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The Eleven Secrets of Becoming Very Lucky
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Introduction In this ebook, I’m going to show you how to become a whole lot luckier. I’m going to do that by showing you the keys to becoming lucky, the eleven Secrets. If that interests you, let’s get started by asking, “What is luck?” The dictionary defines luck as:
“A force that brings good fortune or adversity; the events or circumstances that operate for or against an individual.”
And it defines lucky as:
“Having good luck; happening by chance; producing or resulting in good by chance.”
When I talk about luck, I’m talking about the ease and immediacy of seemingly automatically getting what I want. To me, being lucky means:
• I find a $20 bill on the ground.
• I get a free upgrade at a hotel or on an airplane that I haven’t earned.
• I immediately find a parking space where none are supposed to be available.
• I have an empty taxi pull right up in front of me during a New York
rainstorm while everyone else is frantically trying to get one.
• I extremely rapidly find my Perfect Partner who is “practically perfect in every way.”
• And otherwise being easily successful, to an unlikely extent.
In business, being lucky means to me:
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• Having someone who becomes my next client change seats to sit next to me
on a long airplane flight so I can sell them on the idea.
• Having a friend mention Margaret Thatcher’s speech in the House of Commons that triggers me to write Thatcher a brief letter quickly resulting in a major contract.
• Having an acquaintance mention someone they know who quickly becomes
my next major client.
• Getting right through to someone “who can never be reached by phone” and, a week later receiving $16.5 million* from them to start a new venture.
• Deciding to write an eBook, searching the web and instantly finding an
eBook that tells me exactly how to do it successfully, getting in touch with one of the authors who becomes my remarkably successful copywriter, “magically” connecting with a well-‐known author who became my co-‐author and 4 months later my eBook becomes an Internet best seller.
* -‐ adjusted for inflation.
All of these are things that actually happened to me. That’s the way my life works now. That isn’t the way it was for most of my life, however. I had to teach myself how to be lucky. In this eBook, I am going to discuss how you can become similarly lucky. So let’s start looking at the Secrets of doing so, the Secrets of Becoming Lucky.
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Secret 1: Luck Isn’t Incidental to Success, It Is An Essential Part of It Napoleon knew that. He specifically required that his Generals have “proven luck,” a track record of being lucky.
"I do not want a good General, I want a lucky one" – Napoleon
Almost everyone who is successful in business, sports and politics says that a good part of their success is due to luck. For example, when I asked him about his lucky experiences when getting started, my friend James Gray, an independent screenwriter, producer and director told me:
“When I was twenty-two, in my senior year of college, I made a short film, a thesis film, which I’m sure was not very good, but it was what it was. The night that my screening took place was a really balmy and nice night. A lot of people showed up. However, the night of my friend’s screening, it was pouring and virtually nobody did. The night that I had my screening just happened to be a night when a specific agent was there. He couldn’t have come the night after that because of his kids, but he showed up, saw the movie and loved it. It’s entirely possible, in fact probable that he would never have signed me if my movie had screened the next night. And that’s luck. It’s also luck that I got Vanessa Redgrave for my first movie. There was a charity event in New York that week, Sarajevo Artists Relief Fund Charity, so she was going to be in New York anyway. The project, she sort of liked, but she never would have flown from London to do it because she’d never heard of me before. She liked the script, she was there in New York for an eight-day period, and she figured, “Why not? I’ve got free time while I’m there.” And she did the movie. If that Sarajevo Artists Relief Fund hadn’t been that week, she would not have been in my film. And yes, her appearance in the movie was important. Luck is incredibly important. People don’t like to acknowledge luck because when they acknowledge luck, they think it implies a powerlessness, but it doesn’t. It means only that you’re putting in place key forces that will enable
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the luck to happen. What’s the expression? Luck is where preparation meets opportunity.”
James’ first film, “Little Odessa” won the Silver Lion Award in the 1994 Venice Film Festival. He has been “lucky” enough to have top actors and actresses (including Gwyneth Paltrow, Joachin Phoenix and Vanessa Redgrave) star in his films. His current film (working title “Lowlife”) is a finalist in the Cannes Film Festival awards and will be distributed by the Weinstein Company. As you can see, James clearly recognizes the importance of luck in becoming successful.
One of the first stories of being lucky that I ever heard was about Lana Turner who became one of the very top movie stars when I was a kid.
What actually happened is that she was a 16-year-old high school student who cut classes at Hollywood High and was sitting in the Top Hat Café on Sunset Boulevard drinking a Coke. Billy Wilkerson, publisher of the Hollywood Reporter, later recalled how, when he walked in, he saw Judy (her real first name) and was struck by her beauty. He arranged for the owner of the Café to introduce them and asked if she wanted to be in pictures. She said she’d need to ask her mother and, a few days later, they both visited Wilkerson who introduced them to Zeppo Marx (of the Marx Brothers) who became Turner’s agent and the rest is history.
That’s how luck works. “Chance” events combined with the willingness to recognize and seize upon them. Here’s another “lucky movie star” true story.
