Do you know how to react when luck strikes you?

Yes, you read it right: not bad luck, but luck.

Most of us are used to feeling bad luck and reacting to these types of events. We often establish defensive behavior methods, even preventive ones (without anything actually happening), to deal with bad luck.

There are people who spend their whole lives waiting for the next stroke of bad luck. Which obviously never fails to arrive, simply because we all face difficulties and everyone has their own.

Maybe spending time envying those who, at least in their eyes, are lucky.

But, unfortunately (it must be said), they are not prepared to react when the stroke of luck arrives. And many of us have this “vice”, even if we don’t consider ourselves particularly unlucky.

It seems impossible, rationally speaking, but many people do not know how to accept luck in life.

It’s a bit like with freedom: everyone wants it and calls for it, but when it actually comes to exercising it, the vast majority backs down.

Of course, whether it’s luck or freedom, lots of wasted opportunities follow. With the consequent lurking regret.

When luck knocks on our door, we must open it.

Here are 7 tips to train yourself to react well to strokes of luck:

1. Work on your personal growth

This means questioning the pre-established (often rigid) way in which we are used to considering our personality… and sometimes we are unable to “disobey” our definition of “unlucky”, as well as a whole series of characteristics that we have made our own . Starting to consider the possibility of including being lucky in our identity is a big step;

2. Accept change

In our daily lives we easily fall into the trap of making it too routine. Habits are necessary to a certain extent because they simplify and optimize the expenditure of physical or mental energy, but when they are too many and not updated they are no longer good.

We can start building new habits, in this case ask ourselves: “What are the habits of lucky people?” and let’s start growing them. Furthermore, we change the way we see ourselves every now and then: it is a mental opening, it helps to unblock us and open up to the new;

3. Cultivate gratitude

Gratitude is an indispensable ingredient both in misfortune and in luck. I know, in some people the question already arises: “And what is there to be grateful for when bad luck is hitting me?”. I would answer with another question: “If you can’t find anything to feel grateful for now (for example, even for the simple fact of being able to speak or having the vital impulse), what makes you understand that you will do it when you will luck strike?”. In fact, most people with this mental attitude find no reason to be grateful for a lucky event. But there is a big drawback to this: we tend to lose what we don’t appreciate;

4. Train yourself to perceive luck

It seems incredible, but some people fail to notice the luck that has come into their life. They don’t see it.

All very successful people or those who have achieved significant results know very well how to notice luck, they appreciate lucky coincidences and consequently react promptly and proactively. Is it a coincidence, in your opinion?

Furthermore, the more we are able to perceive luck, the more we will be able to include being lucky in our identity;

5. Cultivate trust

Often people who consider themselves unlucky are actually just disheartened. I know, difficult experiences easily wear you out and discourage you.

Sometimes it happened that we renewed our faith in something, but again it didn’t go the way we wanted. Here, in these cases trust is even more important: continuing to believe that life is on our side and that perhaps not achieving something could have been our luck, even if it doesn’t seem like that at the time (usually it takes time to reveal something like this). Or, it may simply not be the right time to get it, even if we’re not clear on why. Usually this concerns the dynamics of personal evolution and learning some significant life lesson, and it is difficult to find out in advance (it usually becomes clear later in time);

6. Cultivate perseverance and foresight

Sometimes people who consider themselves unlucky actually just give up too soon, perhaps one step away from completion. Throwing in the towel early is also the characteristic of short-sighted people, who want everything right away.

But if trees and plants had this attitude, we would never get to eat the fruit. The farmer knows that he will not eat for a long time after planting. The lucky ones know how to wait and know that the most important thing is to be prepared to seize the moment when luck strikes. They don’t waste energy wondering when it will happen;

7. Learn to rejoice in your own luck and that of others

It seems banal, but it isn’t: many people don’t even rejoice at a lucky coincidence, fearing that joy will bring bad luck. Wrong. First of all, because in this way the self-fulfilling prophecy is built (and bad luck really comes). And then, because we are not appreciating luck.

I’m not saying to have a huge party or flaunt it from the rooftops (actually sometimes it can be counterproductive), but we can do it by allowing ourselves to feel that joyful flame inside ourselves (among other things, it helps to build our identity as lucky ones). Joy is not always noisy, and it does not require noise to be called joy.

And as regards rejoicing in the fortunes of others (a sore point for many), it is good to keep in mind that luck is infinite: everyone has their own, it is relative (what for some is luck may be bad luck for someone else) and it multiplies when it is shared… when we rejoice for others, we are in fact sharing it.

And you, do you know how to react to strokes of luck? Share your experiences, opinions and strategies in the comments!