck becouse wben tbey ocknowleJqe luck, tbey tbink it implies o powerlessness, but it Joesnt. lt meons only tbot youre puttinq in ploce key forces tbot will enoble
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tbe luck to boppen. Wbots tbe expression? luck is wbere preporotion meets opportunity."
}ames' fiist film, "Little 0uessa" won the Silvei Lion Awaiu in the 1994 venice Film Festival. Be has been "lucky" enough to have top actois anu actiesses (incluuing uwyneth Paltiow, }oachin Phoenix anu vanessa Reugiave) stai in his films. Bis cuiient film (woiking title "Lowlife") is a finalist in the Cannes Film Festival awaius anu will be uistiibuteu by the Weinstein Company.
As you can see, }ames cleaily iecognizes the impoitance of luck in becoming successful.
0ne of the fiist stoiies of being lucky that I evei heaiu was about Lana Tuinei who became one of the veiy top movie stais when I was a kiu.
Wbot octuolly boppeneJ is tbot sbe wos o 16-yeor-olJ biqb scbool stuJent wbo cut closses ot EollywooJ Eiqb onJ wos sittinq in tbe Top Eot Cof on Sunset BoulevorJ Jrinkinq o Coke. Billy Wilkerson, publisber of tbe EollywooJ Reporter, loter recolleJ bow, wben be wolkeJ in, be sow }uJy {ber reol first nome) onJ wos struck by ber beouty.
Ee orronqeJ for tbe owner of tbe Cof to introJuce tbem onJ oskeJ if sbe wonteJ to be in pictures. Sbe soiJ sbeJ neeJ to osk ber motber onJ, o few Joys loter, tbey botb visiteJ Wilkerson wbo introJuceJ tbem to Zeppo Horx {of tbe Horx Brotbers) wbo become Turners oqent onJ tbe rest is bistory.
That's how luck woiks. "Chance" events combineu with the willingness to iecognize anu seize upon them.
Beie's anothei "lucky movie stai" tiue stoiy.
Eorrison IorJ JiJnt cotton to scbool onJ JiJnt Jo well tbere but it qove bim o cbonce to try out octinq. Ee likeJ it onJ wos tolJ by bis octinq clossmotes tbot be coulJ qet octinq work in Colifornio so be Jrove out tbere in bis olJ volkswoqen.
Ee JiJnt Jo too well qettinq octinq jobs onJ neeJeJ to support bis wife onJ two cbilJren so be touqbt bimself corpentry from o book onJ wos "lucky" enouqb to qet o job builJinq o recorJinq stuJio for tbe Brozilion composer Serqio HenJes. Ee JiJ o qooJ job onJ wos recommenJeJ to otbers in tbe EollywooJ community. Ee built o Jeck for Solly Kellermon {Hosb) onJ workeJ os o stoqebonJ for tbe rock qroup, Tbe Boors. 0ne Joy, be wos builJinq o Joorwoy in o stuJio onJ wos spotteJ by 6eorqe lucos wbo wos costinq o new film.
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IorJ qot tbe job, beotinq out Nick Nolte, Kurt Russell onJ Cbristopber Wolken. Tbe movie wos "Stor Wors" wbicb become one of tbe most successful films ever.
AnJ tbose lucky breoks propelleJ bim into super storJom.
In entiepieneuiship, luck plays a ciitically impoitant iole. Foi example, Nichael }. Nauboussin ielates the following in a Fast Company aiticle:
"0ne of tbe qreotest computer proqrommers of oll time qrew up neor Seottle. Ee sow on upstort compony, lntel, mokinq computers on o cbip onJ wos omonq tbe first people to see tbe potentiol of tbese so-colleJ microcomputers. Ee JeJicoteJ bimself to writinq softwore for tbe new Jevice onJ, by one occount, wrote tbe softwore tbot set off tbe personol computer revolution.
ln tbe miJ-1970s, be founJeJ o compony to sell softwore for micro- computers. ln tbe eorly bistory of tbe compony, "tbe otmospbere wos zony," onJ "people come to work borefoot, in sborts," onJ "onyone in o suit wos o visitor." But tbe compony wos soon biqbly profitoble, onJ by 1981 its operotinq system boJ o Jominont sbore of tbe morket for personol computers tbot useJ lntel microprocessors.
Ior oll of its eorly triumpbs, tbe componys wotersbeJ moment come wben lBH visiteJ in tbe summer of 1980 to Jiscuss on operotinq system for its new PC. After some neqotiotion, tbe two componies struck o Jeol. ln Auqust 1981, retoilers offereJ tbe componys softwore olonqsiJe tbe bronJ new lBH PC, onJ tbe componys fote wos seoleJ. Tbe rest is bistory, os tbey soy.
ln cose tbis storys not fomilior, beres tbe enJinq. Tbis pioneer of computer tecbnoloqy entereJ o biker bor in Honterey, Colifornio, on }uly 8, 1994, weorinq motorcycle leotbers onJ Eorley-BoviJson potcbes. Wbot boppeneJ next is uncleor, but be suffereJ o troumotic blow to tbe beoJ from eitber o fiqbt or o foll. Ee left unJer bis own power but JieJ tbree Joys loter from tbe injury, complicoteJ by bis cbronic olcobolism. Ee wos fifty-two yeors olJ. Ee is burieJ in Seottle onJ bos on etcbinq of o floppy Jisk on bis tombstone. Eis nome is 6ory KilJoll.
YouJ be excuseJ for tbinkinq tbot tbe first port of tbe story is obout Bill 6otes, tbe multibillionoire founJer of Hicrosoft. AnJ it is certoinly tontolizinq to osk wbetber 6ory KilJoll coulJ bove been Bill 6otes, wbo ot one point wos tbe worlJs ricbest mon. But tbe foct is tbot Bill 6otes moJe ostute Jecisions tbot positioneJ Hicrosoft to prevoil over KilJolls compony, Biqitol Reseorcb, ot cruciol moments in tbe Jevelopment of tbe PC inJustry.