Harrison Ford didn’t cotton to school and didn’t do well there but it gave him a chance to try out acting. He liked it and was told by his acting classmates that he could get acting work in California so he drove out there in his old Volkswagen. He didn’t do too well getting acting jobs and needed to support his wife and two children so he taught himself carpentry from a book and was “lucky” enough to get a job building a recording studio for the Brazilian composer Sergio Mendes. He did a good job and was recommended to others in the Hollywood community. He built a deck for Sally Kellerman (Mash) and worked as a stagehand for the rock group, The Doors. One day, he was building a doorway in a studio and was spotted by George Lucas who was casting a new film.
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Ford got the job, beating out Nick Nolte, Kurt Russell and Christopher Walken. The movie was “Star Wars” which became one of the most successful films ever. And those lucky breaks propelled him into super stardom.
In entrepreneurship, luck plays a critically important role. For example, Michael J. Mauboussin relates the following in a Fast Company article:
“One of the greatest computer programmers of all time grew up near Seattle. He saw an upstart company, Intel, making computers on a chip and was among the first people to see the potential of these so-called microcomputers. He dedicated himself to writing software for the new device and, by one account, ‘wrote the software that set off the personal computer revolution.’ In the mid-1970s, he founded a company to sell software for micro-computers. In the early history of the company, “the atmosphere was zany,” and “people came to work barefoot, in shorts,” and “anyone in a suit was a visitor.” But the company was soon highly profitable, and by 1981 its operating system had a dominant share of the market for personal computers that used Intel microprocessors. For all of its early triumphs, the company’s watershed moment came when IBM visited in the summer of 1980 to discuss an operating system for its new PC. After some negotiation, the two companies struck a deal. In August 1981, retailers offered the company’s software alongside the brand new IBM PC, and the company’s fate was sealed. The rest is history, as they say. In case this story’s not familiar, here’s the ending. This pioneer of computer technology entered a biker bar in Monterey, California, on July 8, 1994, wearing motorcycle leathers and Harley-Davidson patches. What happened next is unclear, but he suffered a traumatic blow to the head from either a fight or a fall. He left under his own power but died three days later from the injury, complicated by his chronic alcoholism. He was fifty-two years old. He is buried in Seattle and has an etching of a floppy disk on his tombstone. His name is Gary Kildall. You’d be excused for thinking that the first part of the story is about Bill Gates, the multibillionaire founder of Microsoft. And it is certainly tantalizing to ask whether Gary Kildall could have been Bill Gates, who at one point was the world’s richest man. But the fact is that Bill Gates made astute decisions that positioned Microsoft to prevail over Kildall’s company, Digital Research, at crucial moments in the development of the PC industry.
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When IBM executives first approached Micro-soft (the original name of his firm) about supplying an operating system for the company’s new PC, Gates actually referred them to Digital Research. There are conflicting accounts of what happened at the meeting, but it’s fairly clear that Kildall didn’t see the significance of the IBM deal in the way that Gates did. IBM struck a deal with Gates for a lookalike of Kildall’s product (CP/M-86), the rights to which Gates had acquired. Once it was tweaked for the IBM PC, Microsoft renamed it PC-DOS and shipped it. After some wrangling by Kildall, IBM did agree to ship CP/M-86 as an alternative operating system. IBM also set the prices for the products. No operating system was included with the IBM PC, and everyone who bought a PC had to purchase an operating system. PC-DOS cost $40. CP/M-86 cost $240. Guess which won. But IBM wasn’t the direct source of Microsoft’s fortune. Gates did cut a deal with IBM. But he also kept the right to license PC-DOS to other companies. When the market for IBM PC clones took off, Microsoft rocketed away from the competition and ultimately enjoyed a huge competitive advantage. When asked how much of his success he would attribute to luck, Gates allowed that it played ‘an immense role.’...”
Speaking of the immense role of luck in business success, here’s story related by Richard Wiseman, author of The Luck Factor, and confirmed in Warren Buffet’s 2005 Chairman’s Letter:
“Barnett Helzberg Jr. is a lucky man. By 1994 he had built up a chain of highly successful jewelry stores with an annual revenue of around $300 million. One day he was walking past the Plaza Hotel in New York when he heard a woman call out, “Mr. Buffett” to the man next to him. Helzberg wondered whether the man might be Warren Buffett – one of the most successful investors in America. Helzberg had never met Buffett, but had read about the financial criteria that Buffett used when buying a company. Helzberg had recently turned sixty, was thinking of selling his company, and realized that his might be the type of company that would interest Buffett. Helzberg seized the opportunity, walked over to the stranger and introduced himself. The man did indeed turn out to be Warren Buffett, and the chance meeting proved highly fortuitous because about a year later Buffett agreed to buy Helzberg’s chain of stores. And all because Helzberg just happened to be
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walking by as a woman called out Buffett’s name on a street corner in New York.”
These are just a few of the types of stories of being lucky that every successful person I have ever encountered has related.
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Secret 2: Luck Is Unconsciously Generated Success Most people think that luck is something that happens to them. If that’s so, why are some people very lucky and others very unlucky? Why do some people win the Lottery where the odds are 177 million to one against them while others can’t seem to get an economic break, no matter how hard they try? Why do some people win the Lottery multiple times where the odds against them are truly astronomical.
Joan R. Ginther of Texas won the Lottery 4 times. The odds against this are about 18 septillion to one. But she’s not the only one. In a few minutes on the web, I found 3 others who’d done the same thing. In fact, in five minutes, I found over 50 people who had won the Lottery multiple times. One of them didn’t win big like the others I mentioned but she won at least $600 in the Florida Lottery 240 times in 19 years and another won $5,000 at least 52 times last year, based on Florida State records.
