Categories: accountability, fun, investment, worth

Some of you may be totally unaware about the 17 Signs of Good Luck. They have been passed down in secret from family member to family member and now to me. Since I have no children, the 17 Signs might end with me, unless I risk the “curse” and share them publicly. So here goes, fates be damned!

The 17 Signs of Good Luck:

1. Finding a wombat in your bed
2. Going through 2 green lights in a row (3 or more is even better as this one is cumulative)
3. Dogs that bark, “I love you”
4. Waking up at the exact sime time as the digits of your birthdate
5. Snow in any month that ends in -pril
6. Walla Walla Sweet Onion Rings
7. Socks right out of a warm dryer
8. Getting an email about investment opportunities abroad
9. Watching the moon rise
10. Dancing for no reason, with no music, with no one watching
11. Getting the bay leaf from homemade soup in your bowl (don’t eat it or it quickly becomes bad luck)
12. Bath salts from Grounding Tree Massage (http://groundingtree.com/store.php)
13. Breathing an elixir, primarily of nitrogen and oxygen, on a regular basis
14. The words “brouhaha” and “hullabaloo”
15. Joining my Fearless Loving study group starting Monday, September 8 at 6:30pm (by phone)
16. Hummingbirds and Bumblebees
17. The moment a leaf decides to fall from a tree (this is only good luck for the leaf, however)

So now you know. You are in the inner circle of those of us who know what to look for, identify, and celebrate as good luck. Oh, one more thing…

There is no such thing as good luck, bad luck - any luck at all. There’s no predetermined, there’s no fate, there’s no destiny. All of those are concepts that human minds have come up with in attempts to understand what can’t be understood. We have tried hard to hold on to those concepts because it’s easier than taking responsibility for the choices that we face every moment of our lives. I came up with this list of 17 things as joke - something that was fun to do. I made a choice to have fun this morning and another choice to share it with you. I hope you got a laugh or at least a chuckle or a smile. That’s what I wanted to create today.

Homework:

Pick something you want to create today and take responsibility to create it.

Truly Yours,

Joseph Lyons

PS. Finding a penny used to be good luck. Little known fact - that sign of good luck was repealed by Benjamin Franklin himself prior to his passing. He was saddened to find peers and colleagues meandering the streets looking for pennies to the dismay of spouses and children. Ultimately the economy began to fail by the plight of the downtrodden, seeking pennies instead of working hard. It was too much for Franklin, who decided to make a pronouncement that although a penny saved is a penny earned, a penny found is a penny burned, formally ending PennyGate for decades. Don’t believe me? It’s bad luck to look it up and try to prove me wrong.

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