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To get lucky, you need to constantly be learning and opening up new horizons.Whatever area it is that you want to get lucky in, you need to involve yourself in your interest and surround yourself with tools to increase your knowledge of the specific area.Hang around people who are where you want to be.For instance, if you want to get rich, hang around rich people.Another must do for getting lucky is to read everything you can get your hands on on your topic of choice.
If you are hanging around the right people, they can often suggest the right books for you to be reading but there always comes a time where you are stuck and don’t know what you should read next.Here are a few ways to find the next book to read.
Go to Borders or Chapters or whatever your local bookstore is.
Just go into your local bookstore and browse through the section on the topic of your interest.Look for best sellers, new releases or store recommendations.You can also read a few pages from the books that catch your interest to get an idea of what they are about and if your will enjoy the read.
Surf the net for a good book.
There are websites such as www.whatshouldireadnext.com that ask you to enter the book that you just finished reading and it will tell give you a list of books to read, based on other people’s choices and suggestions who also enjoyed the book you just read.
Amazon.com’s suggestions
Amazon is really good at following up with buyers and sending them suggestions of additional books to purchase. Their recommendations are usually pretty good if you generally buy books that interest you.When I first started using Amazon, it was for college textbooks for random classes.I was getting philosophy and history college textbook suggestions for years.
I’m currently in the middle of a few books that I’m really enjoying.I keep one book in my work bag that I read on my commute, one book is on my night table and one book goes with me everywhere else so that I always have something to read.I suggest every one of them:
“Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today.”
Ernest Hemingway
In September, I started posting “Lucky Quotes” once per month but when I stumbled upon this quote from Hemingway, I had to post it by itself.
I wrote a little while back about investing time with compound interest but from the looks of it Hemingway had the idea first. Today can be exactly like yesterday and tomorrow but if you make today count, it becomes the foundation for the rest of your life. If you spend each day building that foundation, you may not notice any difference in a few days or weeks but if you look back over a year, you are sure to see the fruits of your labor. I saw what one year could do for me.
You can become an expert on any subject by just reading one hour on the topic each day for 3 years. One hour alone will not do much for you. Even a few days won’t do much for you. If you are consistent and read for an hour every day, you can make a huge difference for your future.
I’ve mentioned it before but it is so important that i’ll keep mentioning it. We live in such a great time that there is more information available to read and learn from than ever before and most of it is free. All you have to do is motivate yourself to read it. A quick Google search and you hit gold.
I’ve been away for a little while and I want to apologize since I didn’t plan to stop posting while I was away,I just didn’t have the chance to really sit down in front of my computer for more than a few minutes at a time.I spent the last week and a bit with my family in Beautiful Montreal, Canada, where I grew up, checking out the community again.My family has been looking to move out of New York for the last while and we finally decided on Montreal.Now that we have three kids and our oldest is starting school, we were looking for a simpler life with more grass (and parking spots).
This is going to be the first short post in a series on my decision to move to Montreal.
Change your location and your luck changes
There is an old saying that if you change your location, your luck will change.I am a firm believer in the saying since it has everything to do with Luck.In my description of “Luckortunity” I mentioned the comparison of finding “luck” to an apple orchard where if you collect apples from the same area each day, it will eventually run out but you can always move onto a different section of the orchard and find more apples.If you stay in the same place for too long and do the same things over and over again, your luck runs out.To get lucky again, you need to change things up and look for your luck in a new untouched area.
Luck potential is everywhere
When you’re in a new city, the luck potential is unlimited.Everything is new and fresh for you and the opportunities hit you in the head if you’re open to them.You can look at how people live and do business and then you can compare everything to what you are used to.Then you have twice the tools to build your own business.Sometimes it is so obvious to an outsider what can be done to improve the situation.For example, I was looking for an apartment to rent and most landlords in the area that I was looking didn’t advertise.That’s a perfect opportunity to build an online community poster board for that area.You can also notice that services that are offered in your old city are unheard of in your new city and you can take advantage.
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 just fear of possibility and change.
To deal with fear most people like to just push it aside and live a life that won’t be bothered by fear.They take the safe and secure route in life to minimize fear in the short term.But by doing this, they are playing it safe.They do what society, their parents and friends expect of them, they go to school, get a secure job and never really question anything.It isn’t until many years down the line that they start to question if they made the right choices in life.
When looking back at your life, you will regret not doing more things than you regret doing.
There are so many things in life that we pass up doing because we are afraid of the consequences.I’m not saying to go and do something stupid but the fact is that at the end of the day you will regret not doing more things than you regret doing.So go ahead and take a risk.
People don’t spend their days thinking about you.
Stop thinking about what people think about you and live your life.Don’t worry about anyone else because at the end of the day, you are the one that will answer for what you’ve done and you are the only one that matters.Your parents and friends make their own decision and have made their own mistakes.It’s time for you to make your own decisions and yes, your own mistakes.
The reward is in proportion to the risk.
If you take the secure and boring path, you will lead a boring life.The secure part isn’t even that secure, look at anyone in the financial field these days.If you take risks, there is potential to fail but there is potential to succeed beyond your wildest dreams.The worst case scenario is that you will fail and learn from your experience.After all, failure leads to success.
Courage is when your mission is more important than your fear.
We all have fear and there is no way to get rid of it so you have a choice, push it to the side and never think about it or stare it in the face and kick its rear into place.If you choose the latter, your life will be a lot more exciting and you will get lucky.