How do some people do this? My answer is that they unconsciously set things up to create what they experience, what they call their good luck or bad luck. That statement may surprise you but there’s a tremendous amount that most people don’t understand about luck. But I do. How can I make such a seemingly outrageous statement? Because I know how to teach people to become extremely lucky.
I have proof.
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I have trained over 75,000 people around the world in becoming very lucky. Initially, only 81% immediately became extremely lucky but for the last six years, 99.7% have. During the past six years, 99.7% of the participants in my Super Achiever Coaching Program who did at least most of the assigned work successfully achieved their seemingly impossible objectives. I know because all participants are required to submit detailed feedback. Some of these participants individually “fell into” hundreds of thousands of dollars, others “happened to hook up with” their perfect romantic partner, still others defied all odds by “magically” losing large amount of weight without feeling hungry or struggling, and quite a few others “almost instantly” found and were able to buy their dream house, etc. I call this being extremely lucky, don’t you?
If this is the sort of luck that you’d like to develop, read on. More About How Luck Works Have you ever had the experience of losing your keys in your very own home or office?
You knew that you put your keys down where you usually do but when you looked there, you didn’t see them. So you rushed around looking for them but you didn’t find them. Perhaps you started wondering whether you actually had your keys when you returned to your home or office. You wondered if they dropped out of your pocket somewhere. To the extent feasible you looked for them in the possible places but they weren’t there. You felt especially pressured because you were trying to head out for something important. Then, when it was too late to get there, you once again looked where you usually put your keys and they were right there all the time. You just hadn’t seen them. How unlucky!
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You didn’t see your keys because your Unconscious deemed it unsuccessful for you to go where you had intended so, since it controls what you do and don’t see, it ensured that you didn’t see them until it was “safe” for you to do so. It has the absolute power to make you blind to something.
Just think of the times when things went wrong and you said to yourself, “Oh! Why didn’t I see that?” The answer to your question is that your Unconscious made you blind to it.
That’s an example of how bad luck works. Good luck works in a similar fashion. A part of your Unconscious “decides” that it would be successful for you if it gives you something and it causes you to be in the right place at the right time doing the right thing for the lucky event to occur.
For example, during her lunch break, Cynthia Jay Brennan of Las Vegas won the largest slot machine jackpot in history - $35 million. It only took 15 minutes.
She was in the right place at the right time doing the right thing to have good luck.
However, shortly thereafter she was paralyzed and her sister was killed when hit by a drunken driver who had 17 previous arrests for drunken driving.
She was in the right place at the right time doing the right thing to have bad luck. Why would her Unconscious possibly decide to put her where a drunken driver would run into her?
Based on my extensive successful experience in coaching people to turn their bad luck into good luck, I speculate that a part of Cynthia’s Unconscious “decided” that she was unworthy of her initial good luck and “decided” to balance the scales.
Cynthia later said that the money she had won had helped her immensely with dealing with being confined to a wheelchair as a result of the accident. In a sense, that balances things out... or at least her Unconscious might “conclude” that was the case.
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Because luck is the result of unconscious functioning and because, by definition, you’re not consciously aware of what you do unconsciously, it seems like you get what you want – or, in the case of bad luck, don’t want -‐ without conscious effort. The usual conclusion is that it just happened or that some outside force did it. But the truth is that luck is unconsciously generated success.
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Secret 3: You Have Remarkable Resources to Make Yourself Lucky You have a much greater ability to unconsciously influence your environment than you probably realize. Yes, you have tremendously greater control of the world around you than most people believe. For example, you may be aware of the work of Uri Geller, the Israeli psychic who bent spoons with his mind.
I know a great deal about Geller because he and I were considering doing a joint venture to train people to function psychically, after I demonstrated that I could do that with the CEO’s and Leading Groups of some of my major clients. Geller demonstrated bending a spoon that he later gave me and I still have in my collection. He held the spoon in one hand and very gently stroked it with a finger of the other while he said to himself, silently, “the spoon is bending, the spoon is bending.” And it did, in just a few seconds.
Skeptics, such as James Randi, claim that the way Geller does this is by pre-‐bending the spoon repeatedly until, in engineering terms, it is fatigued – it’s lost its strength and can be easily bent with one finger. While that’s a facile explanation of how Randi, a magician, might do that, it’s not correct in Geller’s case. How do I know? Because the Naval Weapons Laboratory (U.S. Government) studied the metallurgical structure of spoons that Geller had bent. They concluded that the spoons could never been bent in the way Randi suggests.
"Geller altered the lattice structure of a metal alloy in a way that cannot be duplicated. There is no present scientific explanation as to how he did this."
Eldon Byrd, U.S. Naval Surface Weapons Center. (This is the first research related to parapsychology conducted at a US Government
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facility to have been released for publication by the US Department of Defense).
Here’s where some of my MIT training comes in handy.
