#SSS - The Luck Factor

 Luck! Luck definitely exists, good luck and bad luck does not. I mean, obviously it exists as a verbal statement of recognition of your opinion on the display of luck. That is all it is though, it's an opinion. It is a way of judging a situation and labelling it in a way in which suits you or your understanding of it.

I'm currently reading the The Luck Factor by Richard Wiseman, it is VERY interesting! It's quite funny how I reacted to it as well. At the beginning of the book I was like, God Rich, you shouldn't say this and that, there is no such thing as good luck and bad luck, it is how you judge a situation. Then I read on,  and wollah, I was right! He started to explain how luck is perceived and I was spot on! I love it when I'm right ;)

Let me test you readers on this one. Is what has happened to me lucky or unlucky? My situation, how it happened. what happened, the lot. Label it with good luck or bad luck….. I'll give you a few minutes….

…. I'm going to guess that the majority of you say it was bad luck. Understandably, I can see where you're coming from.

Now, my opinion on the matter is, I am a very lucky girl!

1. I died, but I was lucky for the paramedics to resuscitate me back to life. 
2. I was amputated, but I'm dealing with it with the support of my amazing family and friends, I'm lucky to have all of these people around me to help me and to make me smile! 
3. I was badly burnt on my face and chest, I am still in the process of getting these scars sorted out with further operations this year. The damage to my facial nerve prevented me from being able to move the left side of my face. Surgeons did take a nerve out from the back of my left leg and gave it  a 1% chance of it working once placed into my face. It is woking! I still have a way to go before I'm back to normal and have full ability to move my face, but it's coming. I've currently got a twitch in my left eyebrow! :) I'm working on it and it will come back eventually. 

I am very lucky! The burns could have been slightly moved to right and blinded me! The massive bang to my head, from flying through the roof of my car (luckily a soft top convertible) and then landing on the floor and having the car land on top of me, apart from making me brain dead, it could have been a lot worse!
I was in a coma for nearly a month after the crash, my family didn't know whether or not I would wake up from it. They didn't know if I was to wake up with severe brain damage. I did suffer post traumatic amnesia, but that is clearing up loads now. I'm almost back to normal mentally. My concentration is still a bit patchy, but it's just through the laziness of not using my brain for such a long time. I will be back to normal in no time.
I am very lucky to have had such a smart and intelligent brain before the crash! If it wasn't for boys & alcohol, I could have been a rocket scientist! hehe ;)

If I wasn't as smart before having the bang to the head, I would be pretty stumped now. I am lucky to have such smart & intelligent parents! So I digress, the point is, what happened to me was very shit and nasty to deal with, but the luck involved in the incident, is just down to my perception of what happened! How I look at it and how I let it effect my life moving forward.

If I didn't loose my leg, I would never have met so many amazing people on social media and at the Limbpower event this year. I am grateful to have had the chance to meet so many incredible people!
If I wasn't burnt on my face & chest, I wouldn't have met the lovely Katie Piper and the amazing people who work with her for the KPFoundation.
If I hadn't suffered an injury to my brain, I wouldn't have met my two lovely Occupational Therapist, Katie & Alex, who come to see me on a weekly basis and help me to get back to where I was before the crash. They are both lovely ladies, and I'm glad to have them as new friends  in my life.

Yes, the situation I am in on a daily basis, is one I would rather not be in, I do miss the things I would be doing on a daily basis prior to the crash I was involved in. However I'm not going to mope and dwell on it. I need to look forward and focus on my recovery and my future. Life is too short to be wasting your time looking back at bad situation you have gone through. No matter what happens to you, you should dust it off and get on with your life, if you want to live a happy one. If you dwell on things that have made you sad at the time, then you'll be stuck with that for a long time. You will have the mentality of a very unlucky person. And guess what, then you will be unlucky! You'll be in a rut of "bad luck" and it will be your own fault.

So don't do it people. You make your own luck in life!

"Is luck just fate, or can you change it?

A groundbreaking new scientific study of the phenomenon of luck and the ways we can bring good luck into our lives. What is luck? A psychic gift or a question of intelligence? And what is it that lucky people have that unlucky people lack? Psychologist Dr. Richard Wiseman put luck under a scientific microscope for the very first time, examining the different ways in which lucky and unlucky people think and behave. After three years of intensive interviews and experiments with over 400 volunteers, Wiseman arrived at an astonishing conclusion: Luck is something that can be learned. It is available to anyone willing to pay attention to the Four Essential Principles: 

. Creating Chance Opportunities
. Thinking Lucky
. Feeling Lucky
. Denying Fate 

Readers can determine their capacity for luck as well as learn to change their luck through helpful exercises that appear throughout the book. Illustrated with anecdotes from the lives of the famous such as Harry Truman and Warren Buffett, The Luck Factor also richly portrays the lives of ordinary people who have been extraordinarily lucky or unlucky. Finally Dr. Wiseman gives us a look into "The Luck School" where he instructs unlucky people and also teaches lucky people how to further enhance their luck."

If you want to give this book a read, you can find it here . http://www.amazon.co.uk/Luck-Factor-Scientific-Study-Lucky/dp/0099443244/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1412527159&sr=1-1&keywords=the+luck+factor

So what else has made me smile this week, well, PEAKY BLINDERS!!! I can't wait to see Tom Hardy in it next week. I bet he'll be just wonderful.

I have a little job interview next week too. It's a voluntary roll for a a charity that deals with MS and I thought it would be good for me to get back into a work frame of mind and see how I get on with focusing on various tasks each week. I do miss work, as crazy as that may sound. But I do! I will try this one out, get back into the swing of things and then look into something bigger and better. As much as I'd love to use my skills in marketing and PR to help a charity spread across the UK, I would still like to be getting a pay check at the end of the month. It's not like I'm desperate for the money, but I like earning my own way through life. I'd like to get back to a career and have my own targets to reach each week/month. I'll let you all know how I got on next week anyway ;)

So I started a course in Wolverhampton for Advanced Creative Writing, it was good to meet a few lovely people and it will help me get this book of mine done. It was nice to meet them all and I'm looking forward to the next course! The courses are every Friday at 10am, for 10 weeks. I'm not sure what the end result will be, it will be good for me none the less.

I've had a lovely weekend in Birmingham. I went for a meal with my Nan, Alex, Dan & Grace yesterday evening. That was just delightful. Then I stayed at my Nanny Ds with Alex. Alex has some henna she picked up in Dubai and said she would give it a go on me if I wanted, I asked her to do a little design on my right thigh. She did a great job on it too! It will probably fade away soon, with the friction of my prosthetic leg socket, but it looks great for the meantime. Thanks Alex!

Today Nanny J came around to pick me up and we went to Erdington to see my lovely Auntie Nia and Cousin Elis. It was a lovely dinner and very nice to see them both! They are both heading out to New Zealand for Christmas this year, so we won't get an awful lot of time to see them before they go. God I can't believe Christmas is nearly here already! I feel like you could sneeze and it'll be 2052!

That's all for now folks, peace x