Blog by: Lata Advani Viseu

I keep hanging on,
waiting for the wind to change
I watch the sun go down,
and I keep hanging on,
waiting for my lucky day
waiting, for my lucky day
Waiting for My Lucky Day – Chris Isaak

Do you consider yourself lucky or does bad luck seem to follow you everywhere?

I have been thinking about this for some time and in the last few weeks I have been coming across the word “lucky” frequently which made me think about writing about this topic.

It reminded me of a documentary that I had watched a few years ago, about a man who considered himself the unluckiest man, but I could not remember the details of the story. The next morning, I saw a post on a Facebook group detailing the exact same story. Lady luck was smiling down on me and giving me the go-ahead to write about it!

The story goes, to make him feel lucky, the unluckiest man’s friends decided to set up ways to make him feel lucky and filmed him.

They placed a hundred dollar bill on the ground so that he could find it, but he walked right past it. They made it easy for him to win in several ways, but he kept walking past without seeing the items placed strategically for him.

When his friends stopped filming and told him that they had done everything to make him feel lucky but he kept missing the signs, he responded by, “You see! That’s because I’m so unlucky!”

You will notice that when you focus on the negative and think of yourself as jinxed or unlucky, you somehow bring about more unfortunate or unlucky events in your life. At other times you miss opportunities even when they stare you in the face because you label yourself as unlucky.

When one bad or negative thing happens in your day and you say, “this is the worst day of my life, everything is going wrong”, have you noticed that you prove yourself to be right and you begin to get more of those things that seem to go wrong throughout the day?

Unless you consciously make an effort to stop those thoughts and instead focus on what is going right, you will continue to attract “bad luck”.

Many years ago, I consciously decided to be grateful for everything in my life, even those events that I would have considered bad in the past, I now think of them as lessons learnt and things to be grateful for.

When I decided to focus on all the things, I had to be grateful for, I immediately felt like I had begun to attract lady luck. Now when things don’t go the way I would like them to, I can quickly pivot and change my thoughts and let go of the fear, anger, hurt or whatever emotion I am feeling.

At times it takes a lot longer, and I need to write down my thoughts or talk to someone about it when I feel hurt and then I let go of those feelings because I know they are harmful to my body as well. Most of the time I can let go of those emotions in an instant and forgive and forget.

If you want to attract good luck in your life, first set an intention to be lucky. I repeat in my mind daily that I am lucky and good luck follows me everywhere.

When things seem like they are not going the way I want them to, I remind myself of the fable “Good Thing, Bad Thing, Who Knows.” (what you think is bad now can turn out to be something positive in the future).

Forgive yourself and others and let go of any guilt you may have of things in the past because when you hold on to guilt and shame you will find it hard to believe you deserve good luck.

Let go of things you cannot control and go with the flow. Trust that the Universe always has your back. To change my negative thoughts, I find three things I am grateful for as soon as I become aware of those negative thoughts.

With another year unfolding, start fresh by writing down your goals or your bucket list, small and big, then imagine the feeling you would feel when you accomplish each goal.

Spend time with positive people who lift you up and focus on the good. Find your tribe and keep them close.

I find that when I am grateful, I attract more things to be grateful for. Instead of focusing on all the things that are not going right at the moment, I make a conscious effort to bring my focus back on all the things I have to be thankful for.

How about starting the new year by setting an intention to be lucky or even better yet why wait, start right now. Set your intention to be lucky and let the Universe work its magic for you.

“Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.” – Dalai Lama XIV

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.” – Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

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