When you bend anything, it curves. As it does, the radius from the center of the curve to the edge on the outside of curve (the outer fiber in engineering terms) becomes greater than the radius to the inner fiber. So the outer fiber must stretch while the inner fiber must compress. There are long-established metallurgical tests that visually show this effect that occurs whenever anyone physically bends anything beyond the elastic limit (the point where it distorts rather than just rebounding when you let go). This effect was entirely absent from the spoons that Geller bent mentally so the researchers at the Naval Surface Weapons Center concluded that the spoons could not have been bent physically – despite what James Randi suggests.
When Geller kept stroking the spoon after it bent, it broke and the bowl fell to the ground. Once again, experts concluded that this couldn’t have occurred by physically bending the spoon.
"The Geller method of breaking is unlike anything described in the (metallurgical) literature, from fatigue fractures at-195 degrees to brittle fractures at +600 degrees C."
Prof. John Hasted (Professor of Physics Birkbeck College, University of London, England)
Other carefully controlled tests of Uri Geller’s skills of mentally manipulating the physical world were conducted by Stanford Research Institute. In them, Geller mentally erased parts of magnetic computer tapes. Even Randi couldn’t come up with an explanation for that one, to my knowledge. What’s more, there have been lots of press reports of ordinary people mentally bending spoons when they got together in “spoon bending” parties. For example, University of Arizona Psychology Professor put together such a party for his students, but in a scientifically controlled situation and a number of them successfully mentally bent spoons. Just search on Google under “group spoon bending” and you’ll get lots of hits.
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If you’d like a bibliography of some of the research on Geller performed by highly reputable researchers at major research institutes, go to: http://www.uri-geller.com/books/geller-papers/gpap.htm
Even more interesting is that when Geller appeared on television in the U.K., demonstrating his mental spoon bending, the Guardian newspaper started to receive reports of children around the country replicating what he had demonstrated. So they published a request for verified reports of this occurring. To be verified, it had to be attested to by at least three adults in writing, stating that they had observed the phenomenon. The Guardian received over 400 such validated reports.
I met with Geller in his palatial home in Redding, outside of London and was startled to see that his living room was furnished with stacked glass chairs by Salvador Dali. I asked him how he afforded that and he told me that he was then earning lots of money by spending 6 weeks each year psychically prospecting for major mineral and oil companies. I verified that he was then earning about 35 million U.K. Pounds (about $218 million in current dollars) per year taking only a percentage of the finds he successfully made. He described how he psychically scanned maps for likely locations and then flew over them in a helicopter to pinpoint them.
Geller performed his psychic prospecting for some of the major mineral and oil companies in the world. Visiting the Solomon Islands for the opening of the Zanex Mavu gold mine Philip Rennie, an oil and mineral engineer, found Uri Geller who was doing some psychic prospecting in these potentially rich islands. Rennie said,
“If you had asked who I thought I might meet on a visit to the Solomon Islands to look at gold mining, Uri Geller's name would not have been high on the list. What would the renowned Israeli born psychic powers demonstrator, famous for his spoon bending act, be doing in this sleepy little South Pacific country? On another island in the Solomons group, Malaita, Zanex wants to explore for both gold and diamonds, ...Uri Geller, after flying over the island, supported the view that Malaita is prospective for both gold and diamonds. What, you ask very reasonably, does Geller know about prospecting? The answer is, reportedly, enough to earn £50 million in the last 5 years from royalties (U.S.$ 311 million adjusted for inflation). He looks at maps and areas and advises companies where to drill, charging a royalty on resultant
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finds. No great detail is available, but he is said to have pointed the way to both oil and mineral discoveries. Geller abandoned his stage career of spoon bending, clock stopping and starting, psychic drawing, etc. but has found a niche in commerce. It was the late, hardly lightweight Sir Val Duncan of Rio Tinto Zinc (one of the world’s largest mineral extraction companies) who is credited with starting Geller on his prospecting career.”
When I met with Uri Geller back during the 1980’s, he explained that it takes a lot of energy to perform such things. He told me that he had to exercise four hours per day to do continually do it.
However, it doesn’t take much effort to psychically influence the people in your environment – because it’s an entirely natural process that takes place unconsciously and that anyone can do.
When I used to perform live (rather than Internet-based) trainings around the world, I had my students perform an exercise that very clearly demonstrated this. I asked for a volunteer who, when identified, I accompanied to another room where I gave him or her a piece of card stock with a bold horizontal line and a bold vertical line, crossing at the center of the page. The vertical line was labeled A at one end and B at the other. The horizontal line was labeled C at one end and D at the other. I also gave the volunteer a simple pendulum, a lead weight at the end of a 12 inch long piece of string. And I asked her or him to center the weight over the center of the paper and to say silently and repeatedly to themself, “The pendulum is moving for A to B, the pendulum is moving from A to B...” Every time I did this, the pendulum responded by starting to move from A to B, first in a sort of wobbly fashion and soon in an absolutely straight line. This happened because the volunteer’s unconscious mind took this repeated statement as an instruction and “invisibly” manipulated his or her body to make the pendulum move as instructed. Then, while the volunteer was still practicing in the other room, I took aside 20 of the main body of students and told them to just observe the volunteer when they returned, until I gave a signal. At that point, each was to silently repeat to him- or herself, “the pendulum is moving from C to D, the pendulum is moving from C to D...”
