Luck -

My name the first name drawn in the raffle today at our work holiday party, which led me to laugh about just how lucky I am, ask anyone in my family.  See a couple posts below where I wont the turkey.  Other examples in 2011 include the time I won the Brooks running shoes, or the time I was a winner in the Easter Egg Hunt, or (I could keep going for a long time).  Things tend to work out in my favor and I win a lot of contests, raffles, drawings.  Why and how does that happen?

There is a lot of Irish on my mom’s side of the family (Grandpa B is 100%) – Luck of the Irish?  And my dad is another one that wins a lot of different things.  So somehow am I getting my luck from both sides of the family???

What does the word LUCK really mean…so I did what any person would do and googled the definition of Luck (according to dictionary.com).

Luck-

1.      The force that seems to operate for good or ill in a person’s life, as in shaping circumstances, events, or opportunities:

2.      Good fortune; advantage or success, considered as the result of chance

3.      Combination of circumstances, events, etc., operating by chance to bring good or ill to a person

4.      Some object on which good fortune is supposed to depend

I also remember a quote by Samuel Goldwyn stating, “The harder I work, the luckier I get.”

What makes a person have good luck?  What makes a person have bad luck?  To the degree that we can control the circumstances in our lives we can control our luck, but many things are outside our control.  At that point do we just leave it up to the universe to decide? 

I still don’t get how luck works in general, but I am very thankful for the luck/fortune that I have.  I am just going to keep doing what I am doing and see where it gets me.