Luck
Luck

Author: Barrie Dolnick

Publisher: Harmony

Published: 2007-11-06

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0307405303

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Have you ever noticed that you talk about luck every day of your life? Luck is your silent companion, sometimes bringing awesome parking spaces, a chance meeting with a new love interest, or a small windfall. Most of the time you probably don’t even pay attention to luck. Chances are, you only really think about luck when you buy a lottery ticket or participate in a contest. Luck is so much more than that. If you take steps to live longer by eating right and exercising, why wouldn’t you also take similar steps to improve your good fortune? Barrie Dolnick and Anthony Davidson asked themselves this very question, and set out to study luck and decipher how it works. In this insightful and engaging book, they share the secrets they’ve uncovered so you can use luck more effectively in your day-to-day life. Where does luck originate? Does one need to be “born lucky” in order to be lucky? Answering these and many other pressing questions, Dolnick and Davidson investigate both ancient and scientific approaches to luck. From early man to famous rationalists, luck has been prayed for, played with, and courted. You’ll learn how ancient practices such as the I Ching, astrology, tarot, and numerology have been used to understand luck, and how great mathematicians studied luck–some guided by their own interest in gambling. Every- one wants to be lucky. Once you know the fundamentals of luck, the authors take you through your own Personal Luck Profile so that you can use this wisdom and try your luck. People do a lot of weird things to improve their luck–and now you can make smart choices and informed decisions about how to play with yours.

Best of Luck
Best of Luck

Author: Rhiannon Cree Kirshner

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2018-08-30

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 1532039336

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Rhiannon Cree Kirshner has found her creative voice in a world that has seemingly forgotten how to embrace one. Within a collection of thoughts and ponderings that shine a light on heartfelt self-examination, Kirshner provides a roadmap to clarity for all those who may be struggling with artistic expression. In a collection broken down into two parts that begin with “Maybe I write to ...”, Kirshner shares simple phrases that reach out to creatives who may be in a rut, perhaps do not know the right questions to ask, and those who may have returned to their core after years of compliance with crushing social norms. Through words that are daring and touching as well as earnest and robust, Kirshner offers a window into the heart of creativity while encouraging artists to reflect on why they do what they do. Best of Luck shares empowering sayings that provide artistic enlightenment for anyone on a journey to seek an authentic way to creatively express themselves.

Beginner's Pluck
Beginner's Pluck

Author: Liz Forkin Bohannon

Publisher: Baker Books

Published: 2019-10-01

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1493419161

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There's no lack of people out there telling you to find your passion and dream big. But why does it seem like when we try, we so often end up more lost and overwhelmed than when we started? Liz Forkin Bohannon wants you to rethink everything you've been told about finding your passion and following your dreams. Why? Hate to break it to you, but you're likely never going to "find your passion." Because your passion and purpose are something you build--actively--day by day. In her signature tell-it-like-it-is fashion, Liz shares 14 actionable principles that will teach you how to do just that. With total transparency, Liz shares hilarious and heartbreaking stories of her journey of screwups and successes that illustrate the mindsets and principles that will give you a jolt of energy, inspiration, and direction toward your True North. By embracing your Inner Beginner, dreaming small, choosing curiosity over criticism, and so much more, Liz's story and the principles of Beginner's Pluck will have you on your way to building a life of purpose, passion, and lasting impact. Ready to rise to the occasion? It's time to make this life everything you want it to be. ****** "Brave, practical, and true, Liz shares her magical journey for anyone brave enough (and generous enough) to want to go on the journey of a lifetime."--Seth Godin "I met Liz more than a decade ago in Gulu, Uganda. Beginner's Pluck is a thoughtful book about what Liz has been strategically doing in the world, not merely optimistically hoping for. Her authentic voice is one I trust because I've seen what she's done. As you flip these pages, you won't want to be more like Liz. Instead, you'll want to figure out what your next steps are to release your passions, hopes, and love into a world which is in desperate need of someone just like you to engage it."--Bob Goff, hon. consul for the Republic of Uganda and author New York Times bestsellers Love Does and Everybody Always "I am SO VERY GLAD this book exists. We have long needed Liz's expert voice speaking into the minds of dreamers and doers, the ones who have the ideas and want to execute, and the ones who are exhaustedly executing. We want purpose in our day, and Liz does it with her life and teaches it here."--Annie F. Downs, bestselling author of 100 Days to Brave and Remember God