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I next brought the volunteer back into the room where he demonstrated what I had told him to do. The pendulum moved in a perfectly straight line from A to B and back. Then I gave the signal to the other students and the pendulum started veering from the A to B straight line. First it moved in a elliptical path from A to B, then a circular one, then an elliptical one from C to D before settling into a straight line from C to D. You can try this yourself with a group of friends. You might all be quite surprised at the results if you follow my instructions.
Since there was only one volunteer, what was broadcast by the unconscious minds of the other twenty swamped his own instructions to his Unconscious and the will of the mass prevailed. But it doesn’t take numerical superiority to influence others in subtle but effective ways. Usually, it just takes a small “psychic nudge.”
I and a lot of my coaching students have fun “creating parking spaces.” In my coaching program, we each build an imaginary mechanism for instantly getting our unconscious mind’s attention and having it put a high priority on implementing whatever we instruct it to do. Using this, when I’m heading out to a movie, a restaurant or to visit a friend where the parking is difficult, I instruct my Unconscious to create a parking space right in from of where I am heading. Usually, when I get there, I not only observe one person departing to leave me a perfect parking place but several. How does this work? Think about a time when you decided to leave a restaurant. You could have left a few minutes earlier or a few minutes later but at some point you felt it was right and left. Usually that point doesn’t particularly stand out, it just seems like the right time, doesn’t it? As with the pendulum exercise, if I send a signal to your Unconscious that this is the time to leave and if it is within that acceptable window, you probably will do so, right then.
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That’s what happens when I or one of my students creates a parking space, at least that’s the way I think it works. I’ve interviewed a number of the people who pulled out when I “created a parking space” to find out their experience and they all said something like, “It suddenly seemed the right time to leave so I got up and said, ‘Let’s go’.”
Uri Geller didn’t know how he did the amazing things he did and he told me that he didn’t want to know because he was afraid that knowing would kill his ability to do them. He just told his unconscious to bend the spoon and it did. Your unconscious also has remarkable abilities to influence your world that it will use to make you very lucky if you know how to tell it to do so.
The bottom line is that luck is unconsciously generated success and your Unconscious has lots of resources to effectively implement what it decides to do. And when those are what you want to happen, you’ll probably say, “How lucky.”
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Secret 4: The Basics of Becoming Good-Lucky Conceptually, becoming lucky is pretty simple. But, as in most things, the elegance is in the details of implementing these concepts.
“God is in the details.”
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Here, I’ll discuss the concepts. In subsequent Secrets, I’ll get into the details. To become good-‐lucky, you just need to effectively:
A. Tell Your Unconscious What You Want Write out what you want, editing until it seems perfect. When it intuitively seems perfect, that’s feedback from your Unconscious to your conscious mind that you are basically on track. But if you have nagging thoughts such as, “I can’t do that” or “I just can’t have what I want,” that tells you that you have unconscious roadblocks that will prevent you from getting what you want (see E, below). B. Prioritize What You Told Your Unconscious to Do Your Unconscious is processing millions of things simultaneously. Unless you let it know that what you want should have a high priority, it will get tossed in the hopper with all the rest. That doesn’t mean that your Unconscious won’t produce the result you want but it certainly sharply reduces the probability of that happening.
C. Be Open To New Experiences.
Lucky people constantly recognize opportunities in chance encounters. They are open to them and expect them to happen. They are relaxed about finding them. Almost no day goes by that I don’t have a “lucky” experience, although most of them have limited impact. Be open to and pay attention to
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what’s going on around you as your Unconscious attempts to give you what you are asking it to create.
D. Expect That Your Ship Will Arrive and Carefully Check Whether It
Has. Surprisingly enough, most people don’t expect and don’t see the lucky opportunities when they appear and their lucky ship just sales by. However, lucky people do. D. Give Your Unconscious Appropriate Ongoing Feedback If you want to learn to become lucky, you have to define what you mean by that (by picking relevant experiences) and give your Unconscious appropriate feedback that tells it when it has done what you want and when it hasn’t. E. Resolve Any Roadblocks (Self-Defeating Unconscious Habit
Patterns) That Prevent You From Being Lucky Some people get the opposite of what they wish for because, in effect, their Unconscious has things “wired backwards.” Others get nothing or only a fraction of what they want because their Unconscious “decides” it isn’t appropriate for them to have what they want. If this is what’s going on with you, you’ll have to resolve these self-‐defeating unconscious habit patterns into self-‐supporting ones before you’ll become good-‐lucky. If you do all of these things effectively, you will become a lot luckier. Keep reading and I’ll tell you how to do all of them.
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Secret 5: It’s Easy To Get Started Becoming Luckier. You Can Sharply Increase Your Luck By Telling Your Unconscious What You Want. There are two aspects of this: A. Home in on the times when you’ve already been lucky and ask your
Unconscious to “Do It Again!”
B. Create a very clear and precise statement of what you want and ask your Unconscious to create it.
Home in on the times when you’ve already been lucky and ask your Unconscious to “Do It Again!” It doesn’t matter whether you come up with lots of examples or just a few. If you need to prime the pump, ask your friends to tell you about some of their lucky breaks. You’ll find that most people can readily do that. I’m luckier than most so when I just started listing my lucky breaks, I came up with 46 major ones in 5 minutes.
