“Your Most Important Opportunity,” says a top UK Personal Development Coach. Written by Jo Ball
For some people this article will turn out to be one of most important things they’ve ever read. I say this because some people are ready to get to grips with life. In next year some people will put their lives on map. They’ll know clearly what they intend to have happen and, more importantly, why. Do you want to be part of crowd making switch to dizzying heights of happiness – and when I talk about "happiness," I'm talking about real "Happiness"? Do you want to feel good after a fulfilling day at work? Do you want to live a dream relationship? Do you want you to be building wonderful bonds with your children, easily, and taking steps to reach your full potential as a human being? If you do, good news is this: change can be easy. Here is how… First, stop ignoring your instincts: that slumping feeling or that feeling of nausea or little voice in your head that says: 'I want more out of life than I'm getting.' Accept it as part of you and welcome that feeling. Is it telling you that you’re not being rewarded or is it saying you are not being fulfilled in work? Or is feeling hinting something else is not right – relationship with your partner or your children?
| | Changing Your LuckWritten by Sam Stevens
In this week's New Age Notebook, I am going to address a subject that often comes up in chat rooms: LUCK. Why is it that some people seem to be born with horseshoes up wazoo while others battle an endless string of disasters and setbacks?Is there such thing as being born under a lucky star? Is it karma or a curse? While some are eternal victims of Murphy's Law: "if something can go wrong, it will.", others seem to be able to get away with murder and suffer no consequences at all. Luckily, I came across a very interesting article in London Telegraph about this subject by Richard Wiseman, a researcher who has been studying extremely lucky and very unlucky people for past ten years. His goal was to find out if it was possible for anybody to become "luckier." Wiseman asked hundreds of people who felt they were either "very lucky" or "very unlucky" to fill out diaries and take part in questionnaires. I. Q. tests and experiments. The findings have revealed that although unlucky people have almost no insight into causes of their good and bad luck, their thoughts and behaviour are responsible for much of their malfortune. First he refers to what is called "chance opportunity" or "lucky break." We all know that lucky people consistently encounter them, while unlucky people do not. Wiseman performed a test in which he asked both fortunate and unfortunate people to search through a newspaper and find out how many photographs were inside. On average, unlucky people took about two minutes to count photographs while lucky people took just seconds. Why? Because second page of newspaper contained message: "Stop counting. There are 43 photographs in this newspaper!" This message took up half page and was written in type that was more than five centimetres high. It was staring everyone in face, but unlucky people tended to miss it and lucky tended to spot it. For fun, Wiseman apparently placed a second large message halfway through newspaper: "Stop counting. Tell experimenter you have seen this and win $700£." Again, unlucky people missed opportunity because they were still stuck in past -- too busy looking for original 43 photographs. So it seems that being too obsessed or attached to pursuing one goal, tends to make you somehow blind to opportunity and somehow unlucky. Personality tests also revealed that unlucky people are generally much more tense than lucky people, and research has shown that anxiety disrupts people's ability to notice unexpected. The harder they looked, less they saw. Unlucky people miss chance opportunities because they are too focused on looking for something else. Wiseman opened a "luck school, conducted all kinds of experiments and in end concluded that lucky people generate good fortune by using following three techniques:
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