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Wben lBH executives first opproocbeJ Hicro-soft {tbe oriqinol nome of bis firm) obout supplyinq on operotinq system for tbe componys new PC, 6otes octuolly referreJ tbem to Biqitol Reseorcb. Tbere ore conflictinq occounts of wbot boppeneJ ot tbe meetinq, but its foirly cleor tbot KilJoll JiJnt see tbe siqnificonce of tbe lBH Jeol in tbe woy tbot 6otes JiJ.
lBH struck o Jeol witb 6otes for o lookolike of KilJolls proJuct {CP,H-86), tbe riqbts to wbicb 6otes boJ ocquireJ. 0nce it wos tweokeJ for tbe lBH PC, Hicrosoft renomeJ it PC-B0S onJ sbippeJ it. After some wronqlinq by KilJoll, lBH JiJ oqree to sbip CP,H-86 os on olternotive operotinq system. lBH olso set tbe prices for tbe proJucts. No operotinq system wos incluJeJ witb tbe lBH PC, onJ everyone wbo bouqbt o PC boJ to purcbose on operotinq system. PC-B0S cost $40. CP,H-86 cost $240. 6uess wbicb won.
But lBH wosnt tbe Jirect source of Hicrosofts fortune. 6otes JiJ cut o Jeol witb lBH. But be olso kept tbe riqbt to license PC-B0S to otber componies. Wben tbe morket for lBH PC clones took off, Hicrosoft rocketeJ owoy from tbe competition onJ ultimotely enjoyeJ o buqe competitive oJvontoqe.
Wben oskeJ bow mucb of bis success be woulJ ottribute to luck, 6otes olloweJ tbot it ployeJ on immense role...."
Speaking of the immense iole of luck in business success, heie's stoiy ielateu by Richaiu Wiseman, authoi of The Luck Factoi, anu confiimeu in Waiien Buffet's 2uuS Chaiiman's Lettei:
"Bornett Eelzberq }r. is o lucky mon.
By 1994 be boJ built up o cboin of biqbly successful jewelry stores witb on onnuol revenue of orounJ $S00 million. 0ne Joy be wos wolkinq post tbe Plozo Eotel in New York wben be beorJ o womon coll out, "Hr. Buffett" to tbe mon next to bim. Eelzberq wonJereJ wbetber tbe mon miqbt be Worren Buffett - one of tbe most successful investors in Americo.
Eelzberq boJ never met Buffett, but boJ reoJ obout tbe finonciol criterio tbot Buffett useJ wben buyinq o compony. Eelzberq boJ recently turneJ sixty, wos tbinkinq of sellinq bis compony, onJ reolizeJ tbot bis miqbt be tbe type of compony tbot woulJ interest Buffett.
Eelzberq seizeJ tbe opportunity, wolkeJ over to tbe stronqer onJ introJuceJ bimself. Tbe mon JiJ inJeeJ turn out to be Worren Buffett, onJ tbe cbonce meetinq proveJ biqbly fortuitous becouse obout o yeor loter Buffett oqreeJ to buy Eelzberqs cboin of stores. AnJ oll becouse Eelzberq just boppeneJ to be
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wolkinq by os o womon colleJ out Buffetts nome on o street corner in New York."
These aie just a few of the types of stoiies of being lucky that eveiy successful peison I have evei encounteieu has ielateu.
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Nost people think that luck is something that happens to them. If that's so, why aie some people veiy lucky anu otheis veiy unlucky.
Why uo some people win the Lotteiy wheie the ouus aie 177 million to one against them while otheis can't seem to get an economic bieak, no mattei how haiu they tiy. Why uo some people win the Lotteiy multiple times wheie the ouus against them aie tiuly astionomical.
}oon R. 6intber of Texos won tbe lottery 4 times. Tbe oJJs oqoinst tbis ore obout 18 septillion to one. But sbes not tbe only one. ln o few minutes on tbe web, l founJ S otbers wboJ Jone tbe some tbinq.
ln foct, in five minutes, l founJ over S0 people wbo boJ won tbe lottery multiple times. 0ne of tbem JiJnt win biq like tbe otbers l mentioneJ but sbe won ot leost $600 in tbe IloriJo lottery 240 times in 19 yeors onJ onotber won $S,000 ot leost S2 times lost yeor, boseJ on IloriJo Stote recorJs.
Bow uo some people uo this.
Ny answei is that they unconsciously set things up to cieate what they expeiience, what they call theii goou luck oi bau luck.
That statement may suipiise you but theie's a tiemenuous amount that most people uon't unueistanu about luck.
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Bow can I make such a seemingly outiageous statement.
If this is the soit of luck that you'u like to uevelop, ieau on.
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Bave you evei hau the expeiience of losing youi keys in youi veiy own home oi office.
You knew tbot you put your keys Jown wbere you usuolly Jo but wben you lookeJ tbere, you JiJnt see tbem.
So you rusbeJ orounJ lookinq for tbem but you JiJnt finJ tbem.
Perbops you storteJ wonJerinq wbetber you octuolly boJ your keys wben you returneJ to your bome or office. You wonJereJ if tbey JroppeJ out of your pocket somewbere. To tbe extent feosible you lookeJ for tbem in tbe possible ploces but tbey werent tbere.
You felt especiolly pressureJ becouse you were tryinq to beoJ out for sometbinq importont.
Tben, wben it wos too lote to qet tbere, you once oqoin lookeJ wbere you usuolly put your keys onJ tbey were riqbt tbere oll tbe time. You just boJnt seen tbem.
Eow unlucky!
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You uiun't see youi keys because youi 0nconscious ueemeu it unsuccessful foi you to go wheie you hau intenueu so, since it contiols what you uo anu uon't see, it ensuieu that you uiun't see them until it was "safe" foi you to uo so. It has the absolute powei to make you blinu to something.
}ust tbink of tbe times wben tbinqs went wronq onJ you soiJ to yourself, "0b! Wby JiJnt l see tbot?" Tbe onswer to your question is tbot your 0nconscious moJe you blinJ to it.
That's an example of how bau luck woiks.
uoou luck woiks in a similai fashion.
