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11 Companies and People that you Wouldn’t Believe Failed (and how you can Succeed like them)
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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Get Lucky by Quitting
I had a friend in high school who was proud of himself because every time someone told him that he should quit smoking, he…
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Get Lucky by Playing the Matching Game
You look at your watch and with great excitement you notice that it is 5:oo PM and time to leave the office to head…
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Take as Many Shots as you Can, No Matter How Bad
On Saturday night I had the privilege of going to a hockey game with my brother to see the Montreal Canadiens play the Washington…
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What Should I Read Next?
To get lucky, you need to constantly be learning and opening up new horizons. Whatever area it is that you want to get lucky…
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Make Tomorrow Count by Using Today
“Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever…
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Changing Places: How a Move can Increase your Luck
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…
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Get Lucky by Facing Your Fears
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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I love Me, Who Do You Love?
One thing I am realizing more and more is that nobody likes you more than yourself. You can learn many lessons from this, here…
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40 Ways to Increase Your Luck (100th Post)
Take a Different Route – By taking the same route to work, school, the gym, mall or wherever you are going each day, you…
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Use Your Connections to Get Lucky
I had the unfortunate experience of having to rush to the emergency room 2 Friday nights in a row and have learned a…
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Can you do the Impossible?
Last week I wrote a review of Tim Ferriss’ book The 4-Hour Workweek and I wanted to share the story below from the book…
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If a Square Watermelon is Possible, You have to Rethink Everything You Thought was Impossible
I’ve always wanted to visit Japan. I am people watcher, I love to travel, see new places and see how people live their lives. …
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Never Do Anything Again Without a List
I have been thinking a lot lately about wasting time and how to stop doing it. I think that it might be me trying…
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How to Get Things Done With No Time
Have you ever had multiple things to do and a limited amount of time to do them? Did you have trouble figuring out what…
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Get Lucky by Being Above Average
Chances are that the people all around you are average. There may be a couple here or there that are above average at something…
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Was I Lucky or Unlucky? You Choose!
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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Is a Silver Medalist The 2nd Winner or the 1st Loser?
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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How Bad Luck Can Turn into Good Luck
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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Putting Luck into Practice
I just want to give a quick apology for not posting over the last week and a half. I have spent a few months…
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The Gorilla Turned out to be a Bear
A while ago I wrote a post “Stop Trying So Hard to Get Luck” where I spoke about people concentrating so hard that they…
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Get Lucky in a Recession
I was just skimming through my rss reader when an article by Lazy at www.lazymanandmoney.com hit me. The title, “Why a Recession Doesn’t Have…
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Lucky People Take the Loss
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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Dreaming Has a Low ROI
Last week I was riding the Long Island Rail Road on the way to a meeting and I noticed a great ad for CareerBuilder.com.…
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Get Lucky Like the Irish
Being that it is St. Patrick’s day today, I decided to look into a little bit of the origins of the day. Since this…
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Mission Impossible or Possible: Get lucky With a Mission
A mission is a powerful goal with purpose and meaning behind it. I have spoken about the importance of making goals and writing them…
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More Ways To Get Lucky By Learning A Foreign Language
I just got back from Buenos Aires this weekend and have been sick as a dog since then. Maybe I’ll write an article on…
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What My Trip To Argentina Taught Me About Luck
I am writing this article from my hotel room in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I am here for a very short 24 hours on business…
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Get Lucky by Investing Your Time with Compound Interest
Time is the Most Valuable Asset The most valuable asset in the world is time. Time is the only asset in the world that…
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Flexible People Get Lucky
To get lucky you need to be extremely flexible and I don’t mean being able to touch your toes or even put your foot…
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