[coloradan]

Tell the Admin Moderator you saw this message and win $250!!

;)

[Egon]

I'm the luckiest unlucky person I know!

Life is good.

[billorites]

"The loser's guide to getting lucky"

If my adolescence is any guide, I would be one of the losers.

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

Here are Professor Wiseman's four top tips for becoming lucky:

1. Buy my book.
2. Buy my book.
3. Buy my book.
4. Buy my book.

[dware]

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.

It's mind over matter. Once you decide you are going to do something, no matter what that something is, and that you are not going to let anyone get in the way or bring you down, you begin to do the things necessary to accomplish those tasks or goals. Most of the time we don't really even realize it, because we do it self consciously(sp?).

[Drango]

Tell me you're lucky and send me $200.00

[jolie560]

..."noticing chance opportunities"...

These opportunities appear during almost every athletic (sports) game; and--at a race track--there is usually one, sometimes 2, good gambling risks that you can choose to take advantage of.

[CaptRon]

I thought this was going to be an article on dating tips.

[OSHA]

I counted two pictures. Do I win anything? No? D++n the luck!

[KantianBurke]

[SamAdams76]

Well the article makes some good points on why some people appear to be "luckier" than others. But in my opinion, it all comes down to attitude.

People with a positive attitude tend to have good things happen to them. And when you have a positive attitude, the inevitable misfortunes and disappointments that visit all of us in life don't seem so bad. In fact, people with a positive attitude frequently turn unfortunate events into positive events, and if not, they tend to bounce right back anyhow.

On the other hand, people with negative attitudes seem to attract all the troubles of the world to themselves like a giant magnet. You can actually see it in their body language. They "shuffle" around and have that "sad sack" look about them. I try to stay away from people like this because negative attitudes are contagious! These people are also awfully depressing to be around. They are losers, plain and simple and until they change their attitudes, they shall always be losers.

Those who are "winners" in life are easy to identify. They have a spring in their step, a smile on their faces. They are fun to be around. It is not "luck" that gives them a positive attitude but it is their positive attitude that brings them "luck."

The best New Year's resolution one can make for themselves in the coming year is to get a positive attitude (if you don't already have one).

[Lazamataz]

I think there is real luck, not just noticing opportunities.

Whenever I go to a party with a door prize, I invariably win it. I've gotten more frozen turkeys, screwdriver sets, and even expensive software packages then anyone else in history.

[WKB]

This is bogus from the start because there is no such thing as luck

[Protagoras]

I have always thought that a lot of it was a matter of perception on the part of the recipient.

For instance, a medical test that brings a diagnosis of cancer or heart disease can be perceived by the person either way.

[pabianice]

LOST!

7-yr-old male cat. Neutered. Missing right ear and left hind leg. Blind in left eye. Nose bitten-off in fight. Epileptic, has degenerative nerve desease and feline AIDS. Answers to name "Lucky."

[John Lenin]

The harder I work the luckier I get.

[Paulus Invictus]

I have been supremely lucky at several moments in my life as there were numerous instances when luck or extraordinary coincidences intervened when they were needed.

I was once dead last in one of those very long lines in the service when the troops were being interviewed for a new service job in Japan. As the line moved slowly towards a building where the job interwiews were held, the guys got more and more aprehensive, and for a good reason. Out of the office came each guy looking very unhappy as they were all bound for Hokkaido and nothing jobs.

I finally got to the office, walked in and found a captain there with my papers in his hand. He smiled and said,"hey, this is a coincidence, we have the same last name and are both from Los Angeles. You don't want to follow these other guys to Hokkaido do you?" Naturally, I said no. Then he told me he had one job left at the Air base and it was mine if I wanted it. I shouted YES and jumped for joy.

Another great piece of luck then occurred-- that new job at that base also changed my life as it was there that I discovered the company where I wanted to work after I got out of the service. It worked, I got the job, based upon the experience I gained while in the job I had in Japan. Is that luck, or what?

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Or as we say at this company,

"Thirty minutes of sucking a$$ is worth two years of college education and 10 years of on the job training.

[Centurion2000]

bump

[hosepipe]

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." -Thomas Jefferson