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Create Your Own Luck : 8 Principles of Attracting Good Fortune in Life, Love, and Work

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Did you ever wish you could just sit by Mom's feet again and absorb her wisdom? Remember all those things that Mom said would help you succeed, and those things that might get in your way? Well, we remember some of them, but not all.

Create Your Own Luck feels like Mom-or a good friend-giving you lots of perspectives, advice, and cautions. Azriela Jaffe is like a mom-or a good friend-to thousands of people. She's a wife and mother of three children, a nationally syndicated columnist, and coordinator of a wide network of entrepreneurial couples.

We've all caught ourselves observing someone's good fortune and exclaiming that the fortunate person is so lucky. Jaffe asserts that creating luck is a skill that we can learn. It's an attitude toward life that we can master and, yes, control our own lives. In this book, she shows us how in a conversational tone that's captivating.

The text is interwoven with stories told in the first person. The reading is so comfortable that I was drawn in to a sense of being one-on-one with the author . . . probably curled up in front of the fireplace. One after another, Jaffe shares Luck Builders, the behaviors that attract good luck. Interspersed with these words of encouragement are Luck Busters, warnings about the behaviors that sabotage the good luck you attract, and Luck Blockers, behaviors that repel good luck. Throughout the book are Luck Journal Exercises, suggestions to do things that will help keep your thinking where it needs to be. The book is well-seasoned with thought-provoking quotes.

The eight principles, used as the organization of the book, are Open Your Mind, Ask for What You Want and Be Willing to Work to Get It, Pay Attention to Your Intuition and Meaningful Coincidences, Respond to Life's Trials with Resiliency, Take Yourself and Others Off the Hook, Have Patience in the Right Dose, Give and Receive in Equal Measure, and Focus on the Positive.

And here's my recommendation, in action form: After I read Create Your Luck, I sent it as a gift to my daughter, Jennifer, a junior in college.

a short review: I recieved this book by complete chance and coincidence... I've only had it for ten days now. At first I was merely skeptical. I said to myself "oh great, another somebody trying to explain the principles pf the universe."

But that wasn't the case... This book is about gentelness. It does not preach you to do anything or that you're doing anything wrong..... It merely reminds you, in the most gentle of ways, that you either ALLOW good-Luck to flow into your life, or you don't... I was a little bit STUNNED because this book is SO FULL OF TRUTHS that it made me see how many LUCK-BUSTERS and LUCK BLOCKERS I have had in my life... and guess who has created them?--Moi!!...... This is not an easy thing to recognize. It makes you upset and angry with yourself for a while (because deep down in your heart you know this is TRUTH!), but once you LET GO of this anger, you begin to ALLOW good things to be entering your life...... and INDEED, in the past WEEK (since I started reading this book) I've experienced more love and happiness than I have for a LONG LONG TIME :-)

This is not because of the book. This is not some MAGICAL BOOK. This book, however, does what only the BEST BOOKS CAN DO... It reminds you of Universal truths that YOU ALREADY KNOW... It does so in a FUN and GENTLE way.... This book was clearly written in the SPIRIT OF LOVE.... It gets my HIGHEST RECCOMENDATION. Anyone, like me, who is on a spiritual path, anyone who is with an OPEN MIND(Principle # 1 of LUCK-CREATION according to the book)... Anyone who likes to be reminded of gentle yet POWERFUL universal truths should read this book!

At last someone has written a book that is reality based for people wanting to point, push or pull themselves in a new direction. Azriela Jaffes' book,' How to Create Your Own Luck,'provides creative guidelines for such planning.

All of us need a framework that guides us through the maze of everyday problems to reach our goal. Books are everywhere to meet our personal level of need and satisfaction. Most don't list and describe real guidelines for action. ' How to Create Your Own Luck,' gives reality based solutions to readers in a user friendly language. In other words you will remember what she wrote. How you use it is up to you.

Azriela's book works. It fits in your hand and its' contents will not only fit in your head but stay there if you buy a copy, read it, and read it again because you won't always remember what was written. None of us do.I read it twice before it all sunk in.

So buy it. Use it. And do a friend a favor by sending them one. The principles in this book work. Plain and Simple. CONGRATULATIONS to AZRIELA JAFFE !!

Tommy Heanue, Hershey, Pa.

