生活需要運氣：10招讓你變得更幸運

The best ways to get lucky are to stay positive and visualize success in your life. If you’d like to know how to be luckier, check out these 10 ways to get lucky in life.
獲得好運的最好辦法莫過於保持積極的心態，設想人生的成功。如果你想知道怎麼能變得更幸運，就看看下面這十個小貼士吧。

1. Be Aware of (and Act on) Opportunities
認準（並把握住）機會

“I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work.the more I have of it.” – Thomas Jefferson
“我很相信運氣，我發現我越是努力，就越發幸運。”——托馬斯·傑斐遜

How much luck do you think you can look forward to if you stay locked up in your house like a hermit? Probably not much. If you don’t get out there and take action, you’ll find yourself in a sad pit of doom that is devoid of opportunity. Wanna be lucky? Life isn’t a charity, so get to work.
天天像隱士一樣呆在家裏，你覺得能有多少好運氣？肯定不會多。如果不出去看看，採取行動，你會始終現在缺乏機遇的怪圈裏。想要更幸運？生活不是福利院，出去工作吧。

2. Visualize Success
想象成功

“Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“幸運就是爲機會做準備的過程。”—— 羅馬哲學家賽尼加

How well do you think you will perform on a date, job interview, or sporting event if your thoughts are filled with reasons you will fail? The odds would not be in your favor. The best athletes see themselves winning a game long before it starts. The best stage actors imagine an audience exploding with laughter and applause before they set foot on stage. If you’re going to a job interview, imagine how thoughtful your responses will be during your drive. If you’re preparing for a date, imagine how classy/handsome/sexy/funny the other person will find you while you get dressed. You must first see success happen before you can make it happen.
如果腦海中填滿了失敗的想法，你覺得自己在約會、面試或運動賽事上的勝算還能有多大？事情也不會如你所願。最好的運動員在比賽開始之前就能預見贏得比賽；最好的舞臺演員在登場之前就會想象觀衆雷鳴般的笑聲和掌聲；如果你要去參加面試，路上想象一下你的回答會很周到；如果要準備約會，打扮的時候想象一下另一半會覺得你是多麼的古典/帥氣/性感/可愛。你必須在事情發生之前就去預見成功。

3. Focus on the Positive
保持積極的心態

“The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.” – Douglas MacArthur
“最好的運氣就是自己創造的。”——道格拉斯·麥克阿瑟

An unfortunate thing that happened to me: Last week, my car engine died on the road going into my apartment complex. My vehicle didn’t come to a slow stop, but rather a dead halt. Let’s just say the bill from the mechanic wasn’t pretty, so I wasn’t very happy about this. But then it hit me: I was so lucky! My drive home that night included a 30-minute voyage on a crowded interstate. Now imagine how much worse my situation would have been if my car suddenly quit with a vehicle traveling 70 M.P.H. right behind me. I’m happy that I was lucky enough for my car to quit in the safety of my own parking lot, because had it gone out on the interstate, it’s very possible I wouldn’t be here to type this. Look for the good in all things.
上週發生了一件不好的事：回家的路上車子的發動機壞了。我的車子不是慢慢停下來而是突然熄火。維修費當然不少，這也讓我非常的不爽。但我突然想到：我是多麼幸運！那天晚上回家還需要在鬧市區開30分鐘。現在想象一下如果我的車突然停下來後面正是一輛70碼時速奔馳的車，這個後果可想而知了吧。我真幸運車子是在自己的停車位拋錨，而不是鬧市區，否則也許我就沒命來告訴你們這些了。從積極面看待事情吧。

4. Listen to Your Gut
相信自己的直覺

“Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.” – Jimmy Buffett
“幽默讓我在很多緊張的情況都變得沒那麼慌張。如果你跟隨自己的直覺，保持你的幽默，創造力也就如約而至。有了運氣，成功也就來了。”——吉米·巴菲特