For example, many years ago, I was flying from London to Washington, D.C. and I noticed a woman changing seats two times before she decided to sit in the empty seat next to me. We started chatting and, since I always used to fly First Class with mostly business travelers, I asked her what she was in. She told me she was an Executive Vice President of one of pioneer independent phone companies, MCI. I asked her how things were going and she recounted a tale of woe. That gave me a chance to tell her how I could train her team to turn her woes into successes. We set up a meeting for the next morning to meet with her team and discuss what I had to offer.
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In those days, if you went to a business meeting, you wore a nice suit and tie. That didn’t bother me because I had several of those in my luggage but British Airways didn’t bring my luggage with me. It was still in London, as they quickly determined when it didn’t show up on the baggage carousel. Instead of seeing this as an unlucky event, I told British Airways I had an important meeting the next morning and that they’d have to buy me a good suit, shirt, shoes, etc. Because I traveled around the world monthly in First on British Airways, they quickly gave me a budget of $1,200 so I went to Nordstroms department store, found the right suit, got it fitted the same evening, found a nice pair of shoes and showed up at the meeting the next morning properly attired. By the way, I got a major contract from MCI – and a new suit and pair of shoes - out of those lucky events.
I’ll bet that as you read that, you remembered at least one of your own lucky breaks, didn’t you. If so, record it before you forget. If not, search the Internet for “lucky break” stories and ask your friends for further examples, in order to prime the pump. Pretty soon, your Unconscious will get the point and start giving you memories of your own lucky breaks. Be sure to record them. Doing so will further prime the pump. When you’ve got a list, remember the first event on the list and, when it is really clear, imagine putting that memory into your Heart Chakra (the center of chest) and say to yourself, “That’s a lucky break. Please give me more lucky breaks.” Do this with each of the other examples on your list. Then, at the end of the day, see what lucky breaks you experienced during that day and add to the list. Do this every day, winnowing your list to the “best” examples. Create a very clear and precise statement of what you want and ask your Unconscious to create it. You already know how to do this. It’s where all of those years in English classes will pay off. Translate your intuitive wish into a clearly stated written instruction to your Unconscious.
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First, write out what you want, how you want to be lucky.
For example, “I will find a parking place at Joan’s on Third Café when I have lunch with Gloria today at noon.”
Edit that until it seems intuitively perfect for you.
As I read this, I realized that I want the parking space to be there when I get there and I want it to be large enough so other cars won’t bump into my Porsche. (Those dings are expensive to fix.) So I edited what I wrote until I was fully satisfied with it. (Note that the changes are in bold type.) “I will find a large parking space as soon as I arrive, right in front of Joan’s on Third Café when I have lunch with Gloria today at noon.”
When what you have written seems intuitively and intellectually perfect for you, imagine placing that into your Heart Chakra saying to yourself, “Please make this happen in ways that are for the highest good of me and of all concerned.” When you’ve done that you’ve completed this step. However, if you have thoughts or feelings that tell you that you won’t get what you are asking for, you are almost certainly encountering Blockers (self-‐defeating unconscious habit patterns) that can stop you cold. If so, see Secret 10.
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Secret 6: You’ve Got To Get Your Unconscious Mind’s Attention Before It Will Pay Attention To Your Request. That’s Also Easy. Your Unconscious has a tremendous number of things to do to keep you alive and functioning and it has a built-‐in priority that puts issues dealing with your survival at the very top of the stack. If you want it to put something other than a survival issue near the top of the stack as well, you’ll have to do something to make that happen. You already know how to do: through repetition, as you did when learning your lines for a school play. If you repeatedly read, or far better, write out your request to your Unconscious, its priority on giving you what you request will grow and grow. Functionally, this works by getting a part of your brain called the Reticular Activating System (RAS) focused on what you are repeatedly asking your Unconscious to give you. Your RAS is a part of your brainstem that determines whether and, to what extent, you are awake and alert. It is one of the parts that keeps you focused on something. You’ve probably observed it in action.
Let’s say that you’re like me and are considering buying a new car, a Porsche Panamera. You may read about it in magazines, visit dealerships and otherwise become quite familiar with it, repeatedly focusing on it. Pretty soon, because this action stimulates your RAS, you’ll start seeing Porsche Panameras all over the place – not because they suddenly become more populous but because your RAS has you focused on paying attention to their distinctive physical characteristics whenever even the smallest distinctive aspect of them comes into your field of vision. Similarly, I remember a study perhaps 40 years ago. The participants who repeatedly imagined themselves finding currency on the sidewalk had a much higher rate of doing so that the control group. Again, the key was stimulating their RAS so that they paid particular attention to anything that could be currency as they walked along, whereas most people don’t even look.
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Your Reticular Activating System is a mechanism in your brain that your Unconscious uses to keep you focused on something, a mechanism that it triggers when you have done what’s necessary to increase its priority on that something.
Just remember back to when you had to learn your lines for a school play. Your repeatedly read and, perhaps, said your lines out loud until you reached the point where, when you got the cue, they just rolled off your tongue almost automatically. Or remember learning to sing a popular song that you liked. Through repetition, you reached the point where whenever you heard a chord of that song, the rest of the song and the accompanying words popped into your conscious mind.
