Here are some more lucky quotes to think about: “I don’t believe that old cliche that good things come to those who wait. I think good things come to those who want something so bad they can’t sit still.” -Ashton Kutcher There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. -Roger Staubach All of...
Read more →As many of you may know, a few weeks ago, Google launched Chrome, their new internet browser. Since this site is all about “getting lucky”, I decided to wait a little while before posting about this major step for Google so that I can apply a lesson to Chrome instead of just announcing the...
Read more →Mitch Hedberg , the comedian has a famous bit that when he is in bed and thinks of something funny he has to either get out of bed and find a pen and paper to write it down or convince himself that whatever he just thought about was not funny. Everyone is pretty much...
Read more →I’m a big Simpsons fan… or at least I was when I used to watch the show. I even wrote my high school thesis on Homer. One quote of Homer’s that’s been running through my head lately is “Trying is the first step towards failure”. I’ve been thinking about this because I am about...
Read more →As you may know, both this site and Sucky Poems went down last week for a couple of days. It turns out that the 1and1 databases were not compatible with the upgrade to the newest version of WordPress and it wiped out one site’s database while messing up many of the features of the...
Read more →If you are human (or Scooby), you have fear. Everyone fears something, it is just how we deal with the fear that determines if it will cause good or bad luck. It could be fear of what people will think, fear of not having enough money, fear of rejection, fear of the government or...
Read more →I want to give you, my readers an apology since Get Lucky has been down for the last couple of days. I upgraded my wordpress to the latest version and something went wrong in the process. I tried contacting my hosting provider 1and1 and I have never had such a bad tech support experience...
Read more →On Thursday I wrote that Seth Godin only likes to do something if he can do it “really well” which is consistent with his message to companies to be “remarkable”. Now while that is great advice for a company to only do things well that you can be remarkable at, I don’t believe it...
Read more →I spent some time today messing around with some of the settings on this blog. I’m always trying to improve the site and make it as easy for you, the reader to get the most out of it. Every once in a while you may notice a new feature or small change on the...
Read more →Picture Credit Problogger posted a while back about a conversation he had with Seth Godin about Twitter. Seth mentioned that he doesn’t use twitter and barely even uses Facebook. He feels that if he does something, he wants to do it really well (which is a whole other post) and it’s better not to...
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