“Luck? I don’t know anything about luck. I’ve never banked on it, and I’m afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work — and realizing what is opportunity and what isn’t.” –Lucille Ball

Did you achieve what you have today as a result of luck? According to Forbes Magazine, in a poll of the 400 richest people in the world, none of them believed luck was responsible in their acquiring their wealth though a small percentage believed it was a minor factor.

Unless you’ve won the lottery or were left a huge inheritance by a wealthy aunt, odds are you’ve worked hard to get where you are. If you’re a student of mine, I am absolutely positive that you’ve put a lot of intention, energy, thought and work into your current situation.

I do, however, believe in the power of attracting to you what you want. I believe I’m a lucky person. I wouldn’t say I’ve achieved what I have in life because I’m lucky, but I would say that luck can be magnetized to ourselves just like anything else and used to enhance what we’re already achieving.

For the past eight years a man named Richard Wiseman has studied what makes some people lucky and others not. Mr. Wiseman is the head of the psychology department at the University of Hertfordshire in England. He believes after thousands of interviews and experiments, he has finally figured out the key to being lucky. Not surprisingly (to me, at least) this is the same thing that is behind the law of attraction.

Lucky people think and behave in ways that create more luck and good fortune in their lives. This is at their very core. This is the same way people who consider themselves money magnets, magnetize money or freak magnets, magnetize freaks. Whether conscious or subconsciously, they are absolutely attracting what they are putting out in the world.

Playwright Tennessee Williams said it best, “Luck is believing you’re lucky.”

The bible says, as you sow, so shall you reap. In other words, your thoughts, feelings, intentions, deeds, and expectations, whether they be good or bad, will repay you in kind. Have you ever heard anyone say, “I’ve never won anything. I’m simply not lucky”? This will remain the case because this person has made this state of mind their expectation.

I’ve heard many people say, “I’ve always been unlucky in love.” Are they ever going to find that elusive love connection? No. Because their thoughts are not in congruity with what they want.

In researching this idea I came across the blog “How to Be Lucky” at http://www.problogger.net/archives/2006/03/14/how-to-be-lucky/ and found some really valuable pointers on how to increase your luck (ironically or not given as a list of 13 factors).

If you’ve never considered yourself lucky, it’s time to reorient your thoughts to draw that to your life.