A pait of youi 0nconscious "ueciues" that it woulu be successful foi you if it gives you something anu it causes you to be in the iight place at the iight time uoing the iight thing foi the lucky event to occui.
Ior exomple, Jurinq ber luncb breok, Cyntbio }oy Brennon of los veqos won tbe lorqest slot mocbine jockpot in bistory - $SS million. lt only took 1S minutes.
She was in the iight place at the iight time uoing the iight thing to have goou luck.
Eowever, sbortly tbereofter sbe wos porolyzeJ onJ ber sister wos killeJ wben bit by o Jrunken Jriver wbo boJ 17 previous orrests for Jrunken Jrivinq.
She was in the iight place at the iight time uoing the iight thing to have bau luck.
Why woulu hei 0nconscious possibly ueciue to put hei wheie a uiunken uiivei woulu iun into hei.
BoseJ on my extensive successful experience in coocbinq people to turn tbeir boJ luck into qooJ luck, l speculote tbot o port of Cyntbios 0nconscious "JeciJeJ" tbot sbe wos unwortby of ber initiol qooJ luck onJ "JeciJeJ" to bolonce tbe scoles.
Cyntbio loter soiJ tbot tbe money sbe boJ won boJ belpeJ ber immensely witb Jeolinq witb beinq confineJ to o wbeelcboir os o result of tbe occiJent.
ln o sense, tbot bolonces tbinqs out... or ot leost ber 0nconscious miqbt "concluJe" tbot wos tbe cose.
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Because luck is the iesult of unconscious functioning anu because, by uefinition, you'ie not consciously awaie of what you uo unconsciously, it seems like you get what you want - oi, in the case of bau luck, uon't want - without conscious effoit.
The usual conclusion is that it just happeneu oi that some outsiue foice uiu it.
But the tiuth is that luck is unconsciously geneiateu success.
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You have a much gieatei ability to unconsciously influence youi enviionment than you piobably iealize.
Yes, you have tiemenuously gieatei contiol of the woilu aiounu you than most people believe.
Foi example, you may be awaie of the woik of 0ii uellei, the Isiaeli psychic who bent spoons with his minu.
l know o qreot Jeol obout 6eller becouse be onJ l were consiJerinq Joinq o joint venture to troin people to function psycbicolly, ofter l JemonstroteJ tbot l coulJ Jo tbot witb tbe CF0s onJ leoJinq 6roups of some of my mojor clients.
6eller JemonstroteJ benJinq o spoon tbot be loter qove me onJ l still bove in my collection. Ee belJ tbe spoon in one bonJ onJ very qently strokeJ it witb o finqer of tbe otber wbile be soiJ to bimself, silently, "tbe spoon is benJinq, tbe spoon is benJinq." AnJ it JiJ, in just o few seconJs.
Skeptics, such as }ames Ranui, claim that the way uellei uoes this is by pie- benuing the spoon iepeateuly until, in engineeiing teims, it is fatigueu - it's lost its stiength anu can be easily bent with one fingei. While that's a facile explanation of how Ranui, a magician, might uo that, it's not coiiect in uellei's case.
Bow uo I know.
Because the Naval Weapons Laboiatoiy (0.S. uoveinment) stuuieu the metalluigical stiuctuie of spoons that uellei hau bent. They concluueu that the spoons coulu nevei been bent in the way Ranui suggests.
"6eller oltereJ tbe lottice structure of o metol olloy in o woy tbot connot be JuplicoteJ. Tbere is no present scientific explonotion os to bow be JiJ tbis."
FlJon ByrJ, 0.S. Novol Surfoce Weopons Center. {Tbis is tbe first reseorcb reloteJ to poropsycboloqy conJucteJ ot o 0S 6overnment
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focility to bove been releoseJ for publicotion by tbe 0S Beportment of Befense).
Beie's wheie some of my NIT tiaining comes in hanuy.
Wben you benJ onytbinq, it curves. As it Joes, tbe roJius from tbe center of tbe curve to tbe eJqe on tbe outsiJe of curve {tbe outer fiber in enqineerinq terms) becomes qreoter tbon tbe roJius to tbe inner fiber. So tbe outer fiber must stretcb wbile tbe inner fiber must compress.
Tbere ore lonq-estoblisbeJ metollurqicol tests tbot visuolly sbow tbis effect tbot occurs wbenever onyone pbysicolly benJs onytbinq beyonJ tbe elostic limit {tbe point wbere it Jistorts rotber tbon just rebounJinq wben you let qo).
Tbis effect wos entirely obsent from tbe spoons tbot 6eller bent mentolly so tbe reseorcbers ot tbe Novol Surfoce Weopons Center concluJeJ tbot tbe spoons coulJ not bove been bent pbysicolly - Jespite wbot }omes RonJi suqqests.
When uellei kept stioking the spoon aftei it bent, it bioke anu the bowl fell to the giounu. 0nce again, expeits concluueu that this coulun't have occuiieu by physically benuing the spoon.
"Tbe 6eller metboJ of breokinq is unlike onytbinq JescribeJ in tbe {metollurqicol) literoture, from fotique froctures ot-19S Jeqrees to brittle froctures ot -600 Jeqrees C."
Prof. }obn EosteJ {Professor of Pbysics Birkbeck Colleqe, 0niversity of lonJon, FnqlonJ)
0thei caiefully contiolleu tests of 0ii uellei's skills of mentally manipulating the physical woilu weie conuucteu by Stanfoiu Reseaich Institute. In them, uellei mentally eiaseu paits of magnetic computei tapes. Even Ranui coulun't come up with an explanation foi that one, to my knowleuge.
What's moie, theie have been lots of piess iepoits of oiuinaiy people mentally benuing spoons when they got togethei in "spoon benuing" paities. Foi example, 0niveisity of Aiizona Psychology Piofessoi put togethei such a paity foi his stuuents, but in a scientifically contiolleu situation anu a numbei of them successfully mentally bent spoons. }ust seaich on uoogle unuei "gioup spoon benuing" anu you'll get lots of hits.
