Life Coaching and Career Development

I don’t believe that I’m lucky. I regard competitions, lotteries and the fall of dice with a dubious eye, never believing that I have any chance of winning. I feel I have to do more; that I must work for it and earn good fortune. So I leave well alone.

However, I see with my own eyes that luck does exist. I know that some people are blessed with luck and good fortune. What I also know is that these are people who believe in it and expect to be lucky. Not that I think belief is enough to make it happen. No. I just think that without belief, it really won’t.

I also know, without any doubt, that confidence has so much to do with everything. (For today’s purpose, I’m thinking confidence = belief).

Recently I wrote a piece on the Law of Attraction. If you don’t know about this: very briefly, you attract the same kind of ‘matter’ from the universe as you have in yourself and that you give out (success/good fortune or failure/pain). I’m sceptical of the quasi-science rationales that are often given as evidence for this, but I glimpse a truth in it.

On plenty of reflection, it seems to be connected to my understanding of luck and luckyness and the ‘success builds on success’ maxim. The point is to be the thing you want to attract. Just wishing and hoping aren’t going to get you anywhere (because they come from negativity?). Belief, pure positivity and receptivity is.

That’s belief in the fact that you will get what you want, that you deserve it, that it will happen and that you can rely on its happening. And that you are completely positive about it and about yourself.

Now I’m wondering if this receptivity, faith and positiveness can have any connection – however tangential, secular and frivolous – to do with the religious activity of praising. I’m not religious, not Catholic and I haven’t done any research on it, so I don’t know. What I do know is that there’s an awful lot of it in the Christian religion, and that I haven’t, until now, been able to see a reason behind the most obvious reinforcing of the idea of God as almighty and wonderful, etc.

I wonder whether this is the same idea  that  giving thanks and gratitude is a way of being and staying positive.

I’ll probably delete this post when I find out that I’ve been hopelessly muddled in my thinking. Halfway down a motorway, when I can do nothing about it, the penny will drop and I’ll see how I’ve displayed my ignorance and foolishness and gone live with only half an idea.

That last thought isn’t very positive, is it?

Filed under: Life Coaching, Uncategorized by Melanie