So get your Unconscious to increase its priority on giving you what you want by repeatedly reading, or even better, writing your request to it as well as asking it to give you lucky breaks. When you do, your RAS will make you more aware of those lucky chance occurrences. Again, however, if this repetition triggers feelings or thoughts that you won’t or can’t get what you’re asking for, you’re almost certainly running into Blockers (self-‐defeating unconscious habit patterns) that will probably stop you cold. Or, if your Unconscious is “wired backwards,” it will give you the opposite – the result of another Blocker. Being Unconsciously “wired backwards” was something that the researchers at the Princeton University Engineering Anomalies Research Institute (PEAR) found that some people repeatedly demonstrated.
The Dean of the Princeton Engineering School set this Institute up to find out why some people were “computer jinxes” while others were not. During ten years of research, they found that, at an incredibly high level of statistical significance, anyone could mentally control any electronic, mechanical or nuclear device they tested. As Uri Geller did when stroking a spoon, they instructed their test subjects to just repeatedly say to themselves, “The graph is going up” or something similar to the situation... and the graph went up. However, they found that some people experienced the graph going down when they told it to go up. This was because they were unconsciously “wired backwards.”
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Some people are “wired backwards” in terms of success and being lucky. The more they try, the less successful and less lucky they become. This is because they have self-‐defeating unconscious habit patterns operating. (More about that in Secret 10.)
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Secret 7: Be Open To New Experiences Because They Will Include Chances To Be Lucky. Lucky people constantly recognize opportunities in what they encounter because they are open to them.
For example, I was open to the MCI Vice President who bounced around from one seat to another in the airplane before settling down next to me. I was open to the possibility that what she’d done wasn’t crazy but that she was unconsciously looking for me. And that’s something she realized had been the case after we’d been working together for while.
As related above, Barnett Helzberg Jr. was open to the extremely unlikely chance that when he thought he heard someone say, “Mr. Buffett,” it was THE Mr. Buffett, the investing wizard who is the third richest person in the world and Chairman of Berkshire-‐Hathaway – and who eventually bought Helzberg Diamonds through a tax-‐free exchange of Berkshire-‐Hathaway stock. Be open after telling your Unconscious what you want and great lucky things can occur.
For example, I used to go out only with women who had only a particular type of appearance. However, when I went looking for my Perfect Partner, my Unconscious directed me to eHarmony. There, the third candidate that they sent me didn’t look at all like what I thought I was looking for. But there was a resonance about what she had to say and the picture of her in yellow slickers with baby penguins exploring her really intrigued me. So I opened myself to something new.
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That was Gloria, who is now my wife and is “practically perfect in every way,” only one of the thirty-two characteristics I was seeking in my Perfect Partner. Each day with her is a joy. What if I hadn’t been open to someone who looked different from what I expected?
The bottom line of this Secret is that lucky people are open to unlikely chance occurrences that sometimes turn out to be lucky breaks. In contrast, unlucky people say to themselves something like, “That’s not what I am looking for” and ignore such opportunities.
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Secret 8: Expect The Lucky Thing You Have Requested To Show Up And Act On It When It Does Lucky people expect good things to happen to them, recognize them when they do and act on them when they appear.
This is what psychologists call a “confirmation bias” and everyone else calls “a self-‐fulfilling prophecy.” If you believe that you are lucky and act accordingly, there a much higher probability that’s what you’ll get than if not.
“Luck is believing you’re lucky.” Tennessee Williams
Unlucky people don’t expect to be lucky and that’s what they get. By the way, that’s another Blocker in operation. Richard Wiseman, a psychologist at the University of Hertfordshire, studied a group of about 400 self-‐identified very lucky and unlucky people for about ten years, conducting some interesting experiments. He found that the lucky people consistently encountered and recognized opportunities whereas unlucky people didn’t. In an article, “The Luck Factor,” Wiseman, author of a book by the same name, related:
“I gave both lucky and unlucky people a newspaper, and asked them to look through it and tell me how many photographs were inside. On average, the unlucky people took about two minutes to count the photographs whereas the lucky people took just seconds. Why? Because the second page of the newspaper contained the message “Stop counting – There are 43 photographs in this newspaper.” This message took up half of the page and was written in type that was over two inches high. It was staring everyone straight in the face, but the unlucky people tended to miss it and the lucky people tended to spot it. Just for fun, I placed a second large message half way through the newspaper. This one announced: “Stop
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counting, tell the experimenter you have seen this and win $250.” Again, the unlucky people missed the opportunity because they were still too busy looking for photographs.”
Going back to my request to my Unconscious to immediately find a parking space directly in front of Joan’s on Third Café, the occasion was my very first in-‐person meeting with my now-‐wife Gloria after meeting and communicating with her through eHarmony.
Gloria lived in the Hollywood Hills area of Los Angeles and I lived in Santa Barbara at the time. That meant I had to drive about 90 miles to meet her. At the time, I was not at all familiar with Los Angeles and had no idea of what to expect, assuming I even found Joan’s. So, before leaving Santa Barbara, I made my request of my Unconscious and set my GPS. Happily, I arrived five minutes ahead of the agreed time, fully expecting my parking space to be there, awaiting me.
As I was swiftly driving down Third Street, I noticed that there weren’t any open parking spots. Then, just after my GPS said I was 300 yards from my destination, I saw a space. But it was about 900 feet from my destination, not right in front of it so I ignored the space and continued. Sure enough, as my GPS announced that I’d arrive at my destination in 100 feet, I saw someone pulling out of a parking space and, when I glanced to its right, I noticed that it was right in front of Joan’s. That’s the space I took. If I hadn’t been expecting to find what I’d asked for, I’d probably have parked 900 feet away and been a little late for my appointment but, expecting to get what I’d asked for, I was just a little bit early. And I think that’s pretty important on a first date.