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lf youJ like o biblioqropby of some of tbe reseorcb on 6eller performeJ by biqbly reputoble reseorcbers ot mojor reseorcb institutes, qo to:
Even moie inteiesting is that when uellei appeaieu on television in the 0.K., uemonstiating his mental spoon benuing, the uuaiuian newspapei staiteu to ieceive iepoits of chiluien aiounu the countiy ieplicating what he hau uemonstiateu. So they publisheu a iequest foi veiifieu iepoits of this occuiiing. To be veiifieu, it hau to be attesteu to by at least thiee auults in wiiting, stating that they hau obseiveu the phenomenon. The uuaiuian ieceiveu ovei 4uu such valiuateu iepoits.
l met witb 6eller in bis polotiol bome in ReJJinq, outsiJe of lonJon onJ wos stortleJ to see tbot bis livinq room wos furnisbeJ witb stockeJ qloss cboirs by SolvoJor Boli. l oskeJ bim bow be offorJeJ tbot onJ be tolJ me tbot be wos tben eorninq lots of money by spenJinq 6 weeks eocb yeor psycbicolly prospectinq for mojor minerol onJ oil componies. l verifieJ tbot be wos tben eorninq obout SS million 0.K. PounJs {obout $218 million in current Jollors) per yeor tokinq only o percentoqe of tbe finJs be successfully moJe.
Ee JescribeJ bow be psycbicolly sconneJ mops for likely locotions onJ tben flew over tbem in o belicopter to pinpoint tbem.
uellei peifoimeu his psychic piospecting foi some of the majoi mineial anu oil companies in the woilu.
visiting the Solomon Islanus foi the opening of the Zanex Navu golu mine Philip Rennie, an oil anu mineial engineei, founu 0ii uellei who was uoing some psychic piospecting in these potentially iich islanus. Rennie saiu,
"lf you boJ oskeJ wbo l tbouqbt l miqbt meet on o visit to tbe Solomon lslonJs to look ot qolJ mininq, 0ri 6eller's nome woulJ not bove been biqb on tbe list. Wbot woulJ tbe renowneJ lsroeli born psycbic powers Jemonstrotor, fomous for bis spoon benJinq oct, be Joinq in tbis sleepy little Soutb Pocific country?
0n onotber islonJ in tbe Solomons qroup, Holoito, Zonex wonts to explore for botb qolJ onJ JiomonJs, ...0ri 6eller, ofter flyinq over tbe islonJ, supporteJ tbe view tbot Holoito is prospective for botb qolJ onJ JiomonJs.
Wbot, you osk very reosonobly, Joes 6eller know obout prospectinq? Tbe onswer is, reporteJly, enouqb to eorn S0 million in tbe lost S yeors from royolties {0.S.$ S11 million oJjusteJ for inflotion). Ee looks ot mops onJ oreos onJ oJvises componies wbere to Jrill, cborqinq o royolty on resultont
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finJs. No qreot Jetoil is ovoiloble, but be is soiJ to bove pointeJ tbe woy to botb oil onJ minerol Jiscoveries.
6eller obonJoneJ bis stoqe coreer of spoon benJinq, clock stoppinq onJ stortinq, psycbic Jrowinq, etc. but bos founJ o nicbe in commerce. lt wos tbe lote, borJly liqbtweiqbt Sir vol Buncon of Rio Tinto Zinc {one of tbe worlJs lorqest minerol extroction componies) wbo is creJiteJ witb stortinq 6eller on bis prospectinq coreer."
When I met with 0ii uellei back uuiing the 198u's, he explaineu that it takes a lot of eneigy to peifoim such things. Be tolu me that he hau to exeicise foui houis pei uay to uo continually uo it.
Bowevei, it uoesn't take much effoit to psychically influence the people in youi enviionment - because it's an entiiely natuial piocess that takes place unconsciously anu that anyone can uo.
Wben l useJ to perform live {rotber tbon lnternet-boseJ) troininqs orounJ tbe worlJ, l boJ my stuJents perform on exercise tbot very cleorly JemonstroteJ tbis.
l oskeJ for o volunteer wbo, wben iJentifieJ, l occomponieJ to onotber room wbere l qove bim or ber o piece of corJ stock witb o bolJ borizontol line onJ o bolJ verticol line, crossinq ot tbe center of tbe poqe. Tbe verticol line wos lobeleJ A ot one enJ onJ B ot tbe otber. Tbe borizontol line wos lobeleJ C ot one enJ onJ B ot tbe otber.
l olso qove tbe volunteer o simple penJulum, o leoJ weiqbt ot tbe enJ of o 12 incb lonq piece of strinq. AnJ l oskeJ ber or bim to center tbe weiqbt over tbe center of tbe poper onJ to soy silently onJ repeoteJly to tbemself, "Tbe penJulum is movinq for A to B, tbe penJulum is movinq from A to B..." Fvery time l JiJ tbis, tbe penJulum responJeJ by stortinq to move from A to B, first in o sort of wobbly fosbion onJ soon in on obsolutely stroiqbt line.
Tbis boppeneJ becouse tbe volunteers unconscious minJ took tbis repeoteJ stotement os on instruction onJ "invisibly" monipuloteJ bis or ber boJy to moke tbe penJulum move os instructeJ.
Tben, wbile tbe volunteer wos still procticinq in tbe otber room, l took osiJe 20 of tbe moin boJy of stuJents onJ tolJ tbem to just observe tbe volunteer wben tbey returneJ, until l qove o siqnol. At tbot point, eocb wos to silently repeot to bim- or berself, "tbe penJulum is movinq from C to B, tbe penJulum is movinq from C to B..."
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l next brouqbt tbe volunteer bock into tbe room wbere be JemonstroteJ wbot l boJ tolJ bim to Jo. Tbe penJulum moveJ in o perfectly stroiqbt line from A to B onJ bock.
Tben l qove tbe siqnol to tbe otber stuJents onJ tbe penJulum storteJ veerinq from tbe A to B stroiqbt line. Iirst it moveJ in o ellipticol potb from A to B, tben o circulor one, tben on ellipticol one from C to B before settlinq into o stroiqbt line from C to B.