Look, we all make the occasional bad decision, so it’s in your best interest to be decisive. Trust your gut instinct and allow your intuition to guide you. Of course, you could agonize over every single decision in your life, but there is no guarantee that all that extra deliberation will lead to an increased likelihood of success (odds are it’ll just result in wasted time and opportunity).
我們都做過錯誤的決定，所以要讓自己決斷起來。相信你的直覺，讓它指引着你。當然，你需要仔細衡量人生中的每一個決定，但也不能確保你的每一個深思熟慮都能加大成功的機會（也有可能只是浪費時間和機會罷了）。

5. Brush Your Shoulders Off
減輕負擔

“Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right.” – William Feather
“大部分人都把好運看成是我們的權利，把壞運氣視爲對這種權利的背叛。”——威廉·斐勒

No, you can’t have it all. Yes, you will fail sometimes. No, life isn’t fair. Yes, you have to deal with it.
不，你不可能擁有所有的好運氣；是的，有時候你也會失敗；不，生活其實並不公平；是的，你得自己學着接受。6. Try Again from Another Angle
從別的角度看待問題

“Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.”
“記住如果有時候沒有得到你想要的，其實這是在攢運氣呢。”

Just because your plan failed doesn’t necessarily mean it was a bad idea — it could just be your execution or that method of delivery needs to be tweaked. The more you learn and grow, the more “lucky” and successful you will be.
計劃失敗並不能說明你的想法是錯誤的——也許只是在執行過程中出了問題，或是方法需要改進。學習和成長的越多，你就會越幸運越成功。

7. Reduce Stress and Negative Thinking
減輕壓力和消極想法

“Here’s the thing about luck…you don’t know if it’s good or bad until you have some perspective.” – Alice Hoffman
“這裏有一個關於運氣的東西......你不知道到底是好還是壞，直到你有一些觀點。”——愛麗絲·霍夫曼

Remember that time agonizing over things beyond your control made all of your problems go away? Didn’t think so. Most of us are walking, talking balls of stress. If you’re so stressed out that you can’t think straight, open doors and opportunities will blow past you without the slightest recollection. The next time you’re feeling down, ask yourself these 10 questions that prove you’re doing better than you think (go ahead and bookmark that so you can repeat this exercise as needed!).
還記得一切盡在掌控煩惱全部沒有的日子麼？恐怕沒有。我們都在壓力下生活着。如果壓力過大，你就無法簡單思考，開啓大門，機遇也會和你擦肩而過。下次感到低落的時候，問自己十個能證明自己做的比想象中還要好的問題吧（試試，記下來這些問題，以後可以經常拿出來練習哦）。

8. Live in the Now
活在當下

“When it comes to luck, you make your own.” – Bruce Springsteen
“說到運氣，你需要自己去創造。”——布魯斯·斯普林斯汀

It is easy to get so caught up in our own little worlds that we become oblivious to the other people, places, and things around us. Developing an ability to live in the present moment will help you notice opportunities that would otherwise breeze past without recollection.
小小世界被人追趕上太正常不過，我們也會遺忘其他人、地方以及一些事情。培養自己活在當下的能力能幫助你注意到機會，因爲說不準什麼時候就稍縱即逝了。

9. Be Curious about Everything
對一切充滿好奇

“Ability is of little account without opportunity.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
“沒有機會，能力將毫無用處。”——拿破崙·波拿巴

Developing curiosity will help you open doors that were previously closed. How is that? Because being curious will give you a fresh perspective on things, arming you with an ability to identify solutions to problems that others might miss. The more creative and innovative you are, the more luck you can create for yourself.
培養好奇心能幫你打開原本緊閉着的大門。爲什麼呢？保持好奇心能讓你用新的視角看待問題，給你一種解決難題的能力，而其他人也許就這麼錯過了。你越有創造力，就能爲自己帶來越多的運氣。

10. Keep on Hustling
堅持努力

“Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.” – Ray Kroc
“運氣就是汗水換來的。流得汗越多，你就越幸運。”——雷·克羅克

You don’t lose until you quit, so don’t quit.
只要不放棄就不算失敗，所以不要放棄。