The Luck of the Buttons
The Luck of the Buttons

Author: Anne Ylvisaker

Publisher: Candlewick Press

Published: 2011-04-12

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 0763654612

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In Iowa circa 1929, spunky twelve-year-old Tugs vows to turn her family’s luck around, with the help of a Brownie camera and a small-town mystery. (Ages 8-12) Tugs Esther Button was born to a luckless family. Buttons don’t presume to be singers or dancers. They aren’t athletes or artists, good listeners, or model citizens. The one time a Button ever made the late Goodhue Gazette - before Harvey Moore came along with his talk of launching a new paper - was when Great Grandaddy Ike accidentally set Town Hall ablaze. Tomboy Tugs looks at her hapless family and sees her own reflection looking back until she befriends popular Aggie Millhouse, wins a new camera in the Independence Day raffle, and stumbles into a mystery only she can solve. Suddenly this is a summer of change - and by its end, being a Button may just turn out to be what one clumsy, funny, spirited, and very observant young heroine decides to make of it.

Born to Good Luck; or The Boy Who Succeeded
Born to Good Luck; or The Boy Who Succeeded

Author: Self-made man

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2022-08-21

Total Pages: 121

ISBN-13:

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"Born to Good Luck; or The Boy Who Succeeded" by Self-made man. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Have a Good Year: 365 Ways to Get Good Luck
Have a Good Year: 365 Ways to Get Good Luck

Author: Michael Junem

Publisher: Muslim School

Published: 2022-12-17

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13:

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Like Islam, Good Luck has 5 pillars: physical powers (Making Good Luck), Balancing powers (Feng Shui), Earth powers (Spells and Charms), Spiritual powers (Prayers), and Mental powers (Manifestations). Total Good Luck Humans have 4 major healths: physical, mental, financial and spiritual. Each of the 5 pillars of good luck are categorized and detailed for each of the 4 major healths, listing more than 500 ways to get good luck for your major healths. The good luck pillars listed here have brought millions of people contentment and tranquility. Here is a brief description of each: Making Good Luck: A study of over 1,000 people who consider themselves lucky and unlucky was made and the research of how their lifestyle increased their good luck is identified. Chinese Feng Shui: Ancient Asian belief system based mainly on increasing good energy via the placement of certain objects in relation to certain elements. The belief system is similar to a computer circuit board where certain components made of various elements are placed in a particular pattern to create a desired flow of energy. 18 Wiccan Earth Magic: Nature based belief system using crystals, candles, herbs and incense to summon energy. Wiccans are diverse and differ in their belief system, for example, there are Christian Wiccans who only use their Lord to summon magic. Jewish Bible: The Holy Book of Judaism, the first Abrahamic religion, Monotheists who believe in all the Prophets prior to Jesus. Christian Gospel: The Holy Book of Christianity, the second Abrahamic religion, who believe in the Messiah Jesus is predicted in the Jewish Bible Muslim Quran: The Holy Book of Islam, the third Abrahamic religion who believes Prophet Muhammad is predicted in the Jewish Bible and Christian Gospel, Islam is also the fastest growing religion. Charms: Various earth items believed through history to attract certain energies, similar to plutonium emitting radiation, certain crystals, amulets, and symbols are also believed to emit certain energies. Manifestation: The art of visualization and materializing good energy via a combination of belief systems

Diamond Jubilee Luck
Diamond Jubilee Luck

Author: Luck Area Historical Society

Publisher: Russell B. Hanson

Published:

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13:

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The history of a rural village in Northwest, Wisconsin. Luck is known as the home of the Duncan Yo-Yo company from the 1940s - 1960s. It is a Danish community in a rural, lake filled part of Wisconsin, an hour NW of Minneapolis and St Paul MN.

The Myth of Luck
The Myth of Luck

Author: Steven D. Hales

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2020-07-23

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1350149314

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Humanity has thrown everything we have at implacable luck-novel theologies, entire philosophical movements, fresh branches of mathematics-and yet we seem to have gained only the smallest edge on the power of fortune. The Myth of Luck tells us why we have been fighting an unconquerable foe. Taking us on a guided tour of one of our oldest concepts, we begin in ancient Greece and Rome, considering how Plato, Plutarch, and the Stoics understood luck, before entering the theoretical world of probability and exploring how luck relates to theology, sports, ethics, gambling, knowledge, and present-day psychology. As we travel across traditions, times and cultures, we come to realize that it's not that as soon as we solve one philosophical problem with luck that two more appear, like heads on a hydra, but rather that the monster is altogether mythological. We cannot master luck because there is nothing to defeat: luck is no more than a persistent and troubling illusion. By introducing us to compelling arguments and convincing reasons that explain why there is no such thing as luck, we finally see why in a very real sense we make our own luck, that luck is our own doing. The Myth of Luck helps us to regain our own agency in the world - telling the entertaining story of the philosophy and history of luck along the way.