Creating your own luck

We all know those people who seem to be incredibly lucky. They seem to get all their own way and all the fortune comes to them. For some people this is truly a stroke of luck but for many it is due to their internal optimism, their positive outlook on life and the belief that everything is good.

The brain is an extremely powerful tool. We learn in Neuro Linguistic Programming that your brain can only ever focus on 8/9 cues at any one time. Probably three as a main focus, sometimes one and the rest remain in the background until one requires your full attention. To add to this each individual will be looking at different cues. So for example if you ask two people to look out of the window and ask them to say the first thing they notice. It is highly likely that each one will be completely different. It could be what they see, what they hear or even what the feel.

Our cues can be determined by past events, our experience our likes and dislikes. And this in turn can affect what cues we assess first. For example if you have financial concern money worries and the like your brain will focus on these. So the next time you drive into town, read a newspaper or watch the TV, your brain will focus the most on adverts, stories and articles that involve financial problems. Before you know it you start to feel down like the whole world is against you.

That's why when someone says to you have you seen that new product which has just been released and you say No. You then spend the next week seeing it everywhere.

You see, those people who get all the luck think positively. Say for example you start to focus on being successful, maybe earning more money. Your brain will start to highlight the stories, articles, advertisements all which are about success/ earning more. When you keep this up for a while you will start to notice opportunities arising and lots of them. Before you would have thought it's lucky I saw that job advert. It must be my lucky day. But now you know that just be thinking positively you can create your own luck.