When you take a gamble, you pray for good luck. You roll the dice, hoping for a big score, maybe you cross your fingers, you hold your breathe, and you wait to see what numbers come up. If you’re lucky, you get a reward. If you’re unlucky, you have to try again. Is life anything like gambling? Is there luck involved? Do you feel lucky or unlucky most of the time?
Technically, you control your actions and decisions, which have a dramatic impact on your luck. Attitude, beliefs, and feelings affect our decisions. And each decision determines the next. Therefore, each decision you make, every action you take, builds and creates your circumstances, and you might even say your luck. But is life really a win or lose proposition?
Acceptance Allows Change to Take Place
Sometimes our decisions prove to be bad decisions. The key is to accept things for how they are. You can take actions to change your circumstances, but you don’t want to spend time focusing on how bad things are, because you’ll attract more things to feel badly about. Luck implies we don’t have control over our lives. We don’t have control over outcomes, but we’re always in control of our feelings, attitudes, and beliefs.
It’s difficult to let go of the “I have bad luck” belief when we feel pain or sorrow over a situation, like how we feel when a relationship ends.
The more heavily vested we feel about something, the more its success or failure impacts our feelings and thoughts. Sometimes the fear of failure or fear of loss, keep us in situations that don’t serve our purpose.
How many times have you, or someone you know, stayed in a job that made you miserable, because the alternative, not having a job, seemed like a worse situation than the current one?
Make a Decision to Make Good Decisions
You don’t want to make things worse, so decide you’re going to change your luck, and make good decisions from now on. Things are what they are. But situations are only temporary. They change. And you can positively affect your life by choosing to make decisions that are in alignment with your life purpose. If you’re having difficulty changing your situation, keep in mind that when it becomes more uncomfortable to stay with the status quo, you’ll take the action to change.
Resistance to Change is Normal
It’s completely normal to experience some level of resistance when you are making changes in your life. People backslide into old patterns pretty easily. It’s because we do what we know, what we already believe. It is not because you lack willpower or drive. Our brains and our bodies are programmed to resist change, to view change as a threat.
So give yourself a break if you don’t fully embrace your change immediately. Every positive change you make, is a step in the right direction. When you begin making new decisions, taking new actions, you begin creating a new reality, changing your luck.
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Destiny is the study of consequences. Therefore, think in sequence.
In geometry, when you draw two lines, and the deviation between the two lines is only 1 degree, over the long run, it will make a huge difference.
Small steps taken consistently and often will get you to where you want to go. And perhaps faster than you think. Many drops soon fill a bucket.
To be rich not only in term of financial but also emotional and spiritual and social. Can we get all in these book ?
Tq
Regards from someone in Indonesia
Realise or not, everyone of us creating our own condition in all manner.
I have a question to ask you. I had a rather challenging day today in regards to this. I have been studying and applying the laws of attraction in my life for years. Recently I have been reviewing spiritual awakening classes :
http://www.squidoo.com/find_your_purpose
This all makes perfect sense to me, as does what I read from your blog…
Today, however, was most challenging to me and I fell back wards from all I have learned. I woke up at 4:00 a.m. and arrived to work right on schedule. It was a beautiful day! Everything was in alignment. Work was slow, but I kept a positive attitude. I work as a server in a restaurant, so when I was ready to leave, I ran my report as always, and when counting the money for my drop, I realized I had less money than when I started my day!
I must admit I had a bad reaction to this. It defeats the whole purpose of getting up that early and going to work. I was suppose to make money, not lose it!
I left and visited a park, appreciated nature, being one with the universe/ God, I took several deep breathes, and still I had a hard time letting go of the anger and bitterness.
I did have breaks from this throughout the rest of my day, but only temporary. It seemed I was only pushing the anger back, so it remained in the back of my mind. It would/ will creep back to my thoughts easily. I even spent an hour meditating.
My question is: “How do I get back my good feelings, especially when I think of going to work?”
Luck is created??
Well, it is. My comment might not be directly linked to this great article. But I want to share something about luck, particular in gambling, but please don’t get my message wrongly, I’m not trying to advise anyone to gamble. Just a case studies so that we could learn something with it.
This is a real story or my friend, Jim. I got to know Jim when we were studying at the college; we were even housemate. One of Jim’s hobbies is gambling and he always frequent to the one and only casino we have in this sunny country of Malaysia. He wins most of the time and at one night, he pocketed around $65,000 (around USD18,000), which amazed many of us.
So the question is how does or how did he won those money?
Luck? Or real gambling?
Everytime before he went to the casino, he would tell me or his other friends, “I’m collecting my money at the casino now, want to follow?”
You see, he spoke those words with total confidence and conviction, it is true from his heart. Loosing money is never in his mind (but that does not mean he never lose.)
When I came to know about the quantum physics theory, I realized that he has already won even before he left the house (in his mind), truth his conviction in winning. And in Quantum studies, you and me know that time does not exist which could explains why and how Jim won. The particles shape the winning experiences for Jim when Jim know that he has already won, he was just merely travelling to the casino to collect it.
He once spoke to my other ex-housemate, “Casino is the best place for you to learn making firm decision. Decide it and win it!
When I realize that it was the quantum theory in action, I soon found out that it applies in every aspect of life, and Jim demostrated the way of quantum behaviour in his gambling hobby (or money generation behaviour).