You con try tbis yourself witb o qroup of frienJs. You miqbt oll be quite surpriseJ ot tbe results if you follow my instructions.
Since theie was only one volunteei, what was bioaucast by the unconscious minus of the othei twenty swampeu his own instiuctions to his 0nconscious anu the will of the mass pievaileu.
But it uoesn't take numeiical supeiioiity to influence otheis in subtle but effective ways. 0sually, it just takes a small "psychic nuuge."
l onJ o lot of my coocbinq stuJents bove fun "creotinq porkinq spoces."
ln my coocbinq proqrom, we eocb builJ on imoqinory mecbonism for instontly qettinq our unconscious minJs ottention onJ bovinq it put o biqb priority on implementinq wbotever we instruct it to Jo.
0sinq tbis, wben lm beoJinq out to o movie, o restouront or to visit o frienJ wbere tbe porkinq is Jifficult, l instruct my 0nconscious to creote o porkinq spoce riqbt in from of wbere l om beoJinq.
0suolly, wben l qet tbere, l not only observe one person Jeportinq to leove me o perfect porkinq ploce but severol.
Eow Joes tbis work?
Tbink obout o time wben you JeciJeJ to leove o restouront. You coulJ bove left o few minutes eorlier or o few minutes loter but ot some point you felt it wos riqbt onJ left. 0suolly tbot point Joesnt porticulorly stonJ out, it just seems like tbe riqbt time, Joesnt it?
As witb tbe penJulum exercise, if l senJ o siqnol to your 0nconscious tbot tbis is tbe time to leove onJ if it is witbin tbot occeptoble winJow, you probobly will Jo so, riqbt tben.
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Tbots wbot boppens wben l or one of my stuJents creotes o porkinq spoce, ot leost tbots tbe woy l tbink it works. lve intervieweJ o number of tbe people wbo pulleJ out wben l "creoteJ o porkinq spoce" to finJ out tbeir experience onJ tbey oll soiJ sometbinq like, "lt suJJenly seemeJ tbe riqbt time to leove so l qot up onJ soiJ, lets qo."
0ii uellei uiun't know how he uiu the amazing things he uiu anu he tolu me that he uiun't want to know because he was afiaiu that knowing woulu kill his ability to uo them. Be just tolu his unconscious to benu the spoon anu it uiu.
Youi unconscious also has iemaikable abilities to influence youi woilu that it will use to make you veiy lucky if you know how to tell it to uo so.
The bottom line is that luck is unconsciously geneiateu success anu youi 0nconscious has lots of iesouices to effectively implement what it ueciues to uo. Anu when those aie what you want to happen, you'll piobably say, "Bow lucky."
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Conceptually, becoming lucky is pietty simple. But, as in most things, the elegance is in the uetails of implementing these concepts.
"6oJ is in tbe Jetoils."
luJwiq Hies von Jer Robe
Beie, I'll uiscuss the concepts. In subsequent Seciets, I'll get into the uetails.
To become goou-lucky, you just neeu to effectively:
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Wiite out what you want, euiting until it seems peifect. When it intuitively seems peifect, that's feeuback fiom youi 0nconscious to youi conscious minu that you aie basically on tiack. But if you have nagging thoughts such as, "I can't uo that" oi "I just can't have what I want," that tells you that you have unconscious ioaublocks that will pievent you fiom getting what you want (see E, below).
Youi 0nconscious is piocessing millions of things simultaneously. 0nless you let it know that what you want shoulu have a high piioiity, it will get tosseu in the hoppei with all the iest. That uoesn't mean that youi 0nconscious won't piouuce the iesult you want but it ceitainly shaiply ieuuces the piobability of that happening.
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Lucky people constantly iecognize oppoitunities in chance encounteis. They aie open to them anu expect them to happen. They aie ielaxeu about finuing them. Almost no uay goes by that I uon't have a "lucky" expeiience, although most of them have limiteu impact. Be open to anu pay attention to
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what's going on aiounu you as youi 0nconscious attempts to give you what you aie asking it to cieate.
Suipiisingly enough, most people uon't expect anu uon't see the lucky oppoitunities when they appeai anu theii lucky ship just sales by. Bowevei, lucky people uo.
If you want to leain to become lucky, you have to uefine what you mean by that (by picking ielevant expeiiences) anu give youi 0nconscious appiopiiate feeuback that tells it when it has uone what you want anu when it hasn't.
Some people get the opposite of what they wish foi because, in effect, theii 0nconscious has things "wiieu backwaius." 0theis get nothing oi only a fiaction of what they want because theii 0nconscious "ueciues" it isn't appiopiiate foi them to have what they want. If this is what's going on with you, you'll have to iesolve these self-uefeating unconscious habit patteins into self-suppoiting ones befoie you'll become goou-lucky.
If you uo all of these things effectively, you will become a lot luckiei. Keep ieauing anu I'll tell you how to uo all of them.
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It uoesn't mattei whethei you come up with lots of examples oi just a few. If you neeu to piime the pump, ask youi fiienus to tell you about some of theii lucky bieaks. You'll finu that most people can ieauily uo that.
I'm luckiei than most so when I just staiteu listing my lucky bieaks, I came up with 46 majoi ones in S minutes.
Ior exomple, mony yeors oqo, l wos flyinq from lonJon to Wosbinqton, B.C. onJ l noticeJ o womon cbonqinq seots two times before sbe JeciJeJ to sit in tbe empty seot next to me.
We storteJ cbottinq onJ, since l olwoys useJ to fly Iirst Closs witb mostly business trovelers, l oskeJ ber wbot sbe wos in. Sbe tolJ me sbe wos on Fxecutive vice PresiJent of one of pioneer inJepenJent pbone componies, HCl.
l oskeJ ber bow tbinqs were qoinq onJ sbe recounteJ o tole of woe. Tbot qove me o cbonce to tell ber bow l coulJ troin ber teom to turn ber woes into successes. We set up o meetinq for tbe next morninq to meet witb ber teom onJ Jiscuss wbot l boJ to offer.
