Make your own luck...
I've been reading a lot of articles lately about how to be luckier.
My favorite is Bakadesuyo's How can you become more lucky? which I summarize as practicing four traits:
1. Be open to new experiences. Network. Meet new people. Re-engage with people you know.
2. Intuition. Listen to yourself. Meditate to clear your mind regularly.
3. Optimism. The mind is a feedback loop that creates self-fulfilling prophecies, so be positive.
4. Resilience. "Success is moving from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."
To that I add: don't try to avoid pain:
Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you. You just gotta find the ones worth suffering for. (attributed to Bob Marley)
Be open. Be intuitive. Be optimistic. Be resilient. Don't fear pain. Good luck!
This reminds me of Luck Surface Area
The amount of serendipity that will occur in your life, your Luck Surface Area, is directly proportional to the degree to which you do something you're passionate about combined with the total number of people to whom this is effectively communicated.
To satisfy my mathematically oriented brain I've gone one step further and formalized the concept into the equation L = D * T, where L is luck, D is doing and T is telling. This demonstrates clearly that the more you do and the more people you tell about it, the larger your Luck Surface Area will become.
It seems as if you are already aware of this, but still worth repeating...
Thank you for the refresher -- that was worth revisiting Chris!
Success is just a series of failures, followed by one thing that worked: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/20/one-on-one-lane-becker-author-of-get-lucky/
This is where the 90 day rule comes in too Adam. Where you are now is a direct reflection of what you were doing 90 days ago. If you keep this in mind every day, you will be astonished as to where you will end up in 90 days.
Quora answers to the question of whether it's possible to increase your luck: http://www.quora.com/Is-it-really-possible-to-make-your-own-luck
Luck favors the prepared. Fortune favors the bold. And so on.
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