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Luck in everyday life.

Stories, questions and practical ideas from the Get Lucky archive.

9 articles in this collection. Original publication dates are shown on each article.

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Unlucky Failures Unlucky people look at failure as an end, a dead end. If you fail, that part of the journey is over and…

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I was just thinking about Nickelback’s song “If Today Was Your Last Day” and it really struck a chord. He talks about the best…

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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…

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If you are human (or Scooby), you have fear. Everyone fears something, it is just how we deal with the fear that determines if…

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Two Novembers ago, I was on my way to a friend’s wedding in a car service. I took the car service straight from…

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Jerry Seinfeld has a bit about how winning a bronze medal in the Olympics is better that winning a silver medal in the same…

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David spent his whole childhood dreaming of joining the army as a fighter pilot. Everything he did in school and his social life…

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A year and a half ago I was shopping for my first car ever. I never needed one until then because I live…

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Everyone knows the famous advice “if life throws you lemons, make lemonade”, meaning take whatever bad life throws your way and turn it into…