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ln tbose Joys, if you went to o business meetinq, you wore o nice suit onJ tie. Tbot JiJnt botber me becouse l boJ severol of tbose in my luqqoqe but Britisb Airwoys JiJnt brinq my luqqoqe witb me. lt wos still in lonJon, os tbey quickly JetermineJ wben it JiJnt sbow up on tbe boqqoqe corousel.
lnsteoJ of seeinq tbis os on unlucky event, l tolJ Britisb Airwoys l boJ on importont meetinq tbe next morninq onJ tbot tbeyJ bove to buy me o qooJ suit, sbirt, sboes, etc. Becouse l troveleJ orounJ tbe worlJ montbly in Iirst on Britisb Airwoys, tbey quickly qove me o buJqet of $1,200 so l went to NorJstroms Jeportment store, founJ tbe riqbt suit, qot it fitteJ tbe some eveninq, founJ o nice poir of sboes onJ sboweJ up ot tbe meetinq tbe next morninq properly ottireJ.
By tbe woy, l qot o mojor controct from HCl - onJ o new suit onJ poir of sboes - out of tbose lucky events.
I'll bet that as you ieau that, you iemembeieu at least one of youi own lucky bieaks, uiun't you. If so, iecoiu it befoie you foiget. If not, seaich the Inteinet foi "lucky bieak" stoiies anu ask youi fiienus foi fuithei examples, in oiuei to piime the pump. Pietty soon, youi 0nconscious will get the point anu stait giving you memoiies of youi own lucky bieaks.
Be suie to iecoiu them. Boing so will fuithei piime the pump.
When you've got a list, iemembei the fiist event on the list anu, when it is ieally cleai, imagine putting that memoiy into youi Beait Chakia (the centei of chest) anu say to youiself, "That's a lucky bieak. Please give me moie lucky bieaks."
Bo this with each of the othei examples on youi list.
Then, at the enu of the uay, see what lucky bieaks you expeiienceu uuiing that uay anu auu to the list.
Bo this eveiy uay, winnowing youi list to the "best" examples.
You alieauy know how to uo this. It's wheie all of those yeais in English classes will pay off.
Tianslate youi intuitive wish into a cleaily stateu wiitten instiuction to youi 0nconscious.
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Fiist, wiite out what you want, how you want to be lucky.
Ior exomple, "l will finJ o porkinq ploce ot }oons on TbirJ Cof wben l bove luncb witb 6lorio toJoy ot noon."
Euit that until it seems intuitively peifect foi you.
As l reoJ tbis, l reolizeJ tbot l wont tbe porkinq spoce to be tbere wben l qet tbere onJ l wont it to be lorqe enouqb so otber cors wont bump into my Porscbe. {Tbose Jinqs ore expensive to fix.) So l eJiteJ wbot l wrote until l wos fully sotisfieJ witb it. {Note tbot tbe cbonqes ore in bolJ type.)
"l will finJ o 4$(:& porkinq spoce $A A)). $A ! $((-%&2 riqbt in front of }oons on TbirJ Cof wben l bove luncb witb 6lorio toJoy ot noon."
When what you have wiitten seems intuitively anu intellectually peifect foi you, imagine placing that into youi Beait Chakia saying to youiself, "Please make this happen in ways that aie foi the highest goou of me anu of all conceineu." When you've uone that you've completeu this step.
Bowevei, if you have thoughts oi feelings that tell you that you won't get what you aie asking foi, you aie almost ceitainly encounteiing Blockeis (self-uefeating unconscious habit patteins) that can stop you colu. If so, see Seciet 1u.
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Youi 0nconscious has a tiemenuous numbei of things to uo to keep you alive anu functioning anu it has a built-in piioiity that puts issues uealing with youi suivival at the veiy top of the stack.
If you want it to put something othei than a suivival issue neai the top of the stack as well, you'll have to uo something to make that happen.
You alieauy know how to uo: thiough iepetition, as you uiu when leaining youi lines foi a school play.
If you iepeateuly ieau, oi fai bettei, wiite out youi iequest to youi 0nconscious, its piioiity on giving you what you iequest will giow anu giow. Functionally, this woiks by getting a pait of youi biain calleu the Reticulai Activating System (RAS) focuseu on what you aie iepeateuly asking youi 0nconscious to give you.
Youi RAS is a pait of youi biainstem that ueteimines whethei anu, to what extent, you aie awake anu aleit. It is one of the paits that keeps you focuseu on something. You've piobably obseiveu it in action.
lets soy tbot youre like me onJ ore consiJerinq buyinq o new cor, o Porscbe Ponomero. You moy reoJ obout it in moqozines, visit Jeolersbips onJ otberwise become quite fomilior witb it, repeoteJly focusinq on it.
Pretty soon, becouse tbis oction stimulotes your RAS, youll stort seeinq Porscbe Ponomeros oll over tbe ploce - not becouse tbey suJJenly become more populous but becouse your RAS bos you focuseJ on poyinq ottention to tbeir Jistinctive pbysicol cborocteristics wbenever even tbe smollest Jistinctive ospect of tbem comes into your fielJ of vision.
Similorly, l remember o stuJy perbops 40 yeors oqo. Tbe porticiponts wbo repeoteJly imoqineJ tbemselves finJinq currency on tbe siJewolk boJ o mucb biqber rote of Joinq so tbot tbe control qroup. Aqoin, tbe key wos stimulotinq tbeir RAS so tbot tbey poiJ porticulor ottention to onytbinq tbot coulJ be currency os tbey wolkeJ olonq, wbereos most people Jont even look.
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Youi Reticulai Activating System is a mechanism in youi biain that youi 0nconscious uses to keep you focuseu on something, a mechanism that it tiiggeis when you have uone what's necessaiy to inciease its piioiity on that something.
}ust remember bock to wben you boJ to leorn your lines for o scbool ploy. Your repeoteJly reoJ onJ, perbops, soiJ your lines out louJ until you reocbeJ tbe point wbere, wben you qot tbe cue, tbey just rolleJ off your tonque olmost outomoticolly.
