I co-facilitated a Tiara Teleconnect conference call the day after St. Patrick’s Day about how to create luck. (You can listen to the recorded call by going to the “Community – Listen in” section of the Tiara Coaching website www.tiaracoaching.com). It’s an interesting concept. Can you create your own luck? Well, we assumed that you could and explored how one might go about claiming the luck of the Irish for themselves!
I’ve realized since I got off the conference call that I’ve had an experience of previously feeling like I was going to be completely unlucky in an area of life — then proceeded to generate luck in that area of life. The area of life is pregnancy.
Before I got pregnant with my daughter, I thought that pregnancy was going to be awful. I had the facts laid out in front of me: women look uncomfortable, what happened with their bodies is out of their control, their shoe size can change, you can get special diseases during pregnancy, stretch marks, yuck, yuck, yuck! How was this possibly going to be anything other than misery? I was cynical.
Then I got committed – as someone mentioned on the call. It was not Okay for me to simply “get through” 2 years of my life (if we were going to have 2 kids). I was committed to finding my way to empowering perspectives and positive experiences. It was primarily through that commitment that my filter on the world began to shift and I began to see women enjoying their pregnancies. I started seeing some of the great and miraculous things that occur during pregnancy: complete strangers generally interested in how you’re feeling, people expecting you to take naps, getting all kinds of love and attention (I like this!), taking care of myself in ways I never would have thought to take care of myself if there wasn’t a baby in my belly. I eventually was told that I was a poster child for pregnancy. 6 months prior, I wouldn’t have thought that was possible!
Now I’m glad to distinguish this huge shift in perspective or luck, if you will. Because I’m currently overwhelmed by one of my current endeavors: writing the Expect the Best while You’re Expecting book. I can’t see how this is going to be anything but time-consuming and hard. And, I know that I can play with it and try my hand at expanding my luck in this area!
Please join the conversation: How do you create your own luck?