So ask your Unconscious for what you want and keep your eyes open, expecting it to give it to you.
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Secret 9: Train Your Unconscious To Make You Lucky By Asking For What You Want And Giving It Appropriate Feedback. In your normal life, if you’re trying to learn to do something that’s new to you, you know how critically important it is to get constructive feedback from someone who already knows how to do that. The same is true for your Unconscious. If you want to become a lot luckier than you already are, you have to train your Unconscious to do something other than what it’s already doing.
"If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got."
Henry Ford (although often attributed to Tony Robbins)
Since you consciously decide whether you have been lucky or not, your job is to clearly show your Unconscious what you think is a lucky break. Here’s an easy way of doing that.
• At the end of each day, just before you go to sleep, sit down with a pen and a piece of paper or at your computer. On a page divided vertically in two, label the left-‐hand column Successes and the right Failures.
• Then review your day, looking carefully for any good-‐lucky experiences,
your Successes, and any failures to be lucky where you were expecting to find Successes, your Failures. Record all of each type in the appropriate column and date the document.
• Starting with the first Success, remember that experience. In your
imagination, using your skill of Hindsight, make it even better. When it is truly great, imagine placing it in your Heart Chakra (the center of your chest) and silently say into your Heart Chakra, “That’s what I consider a lucky break. Please give me more lucky breaks.” Then take a deep breath and exhale sharply.
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• Do this with each of the other Successes on your list.
• Next, starting with the first Failure, using your skill of Hindsight, change
that remembered Failure into an Imaginary Experience of being lucky. When it is truly great, imagine placing it in your Heart Chakra (the center of your chest) and silently say into your Heart Chakra, “That’s what I consider a lucky break. Please give me lots of lucky breaks.” Then take a deep breath and exhale sharply.
• Repeat this for each of the Failures on your list. In the process, you’ll, in
effect, be telling your Unconscious to “turn lemons into lemonade.” You’ll soon become able to do this quite quickly and will note that you get more lucky breaks, if you keep your eyes open.
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Secret 10: Turn Unconscious Habit-Patterns That Prevent You From Being Lucky Into Ones That Will Make You Lucky. Our unconscious minds run our lives. They ensure our blood is pumped and determine what we do and don’t see, what we do or don’t do and how lucky we are. They do this through a series of complex unconscious habit-‐patterns such as you developed as an infant that enabled you to easily stand up and walk or to easily and pretty automatically drive a car. Sometimes, however, unconscious habit-‐patterns that were once successful become unsuccessful as we change and the contexts of our lives change. If that’s the case, they turn from success-‐producing to self-‐defeating. If that’s the case, you’ll typically become aware of them when something you want doesn’t happen or when you seem unable to do something – such as being lucky in a particular situation. I call these self-‐defeating unconscious habit-‐patterns Blockers because they are roadblocks that prevent you from being or having what you want. If you have Blockers that prevent you from becoming luckier, even when you do what I’ve previously described, you need to re-‐train your unconscious in ways that transform those self-‐defeating unconscious habit-‐patterns into self-‐supporting ones. To find out more about this, read Posts 6 and 7 on my Success Blog: http://stuartlichtman.com/blockers where I explain the process. Or if you want detailed visual and audio instructions in actually resolving those Blockers, read my eBook: http://www.anything-‐fast.com/ where I tell you exactly how to resolve self-‐defeating unconscious habit-‐patterns into self-‐supporting ones. When you do this with respect to becoming luckier, you’ll probably be startled at the positive impact.
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Secret 11: You Can Take Your Luck To A Profoundly Higher Level Via Cybernetic Transposition. What I described in Secret 10 is only one of the many aspects of Cybernetic Transposition. Cybernetic Transposition is the process of consciously managing your unconscious mind to consistently achieve seemingly impossible results that I first invented over 30 years ago and have been improving ever since. It is what I teach in my Super Achiever Coaching Program that empowers the participants to have a 99.7% rate of very rapidly becoming extremely lucky. I offer three increasingly powerful levels of training in the Cybernetic Transposition techniques. They all start with my Second Edition eBook system. (Please note that the links below are live. Just click on them.) This system consists of a 396 page main book in both print and Audio Book format, 14 “application specific” Bonuses that tell you how to apply Cybernetic Transposition to such things as accomplishing as much in half the time with better results, easily and quickly losing weight and finding your Perfect Partner. It also includes 8 Audio Guidance segments that lead you through key Cybernetic Transposition processes. To learn more, go to http://www.anything-‐fast.com/. On that page you will find lots of information and a video in which I briefly explain my eBook system. Take a look at what quite a few users of my eBook system and participants in my Super Achiever Coaching Program have to say about their successes resulting from applying what I teach: www.stuartlichtman.com/files/success-‐stories.pdf. These resources will empower you to become far luckier if you employ them, so lucky that you will probably be astounded. I offer a 100% satisfaction guarantee so you can try them with absolutely no risk. Don’t delay taking action. Visit the site right now and get started: to http://www.anything-‐fast.com/.
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