0r remember leorninq to sinq o populor sonq tbot you likeJ. Tbrouqb repetition, you reocbeJ tbe point wbere wbenever you beorJ o cborJ of tbot sonq, tbe rest of tbe sonq onJ tbe occomponyinq worJs poppeJ into your conscious minJ.
So get youi 0nconscious to inciease its piioiity on giving you what you want by iepeateuly ieauing, oi even bettei, wiiting youi iequest to it as well as asking it to give you lucky bieaks. When you uo, youi RAS will make you moie awaie of those lucky chance occuiiences.
Again, howevei, if this iepetition tiiggeis feelings oi thoughts that you won't oi can't get what you'ie asking foi, you'ie almost ceitainly iunning into Blockeis (self-uefeating unconscious habit patteins) that will piobably stop you colu. 0i, if youi 0nconscious is "wiieu backwaius," it will give you the opposite - the iesult of anothei Blockei.
Being 0nconsciously "wiieu backwaius" was something that the ieseaicheis at the Piinceton 0niveisity Engineeiing Anomalies Reseaich Institute (PEAR) founu that some people iepeateuly uemonstiateu.
Tbe Beon of tbe Princeton Fnqineerinq Scbool set tbis lnstitute up to finJ out wby some people were "computer jinxes" wbile otbers were not.
Burinq ten yeors of reseorcb, tbey founJ tbot, ot on increJibly biqb level of stotisticol siqnificonce, onyone coulJ mentolly control ony electronic, mecbonicol or nucleor Jevice tbey testeJ.
As 0ri 6eller JiJ wben strokinq o spoon, tbey instructeJ tbeir test subjects to just repeoteJly soy to tbemselves, "Tbe qropb is qoinq up" or sometbinq similor to tbe situotion... onJ tbe qropb went up.
Eowever, tbey founJ tbot some people experienceJ tbe qropb qoinq Jown wben tbey tolJ it to qo up. Tbis wos becouse tbey were unconsciously "wireJ bockworJs."
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Some people aie "wiieu backwaius" in teims of success anu being lucky. The moie they tiy, the less successful anu less lucky they become. This is because they have self-uefeating unconscious habit patteins opeiating. (Noie about that in Seciet 1u.)
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Lucky people constantly iecognize oppoitunities in what they encountei because they aie open to them.
Ior exomple, l wos open to tbe HCl vice PresiJent wbo bounceJ orounJ from one seot to onotber in tbe oirplone before settlinq Jown next to me.
l wos open to tbe possibility tbot wbot sbeJ Jone wosnt crozy but tbot sbe wos unconsciously lookinq for me.
AnJ tbots sometbinq sbe reolizeJ boJ been tbe cose ofter weJ been workinq toqetber for wbile.
As ielateu above, Bainett Belzbeig }i. was open to the extiemely unlikely chance that when he thought he heaiu someone say, "Ni. Buffett," it was TBE Ni. Buffett, the investing wizaiu who is the thiiu iichest peison in the woilu anu Chaiiman of Beikshiie-Bathaway - anu who eventually bought Belzbeig Biamonus thiough a tax-fiee exchange of Beikshiie-Bathaway stock.
Be open aftei telling youi 0nconscious what you want anu gieat lucky things can occui.
Ior exomple, l useJ to qo out only witb women wbo boJ only o porticulor type of oppeoronce.
Eowever, wben l went lookinq for my Perfect Portner, my 0nconscious JirecteJ me to eEormony. Tbere, tbe tbirJ conJiJote tbot tbey sent me JiJnt look ot oll like wbot l tbouqbt l wos lookinq for.
But tbere wos o resononce obout wbot sbe boJ to soy onJ tbe picture of ber in yellow slickers witb boby penquins explorinq ber reolly intriqueJ me. So l openeJ myself to sometbinq new.
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Tbot wos 6lorio, wbo is now my wife onJ is "procticolly perfect in every woy," only one of tbe tbirty-two cborocteristics l wos seekinq in my Perfect Portner. Focb Joy witb ber is o joy.
Wbot if l boJnt been open to someone wbo lookeJ Jifferent from wbot l expecteJ?
The bottom line of this Seciet is that lucky people aie open to unlikely chance occuiiences that sometimes tuin out to be lucky bieaks. In contiast, unlucky people say to themselves something like, "That's not what I am looking foi" anu ignoie such oppoitunities.
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Lucky people expect goou things to happen to them, iecognize them when they uo anu act on them when they appeai.
This is what psychologists call a "confiimation bias" anu eveiyone else calls "a self- fulfilling piophecy." If you believe that you aie lucky anu act accoiuingly, theie a much highei piobability that's what you'll get than if not.
"luck is believinq youre lucky."
Tennessee Willioms
0nlucky people uon't expect to be lucky anu that's what they get. By the way, that's anothei Blockei in opeiation.
Richaiu Wiseman, a psychologist at the 0niveisity of Beitfoiushiie, stuuieu a gioup of about 4uu self-iuentifieu veiy lucky anu unlucky people foi about ten yeais, conuucting some inteiesting expeiiments.
Be founu that the lucky people consistently encounteieu anu iecognizeu oppoitunities wheieas unlucky people uiun't. In an aiticle, "The Luck Factoi," Wiseman, authoi of a book by the same name, ielateu:
"l qove botb lucky onJ unlucky people o newspoper, onJ oskeJ tbem to look tbrouqb it onJ tell me bow mony pbotoqropbs were insiJe. 0n overoqe, tbe unlucky people took obout two minutes to count tbe pbotoqropbs wbereos tbe lucky people took just seconJs.
