Believing in luck will drive your nuts!
Author: Harvey Cohen

Are you ready to give up the notion that you have to be lucky to be successful or that you have to be at the
'right' place at the 'right' time......or that you have to connect with the 'right' biz opportunity to prosper and thrive?

Here we are at the start of the greatest communication, information, economic, marketing, and creative revolution (the Internet) the world has ever known. We are
witnessing an explosion of opportunities for enormous fortunes beyond ordinary comprehension. Yes, enormous fortunes are being made by some and absolute zilch is being made by most others.

Why do some people prosper and thrive while some people struggle under the very same conditions and very same opportunities? Is it intelligence? C'mon, you know better
than that. Is it hard work? No way. If that were true, then..... the wealthiest people on the planet would be coal miners and steel workers. (You are surely aware that there are plenty of struggling hard workers and legions of hardly working successes.)

Hey, successful people are not successful because they are lucky, even though it may seem that way. People that struggle do not struggle because they are unlucky, even though it may seem that way.

The only reason it may seem that way is because we have been hypnotized to believe in luck, good and bad. We pick up beliefs, superstitions and attitudes from others, and behave as if they are true. Behavioral scientists and psychologists call it conditioning. And layers of conditioning have a way of becoming hard-core habits.

Why is it that some people are successful even in the worst economy under lousy circumstances while some people continue to struggle even in a booming economy, under the best of circumstances? Uh! Uh! Don't say luck.

WILLIAM JAMES, father of modern day psychology, said, "The greatest discovery of the 20th century is that our state of mind determines our quality of life, not circumstance."

That means that an open-minded, optimistic person will have more rewarding results in the endeavors than a narrow-minded, pessimistic person, UNDER THE VERY, VERY EXACT SAME
CIRCUMSTANCES! Do you think successful people can be successful if they were narrow-minded, doomers and gloomers? No way, Jose'.

Successful people are successful because their optimistic, open-minded, positive attitude sees opportunities that are invisible to narrow-minded pessimists and are aware of life-enhancing creative ideas that are blocked by the habitual struggle minded.

Hey, not everyone has an optimistic or pessimistic attitude about the same things, or the same degree of optimism or pessimism about the same things. Isn't that interesting?

That's why not everyone in a wheelchair, or who is sightless, or who is physically challenged in some way considers themself unproductive or useless. (You know who they are.) That's why not everyone who is well-off in many ways are happy and content. (You know who they are.)

Doctors agree that an optimistic, hopeful, positive patient is a better candidate for healing and recovery than a pessimistic, negative, 'woe is me' patient. The evidence is overwhelming.

An optimistic, hopeful state of mind always releases life-enhancing endorphins into the body that are withheld from a pessimistic state of mind. Worry, fear and concern bring
about stress, the forerunner to all dis-ease.

This should blow you away:
A 20/20 - ABC TV report found that the number one reason for the longevity of healthy, enthusiastic, mentally alert and physically active men and woman over 100 years of age is...an optimistic, hopeful attitude. Not diet, not exercise, not drugs, not good luck. The evidence is overwhelming.

Yes, attitude determines your quality of life, not circumstances. Believe it or else!

Attitude, negative or positive, is the ENERGY that effects your physical, mental and spiritual well-being, not circumstances. Luck? Get off it!

O.K., so you've heard a gazillion times before; 'A positive mental attitude is an important element for a healthier, wealthier and happier life'. However, a positive, optimistic, open-minded, hopeful state of mind is the ABSOLUTE ESSENTIAL ELEMENT for achieving personal and professional goals. Wanna bet?

Just by expanding your mind-set to a more expansive awareness than you have a habit of having, the greater opportunities and ideas that seem to be out of reach...... easily find you. That's the way it works.

Indeed, the phenomenon of 'ATTITUDE' surely deserves your very serious investigation, because............believing in luck will surely drive you nuts!
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Harvey Cohen, Ph.D., author, lecturer, optimum performance consultant to Fortune 500 companies, conducts self-discovery seminars for personal and corporate growth. His unique manner for communicating universal truths will free you to live your life in the most joyous and prosperous way. Harvey's books and tapes are used world-wide as self- empowering resources by doctors, therapists and educators for their patients and students.

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Harvey Cohen, Ph.D., author, lecturer, optimum performance consultant to Fortune 500 companies, conducts self-discovery seminars for personal and corporate growth. His unique manner for communicating universal truths will free you to live your life in the most joyous and prosperous way. Harvey's books and tapes are used world-wide as self- empowering resources by doctors, therapists and educators for their patients and students.

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