Conversely, the malignant aspect of luck is often blamed by those who fail, or meet with some seemingly inexplicable series of reverses.

We all know people who are admired, and said, perhaps a little grudgingly, to be "Lucky in everything they undertake."

We are also familiar with those whose every effort is apparently plagued by bad Luck. Inasmuch as many individuals in the latter group seem as highly motivated and as tirelessly active as those in the former, we have come to accept the possibility that Luck is an unpredictable attribute raising those who are blessed with it to vast heights, plunging those whom it eludes to great depths.

This myth has become a fixed idea, almost a conditioned response, for millions who thankfully accept superstitious folklore that Luck is beyond their control. This allows their egos to survive. In many cases these individuals attract pity, pity becp,es their face saving motion almost as attractive to them and sometimes others, as success.

The fact is, though, you can make good Luck a constant factor in any project you wish to bring to fruition if you will take positive steps to attract it. It need not be variable if you will acquaint yourself with rules of the game, the chief of which is preparedness, meaning the knowledge to shape the future to your ends.

Luck, barring natural catastrophes... floods, earthquakes, and other uncontrollable examples of misfortune which we sometimes cannot predict only means that sometimes even in these can be found satisfactory solutions.

You can attract Luck with almost mathematical certainty.

Luck, being Lucky is in large part subject to your personality. An adequate self-image, capacity for hard work, careful self-evaluation and on occasion any one or more of a few additional attributes can change a negative and failure prone personality to a positive one who admits no defeat and recognizes that good Luck is not an accident.

To put it paradoxically, "Good Luck" is not a matter of Luck in the sense most people use the word. In ordinary usage, "Luck" has become interchangeable with "Chance," but as shown unlimited times there is a world of difference in the real meaning of these words.

Insecurity and timidity keep one from developing highest potentialities for success. This is in large part one’s own making.

It is euphemistic to say-despite our Bill of Rights, that all people are created free and equal. But not so when reaching that line, "The right to pursue happiness." A person can do a great deal to conquer environment of youth, genetics, social handicaps that cause inequalities if you will study the factor of Luck.

It is the one thing, barring random chance, which can make kings out of paupers and paupers out of kings. Happily, very few individuals enter the world a born loser. We are, with few exceptions, the captains of our fate, and Luck is the helmsman. You can point at any direction on the compass and succeed there, provided you give up antiquated ideas about Luck.

We go far to shape our own Luck, not only on the economic side of our lives, but domestic as well. Today, many seemingly normal people blame their successive failures in marriage on "Bad Luck," but it would be more accurate to say they knew too little about the true nature of their partners. Odds are against two individuals staying in love when their first and last love is all too often likely to be themselves. In the language of psychiatrists, they do not seek to give or share their love, but find an "altar ego" to continually reassure them that their excessive self-indulgence is not unreasonable.

Their "misfortunes" are predictable. Bad Luck seldom plays a role in their immature actions. Information you will read here later has been the subject of major scientific research by mathematicians, psychologists and even gamblers. It provides proof that Luck can be bent to the average person's will if he or she remains in readiness for its appearance.

Luck has been termed with accuracy that, one man's meat is another man's poison, and the same ancient truism applies to Luck. A sudden breeze, for instance, which fills sails of one racing contestant will not affect those who have embarked on a different tact, and they will be left becalmed and far astern. Very often, however, the sailor who catches that freshening breeze is the one who has made an exhaustive study of wind patterns in a locality where sailing is common.

In a recent international race a veteran skipper surprised his own crew by pointing his craft on a tack which left sails flapping aimlessly while the rest of the racers took advantage of a spanking breeze that moved them forward to better direction for achieving their objective.

Within two minutes, however, wind veered around to fill the sails of the craft which spectators felt had been eliminated by bad judgment. Before this skipper changed to (click here for rest of text)