Do you believe that good luck is something that "just happens?" Do you ever wonder why good things happen again and again to some people, while others seem to have black clouds over their heads? In this book, Azriela Jaffe identifies eight strategies for attracting good luck. Each strategy comes with Luck Builders, Luck Busters, and Luck Blockers--specific behaviors that can bring luck to you or chase it away. With these strategies, you can start making lucky breaks come your way.

Although we can't control everything in our lives, we can open the door to new opportunities and give luck easy entry into our lives. Simply changing your mindset and being open to new possibilities can make luck happen in amazing ways for you. That's the point of a story involving me that is included in "Create Your Own Luck." I won't give all the details here, but on page 106 you can read about how I was able to salvage a problem situation and turn it into an exciting opportunity.

Being included in this book is in itself an example of one of the ways I've created luck in my life. When my problem occurred, and I made lemonade from the lemons, I posted the story to an email discussion group. Azriela saved that post and asked for my permission to include it in her book. If I hadn't taken the time to share my story, I wouldn't have been "lucky" enough to have my story shared with the world through this book. Just making yourself available can make you lucky!

I've always been a big believer in creating your own luck, and I had employed some of the strategies here intuitively. The good advice in this book showed me how to consciously and consistently use luck-creating strategies to create success after success. If you read this book and put its ideas to work for you, you will begin attracting good fortune in all areas of your life.

This is an excellent book filled with practical advice on increasing your good luck. My only complaint (a very small one) is that the book is probably more targeted to a female audience with several references to finding a husband or handling children. As a man, I found most of the exercises too introspective for my taste. Primitive that I am, I don't like to recollect big mistakes that I have made or probe deeply into my own psyche. I guess I'm just not wired that way. These small issues aside. I thought the book was fun to read and worthwhile. I probably enjoyed Dr. Wiseman's "The Luck Factor," a little more.

What a phenomenal book! It's a simple, practical, step-by-step process to keep focused on the positive and create more good experiences in life. This book is an easy read and extremely well written. I highly recommend it to EVERYONE interested in creating more positive experiences in their life!

People who you consider "lucky" -- probably aren't. They are undoubtedly doing things in their life that cause good fortune to come their way. This gem of a book gives you some excellent tips for attracting "lucky" things to happen to you. This also makes an excellent gift book for people who are interested in success in business or personal matters. --- Michael Webb, best-selling author, The RoMANtic's Guide: Hundreds of Creative Tips for a Lifetime of Love.

I expected another fluff book but this one has it all-motivation, great strategies to try plus it's easy to read and implement. Her strategies just clicked--you know in your gut she's right. I loved the writing style and all the luck builder ideas. She doesn't pretend that some hard work is necessary at times to get what you want --but this feel good, you-can-do-it book really outlines ways that you CAN do that will IMPROVE your life, your well being and overall happiness. It's a sure winner and I must read!

This is a wonderful little handbook for life, written in a conversational style. Don't be deceived by its straightforward, down-to-earth tone. Throughout the book are centuries of wisdom, presented as quotations from philosophers, scholars, poets and other wise thinkers. These are interspersed with real-life experiences of people who have lived by these wise aphorisms.

In addition to presenting experiences of specific people, the author gives examples from her own life: not only how she created luck for herself, but also how she had inadvertently blocked it. Such a personal approach gives you the feeling that you and she are having a heart-to-heart conversation at the kitchen table.

This is a book to be read more than once. Each time you read it, you are apt to be at a different place in your life, which will draw your attention to new insights.

Pauline Wallin, Ph.D.
Author, "Taming Your Inner Brat: A Guide for Transforming Self-defeating Behavior"

I'm fond of saying, "The harder I work, the luckier I get." And I think it's true. By being diligent we prepare ourselves for good luck. It's what Azriela calls being a "luck builder".

It's the only book I've seen entirely devoted to the art, attraction and creation of luck. And it's a good one. Azriela's book is filled with ideas, concepts and strategies for creating more good luck in your life.

You'll find this accomplished and prolific writer speaking directly to you as she writes from her own experience as well as others' to weave the magic of luck building.

The book delivers on its title. I was "lucky" to have found it and you will be, too. Order it today.

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Michael E. Angier, president of SuccessNet.org and eComStrategies.com Our Business is Your Success! Become part of an association dedicated to informing, inspiring and empowering people to be their best--personally and professionally.