Whether or not we have happiness in life is not entirely up to us—at least not on a conscious level. We often live with beliefs that someone else handed down to us. I remember, for example, my mother telling me that in our family we simply had no luck. She said that happiness avoided us, that we would never win anything, and so on. We can blame the universe, God, circumstances, fate, whatever we want… but the point remains: we don’t have it, while others seemingly do.
Happiness Is an Inside Job
I also claim that happiness is what we call an “inside job.” But how do we make it happen? How is it possible that some people win contests and attract lucky breaks, while others almost never do?
They say that before God, all people are equal. So how is it that some have luck and others don’t?
As I’ve already mentioned, it comes down to our internal beliefs. It doesn’t matter much how they were formed—whether someone told us, and we adopted them as our own, or whether we created them based on our past successes and failures.
So does this mean that if we hold different beliefs about how lucky we are, life itself will be different?
Yes. Exactly. Here’s a simple example.
The “Unlucky” Experiment
Years ago, an interesting experiment was conducted to test theories about luck. Two groups of people were selected: one group claimed they were generally unlucky, while the other claimed the opposite—that they were lucky in life.
Each participant was sent on a journey for hidden treasure. Along the path, money was hidden in different spots, and each person’s task was to find as many “treasures” as possible.
Everyone had identical conditions, and no one knew where the money was hidden.
At the end of the experiment, the results were clear: those who believed they were unlucky found little or nothing, while those who believed they were lucky returned with significantly more discoveries.
This proved that luck is not about chance, time, or opportunities, but rather about our ability to notice opportunities—and the lens through which we view the world.
The hidden treasures were opportunities. Some people saw them, while others didn’t.
If your first reaction to entering a contest is: “It’s useless, I’ll never win,” then even if you hope otherwise, inside you already see the outcome that way. Hoping is good, but hoping is not the same as believing.
When we visualize an event and merely hope for a good outcome, we often imagine multiple scenarios at once. But when we truly believe and know it will happen, the mental images are very different—usually brighter, clearer, closer, more vivid.
So if you change what’s inside—your beliefs about whether or not you are lucky—you will start seeing opportunities where you never noticed them before. They’ve always been there, like the hidden money in the experiment. You just have to start seeing them. In modern terms: you must begin to attract them.
Ok, but if I’ve never been lucky—how can I change it?
Of course, FasterEFT offers processes to change these beliefs very quickly. That’s exactly what I teach people in my workshops.
In fact, in the fourth lesson of the seminar, participants learn specific techniques to reprogram beliefs like these.
Since our brain cannot always clearly distinguish truth from illusion (you’ve probably realized this after discovering that many of your old beliefs were completely wrong), there is a simple rule of thumb: Fake it till you make it.
What does that mean? Exactly what it says. Act as if it’s already true. Tell yourself and others that you are lucky. Keep saying it until you believe it. The moment it becomes a belief, you will start seeing opportunities that were invisible before from your “unlucky” point of view.
It might take days, months, or even a year, but if you keep doing it sincerely, results will come.
If you don’t want to wait that long, then it may be time to first release the old limiting beliefs that hold you back—so you can open up to more happiness in your life.