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Your Beliefs

How To Get Lucky

by Natalie on March 7, 2010 · 7 comments

We all want a little luck in our lives, right?

Check that. We want buckets of the stuff. We want luck stalking us and spamming us and kneeling at our feet.

But what is luck, really?

Some would have you believe that luck is a mythical beast, and that those who say they are lucky are just lying to make the rest of us feel better.

Some would persuade you that luck is kind of a meandering and vaguely dipsy do-good fairy, whose Wand of Fortune makes a random appearance every now and again (but is never to be relied upon for a star turn at children’s parties.)

But most of us would agree that luck is out there, somewhere. We just wish there was a way to summon it to us (heeeeeere lucky lucky lucky! Come ‘ere luck! Here boy!) and make it stay (down luck, down! gooood boy.) Ok, enough with the doggy talk already. continue reading…

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Why Being Authentic Hurts Like Hell

There is so much being said in the blogsphere about the importance of being authentic. “You must be truly you”. Why?
Because in a world where connections are made in seconds between complete strangers, there is only one shaky platform upon which this immediate gift of trust is built; the belief that the person behind the [...]

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How Are You Caging Yourself?

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If you have an accent, I can tell where you’re from or where you’ve lived. If your speech is highly refined and your vocabulary complex, I can tell you’ve been buffed by your parents or your education to a gleaming shine. And probably you like to read quite a bit.
In the UK especially, the way [...]

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Chris Brogan, Hype and Prima Donnas

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Chris Brogan posted the fifth video in his Overnight Success series yesterday, and it really got me thinking about the idea of belief systems and how people get sucked in to the story of their own hyped-up greatness.
You see, coming from the opera biz, I know a lot of people who appear to be huge [...]

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