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Is it true that we all make our own luck?

Therefore meaning that everything that goes wrong is directly our own fault?
If it is, how do we change it?

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Eddieee offline Verified User (8 months) Long Term User Shouts: 100 #
An Unknown Location | 3 months, 1 week ago (3 minutes after post)

The fault is mine…I am sorry

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Cell offline Verified User (2 years, 9 months) Long Term User Shouts: 54 #
Winnipeg, MB, CA | 3 months, 1 week ago (18 minutes after post)

Yes and no.

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J.N Location unknown offline Verified User (8 months, 3 weeks) Long Term User Shouts: 436 #
An Undisclosed Location | 3 months, 1 week ago (20 minutes after post)

Cell wrote:
Yes and no.

Elaborate, how so?

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Cell offline Verified User (2 years, 9 months) Long Term User Shouts: 54 #
Winnipeg, MB, CA | 3 months, 1 week ago (23 minutes after post)

Most times you make your own luck but some things are out of your control. I’d say about70-90% of things/life is yours to make happen.

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grbghp offline Verified User (11 months, 2 weeks) Long Term User Shouts: 18 #
An Undisclosed Location | 3 months, 1 week ago (24 minutes after post)

you can either trust your luck or don’t trust it at all,
both ways work, but differently.

just keep in mind that you eat what you cook,
so choose the ingredients carefully…

the more aware you are to choices you make, the more control you have on your luck.

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Likkle-Bit offline Verified User (4 months, 3 weeks) Long Term User Shouts: 0 #
An Unknown Location | 3 months, 1 week ago (29 minutes after post)

that is very subjective to each individual, however things do happen that we have no control over and yes…sometimes one right after the other but a positive reaction and optimism changes everything

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An Unknown Location | 3 months, 1 week ago (1 day, 16 hours after post)

Well, of course not everything that goes wrong in our lives is our fault!

However, I do believe it’s all about having the right mindset and approach towards life :) Sure we have no control over many specific things, and I’m not saying that having positive outlook means bad things will never happen, but it will certainly help you deal with them, and stop you from feeling like a simply “unlucky” person.

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An Unknown Location | 3 weeks, 1 day ago (2 months, 2 weeks after post)

I think life is 10% what happens to us and 90% our attitude. So O would say yes, we make our own luck…

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J.N Location unknown offline Verified User (8 months, 3 weeks) Long Term User Shouts: 436 #
An Undisclosed Location | 3 weeks, 1 day ago (2 months, 2 weeks after post)

Thanks :)

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Coalesce offline Verified User (1 year, 2 months) Long Term User Shouts: 31 #
An Unknown Location | 3 weeks ago (2 months, 3 weeks after post)

I wouldn’t go so far as to say that EVERYTHING that goes wrong is directly our fault. But I do think that the majority of what happens to us is under our control.

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J.N Location unknown offline Verified User (8 months, 3 weeks) Long Term User Shouts: 436 #
An Undisclosed Location | 3 weeks ago (2 months, 3 weeks after post)

So i must just be unlucky then!

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Coalesce offline Verified User (1 year, 2 months) Long Term User Shouts: 31 #
An Unknown Location | 3 weeks ago (2 months, 3 weeks after post)

On a long enough timeline, everyone’s life is gonna suck the big one every now and then.

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An Undisclosed Location | 3 weeks ago (2 months, 3 weeks after post)

Ill agree with that!

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cherri.barret offline Verified User (2 weeks, 5 days) Shouts: 0 #
An Unknown Location | 2 weeks, 5 days ago (2 months, 3 weeks after post)

we cant change what was did .. just guide what is turnin into a sled

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J.N Location unknown offline Verified User (8 months, 3 weeks) Long Term User Shouts: 436 #
An Undisclosed Location | 2 weeks, 5 days ago (2 months, 3 weeks after post)

cherri.barret wrote:
we cant change what was did .. just guide what is turnin into a sled

Hu?

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An Undisclosed Location | 2 weeks, 4 days ago (2 months, 3 weeks after post)

RESPONSIBILITY. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one’s neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon

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An Undisclosed Location | 2 weeks, 4 days ago (2 months, 3 weeks after post)

Destiny is a good thing to accept when it’s going your way. When it isn’t, don’t call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.

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An Undisclosed Location | 2 weeks, 4 days ago (2 months, 3 weeks after post)

As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

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Coalesce offline Verified User (1 year, 2 months) Long Term User Shouts: 31 #
An Unknown Location | 2 weeks, 4 days ago (2 months, 3 weeks after post)

Holy ‘This reply has been removed’ Batman!

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An Undisclosed Location | 2 weeks, 3 days ago (2 months, 3 weeks after post)

J.N Not Lost - Found wrote:
RESPONSIBILITY. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one’s neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon stars

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An Unknown Location | 2 weeks, 3 days ago (2 months, 3 weeks after post)

spend as much time on improving your luck, as you do stroking your cat, and the skies the limit ha ha ha

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