Welcome back to “The Alphabet of Happiness – 26-day challenge,” where Klaudia Mitura shares daily, science-backed happiness tips in celebration of her new book.
In today’s episode, Klaudia explores L for Luck.
Klaudia reveals how believing you’re lucky actually shapes your behaviour and increases positive opportunities in life, as shown by research. She explains that lucky people don’t self-reject—they share their ideas and take chances, while those who see themselves as unlucky often hold themselves back.
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Hello happiness seekers, My name is Klaudia. Welcome back.
This is 26 Day Boost where I'm bringing you 26 days of science backed happiness principles one for every letter of the Alphabet to celebrate my brand new book the Alphabet of Happiness. I hope that you're tuning in every day to get your practical tip in under five minutes designed to give your mood a real boost.
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Remember that if you are tagging people and you are talking about the Alphabet of Happiness, also tag me in your posts so that you can enter into Prize draw to win one of the three signed copies of the Alphabet of Happiness. You can find me on LinkedIn @Claudia Mitura or on Instagram heappinesschallengea. And today's letter is L for Luck.
And lots of people get often surprised by the choice of this letter.
But there is just fascinating research out there which shows that our mindset and more specifically whether we believe we are lucky or unlucky in life actually shapes the way we behave and therefore impacts our happiness and life satisfaction.
We have a fantastic researcher here, Richard Wiseman, who showed through a set of different studies that if participants were changing their mindset and they started to behave like yes, I am a lucky person and good things will happen to me, 80% of the participants felt happier and more satisfied and often that was because they would change their behavior and therefore they would have an increased number of positive opportunities in their lives. So often participants would report getting rid of bad luck, they would report situations of kind of lucky breakthroughs.
They would talk about those specific opportunities that happened in their life, but often it was because they believed they were lucky and therefore they changed their behavior.
And in the Alphabet of Happiness I cover four specific behaviors that we tend to adopt if we think we are lucky, which in turn shape our happiness and life satisfaction.
And one of those behaviors is that if we believe we are lucky in life, we are less likely to self reject, so we are less likely to believe that other people will judge us harshly and therefore we are more likely to start something new because we often because if we believe we are unlucky we'll self reject our business ideas so we never take the first step to talk to the investors we self reject our creative work and we never show it to other people.
So often self rejection hinders our ability to create luck because we do not take the first step towards the happiness we want and the difference between lucky and unlucky people is that lucky people do not self reject they take that risk of a first step. So today's action for you is to share your work, share your idea, share your art with other people. Let others be the judges of it.
You'll be pleasantly surprised how supportive people can be. So don't self reject believe that lucky opportunities will come your way and therefore take the first step towards something you care about.
So I hope you have found this idea provoking and you will do it and engage with it. I hope to see you tomorrow at the next letter and another happiness boost. Bye Sam.
