Living life: Luck Readiness

Once in a while, you bump into this person who just stands out like a crazy mind – pursuing something so obsessively, determined to hit their heads on the wall till it cracks. Such people are poster boys of perseverance in pursuit of their goals and a general optimism even in the most negative of environments. Most of the time, such people become vindicated and due to general outlook of those in their environment, their success will be attributed as luck. One might think that good fortune would play a role, but even luck is largely a matter of one’s own making at least according to Psychologist Richard Wiseman who has found that people who describe themselves as lucky share common habits that account for their success. “They’re friendly and fond of new experiences, traits that put them on a collision course with new opportunities. In addition, “lucky” folks simply have higher expectations of success -- they’re too pigheadedly optimistic to heed the long odds and call it quits.” There’s plenty of evidence that indeed, very optimistic people sometimes are very lucky. It will be said that these people always get what they want because they are just lucky people. But much of it is due to the passion, focus and a s a result their own optimism that others cannot share because they look at it from the angle of people who have not dreamt and slept about what they want to achieve. For example it is common for ‘poor’ people to complain that rich people are very lucky, while a few ask themselves, “How did they get this rich?” Such people seem to have a natural tendency to see the best possibilities available, the best opportunities in every situation. These people are said to be Luck Ready. According to an internet career coach, Luck Readiness is defined as recognizing, creating, utilizing, and adapting to opportunities and outcomes occasioned by chance. I have always stated in this column before that luck comes to those who chase it. In fact that everybody makes their own luck. These people understand that risks have upsides and downsides, but still pursue those risks knowing that they prefer the upsides to come but are not so pre-occupied with the downsides. They only try to prepare how such downsides can be counteracted when they happen. People who tend to think of themselves as unlucky tend to be pessimistic about everything in life and so it becomes a self fulfilling prophesy. What you worry about most becomes the reality. If you think about success all the time, your mind gets used to it and it slowly accustoms itself the idea of success and indeed success comes.This Sunday, prepare to receive your own luck. kelviod@yahoo.com