How Lucky Can You
Get?
I met an artist who creates crafts with four-leaf
clovers, which she uses to adorn gift boxes, bookmarks, and other inventive
items. When I asked her how she finds all of these prizes, she explained, “I
just have a knack for it. On my last expedition, I found 150 four-leaf clovers.”
“That’s amazing!” I replied. “How long did it take
you to find them?”
“About fifteen minutes,” she answered.
I was astounded. If you have every searched for
four-leaf clovers, you have likely found perhaps one or two in a fifteen-minute
stint. She found 150! How lucky can you get?
The answer has nothing to do with luck, and
everything to do with belief, expectation, motivation, intention, and focus. The
universe is abundant with all things, and it will happily deliver whatever you
seek ― if your mind is open to receive and you are sufficiently attuned to the
object of your desire.
While many people ascribe the results of their
efforts to luck, fate, karma, astrological influences, and a gamut of external
sources, experience is determined more by consciousness than any other factor.
The artist I described is so immersed in four-leaf clover consciousness that the
clovers show up practically everywhere she looks.
You, too, are finding plenty of what you are looking
for. You can tell what you are looking for by what you are finding. If you are
finding love, joy, connection, creativity, and celebration, that is what you are
looking for.
If you are finding separation, upset, fear, pain, and
conflict, that is what you are looking for.
The Law of Attraction is drawing unto you that which
is a match to the vision you are using.
You can change what you are getting by shifting your
attention to objects you truly value.
Your
attention is the strongest currency at your disposal. Whatever you point it at
grows. So quit thinking, feeling, and talking about what you have gotten that
you don’t want, and think, feel, and talk about what you do want. You will be
amazed at how quickly the universe rearranges itself to accommodate your picture
of reality!
I met a woman who had been told by a doctor that she
had six months to live. She went home and decided that if she wanted to live,
she would have to entirely change the way she was thinking about her life. So
she switched from resistance to flow; from disdain to appreciation; and from
fear to trust.
That was many years ago. Her disease disappeared and health
found its rightful place in her world.
All positive change begins with attitudinal upgrade.
Thomas Jefferson declared, “I find that the harder I
work, the more luck I have.”
I would replace the “hard work” phrase with, “the
more I focus my consciousness on success.”
Have you noticed that people who have bad luck seem
to keep having it?
And people who have good luck seem to keep having
it?
That’s because those with bad luck keep focusing on the
bad, and those who have good luck keep focusing on the good. If people with bad
luck started to focus on the good, their “luck”
would change.
In an episode of the
Northern Exposure television
series, Shelly received a chain letter promising that if she sent a copy of the
letter to five friends within the next day, her entire life would change for the
better. So she mailed the letters, and immediately good things started to happen
to her. Unexpected money showed up, she met a nice man, and she felt great. The
letter worked!
A few days later Shelly returned to the post office,
where the postmaster handed her the letters and informed her that he could not
dispatch them because they had insufficient postage.
Stunned, Shelley declared, “Maybe I’m in charge of
my own life after all.”
In the Bible we are told that we are created in the
image and likeness of God. This means that we have the power to create what we
choose. That power lives in your thoughts, intentions, and imagination.
When Olympic superstar Michael Phelps was
interviewed after winning his umpteenth gold medal, the interviewer asked him to
what he attributed his success. Phelps answered, “Partly to my imagination. I
think constantly about winning the gold.”
Of course he trained a great deal, as well. But his
mind training is as important as the laps he swims.
How many four leaf clovers are out there?
As many as you look for and you are open to receive.
This principle applies as well to wonderful mates, jobs, and buyers for your
house. “Seek, and you will find. Ask, and it is given. Knock, and it shall be
opened to you.”
The laws of manifestation are solid, reliable, and
unbiased. They will gladly work in your favor if you understand how to use them
and you apply them consistently. Then you won’t need “the Luck of the Irish.”
You will have the consciousness of a creator.