Wby? Becouse tbe seconJ poqe of tbe newspoper contoineJ tbe messoqe "Stop countinq - Tbere ore 4S pbotoqropbs in tbis newspoper." Tbis messoqe took up bolf of tbe poqe onJ wos written in type tbot wos over two incbes biqb.
lt wos storinq everyone stroiqbt in tbe foce, but tbe unlucky people tenJeJ to miss it onJ tbe lucky people tenJeJ to spot it. }ust for fun, l ploceJ o seconJ lorqe messoqe bolf woy tbrouqb tbe newspoper. Tbis one onnounceJ: "Stop
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countinq, tell tbe experimenter you bove seen tbis onJ win $2S0." Aqoin, tbe unlucky people misseJ tbe opportunity becouse tbey were still too busy lookinq for pbotoqropbs."
uoing back to my iequest to my 0nconscious to immeuiately finu a paiking space uiiectly in fiont of }oan's on Thiiu Caf, the occasion was my veiy fiist in-peison meeting with my now-wife uloiia aftei meeting anu communicating with hei thiough eBaimony.
6lorio liveJ in tbe EollywooJ Eills oreo of los Anqeles onJ l liveJ in Sonto Borboro ot tbe time. Tbot meont l boJ to Jrive obout 90 miles to meet ber.
At tbe time, l wos not ot oll fomilior witb los Anqeles onJ boJ no iJeo of wbot to expect, ossuminq l even founJ }oons. So, before leovinq Sonto Borboro, l moJe my request of my 0nconscious onJ set my 6PS. Eoppily, l orriveJ five minutes obeoJ of tbe oqreeJ time, fully expectinq my porkinq spoce to be tbere, owoitinq me.
As l wos swiftly Jrivinq Jown TbirJ Street, l noticeJ tbot tbere werent ony open porkinq spots. Tben, just ofter my 6PS soiJ l wos S00 yorJs from my Jestinotion, l sow o spoce. But it wos obout 900 feet from my Jestinotion, not riqbt in front of it so l iqnoreJ tbe spoce onJ continueJ.
Sure enouqb, os my 6PS onnounceJ tbot lJ orrive ot my Jestinotion in 100 feet, l sow someone pullinq out of o porkinq spoce onJ, wben l qlonceJ to its riqbt, l noticeJ tbot it wos riqbt in front of }oons. Tbots tbe spoce l took.
lf l boJnt been expectinq to finJ wbot lJ oskeJ for, lJ probobly bove porkeJ 900 feet owoy onJ been o little lote for my oppointment but, expectinq to qet wbot lJ oskeJ for, l wos just o little bit eorly. AnJ l tbink tbots pretty importont on o first Jote.
So ask youi 0nconscious foi what you want anu keep youi eyes open, expecting it to give it to you.
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In youi noimal life, if you'ie tiying to leain to uo something that's new to you, you know how ciitically impoitant it is to get constiuctive feeuback fiom someone who alieauy knows how to uo that.
The same is tiue foi youi 0nconscious.
If you want to become a lot luckiei than you alieauy aie, you have to tiain youi 0nconscious to uo something othei than what it's alieauy uoing.
"lf you olwoys Jo wbot you've olwoys Jone, you'll olwoys qet wbot you've olwoys qot."
Eenry IorJ {oltbouqb often ottributeJ to Tony Robbins)
Since you consciously ueciue whethei you have been lucky oi not, youi job is to cleaily show youi 0nconscious what you think is a lucky bieak.
Beie's an easy way of uoing that.
At the enu of each uay, just befoie you go to sleep, sit uown with a pen anu a piece of papei oi at youi computei. 0n a page uiviueu veitically in two, label the left-hanu column Successes anu the iight Failuies.
Then ieview youi uay, looking caiefully foi any goou-lucky expeiiences, youi Successes, anu any failuies to be lucky wheie you weie expecting to finu Successes, youi Failuies. Recoiu all of each type in the appiopiiate column anu uate the uocument.
Staiting with the fiist Success, iemembei that expeiience. In youi imagination, using youi skill of Binusight, make it even bettei. When it is tiuly gieat, imagine placing it in youi Beait Chakia (the centei of youi chest) anu silently say into youi Beait Chakia, "That's what I consiuei a lucky bieak. Please give me moie lucky bieaks." Then take a ueep bieath anu exhale shaiply.
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Bo this with each of the othei Successes on youi list.
Next, staiting with the fiist Failuie, using youi skill of Binusight, change that iemembeieu Failuie into an Imaginaiy Expeiience of being lucky. When it is tiuly gieat, imagine placing it in youi Beait Chakia (the centei of youi chest) anu silently say into youi Beait Chakia, "That's what I consiuei a lucky bieak. Please give me lots of lucky bieaks." Then take a ueep bieath anu exhale shaiply.
Repeat this foi each of the Failuies on youi list. In the piocess, you'll, in effect, be telling youi 0nconscious to "tuin lemons into lemonaue."
You'll soon become able to uo this quite quickly anu will note that you get moie lucky bieaks, if you keep youi eyes open.
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0ui unconscious minus iun oui lives. They ensuie oui bloou is pumpeu anu ueteimine what we uo anu uon't see, what we uo oi uon't uo anu how lucky we aie.
They uo this thiough a seiies of complex unconscious habit-patteins such as you uevelopeu as an infant that enableu you to easily stanu up anu walk oi to easily anu pietty automatically uiive a cai.
Sometimes, howevei, unconscious habit-patteins that weie once successful become unsuccessful as we change anu the contexts of oui lives change. If that's the case, they tuin fiom success-piouucing to self-uefeating.
If that's the case, you'll typically become awaie of them when something you want uoesn't happen oi when you seem unable to uo something - such as being lucky in a paiticulai situation.
I call these self-uefeating unconscious habit-patteins Blockeis because they aie ioaublocks that pievent you fiom being oi having what you want.
If you have Blockeis that pievent you fiom becoming luckiei, even when you uo what I've pieviously uesciibeu, you neeu to ie-tiain youi unconscious in ways that tiansfoim those self-uefeating unconscious habit-patteins into self-suppoiting ones.
To finu out moie about this, ieau Posts 6 anu 7 on my Success Blog: http:stuaitlichtman.comblockeis wheie I explain the piocess.
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When you uo this with iespect to becoming luckiei, you'll piobably be staitleu at the positive impact.
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