How to manifest good luck is something Florence Scovel Shinn might have answered rather differently from most people.

Imagine Florence sitting in her Manhattan apartment on a rainy evening, surrounded by students. Tea is being poured. Rain is tapping against the windows. Her black cat has commandeered the most comfortable chair in the room.

A student asks, “Florence, do you really believe some people are lucky?”

Florence smiles.

“Of course. But I’m not entirely convinced luck is what you think it is.”

How to Manifest Good Luck Through Unexpected Doors

Imagine a young illustrator named Clara walking through Manhattan when the heavens suddenly open.

No umbrella. No taxi. Within seconds, she’s soaked.

Clara escapes into a grand hotel she would never normally enter and decides to wait out the storm over a cup of tea.

Nearby, an older gentleman drops a bundle of papers. Clara helps him pick them up and notices an illustration.

“That’s beautiful,” she says, “although I think the woman’s expression is wrong.”

Oops.

Fortunately, instead of being offended, the gentleman asks whether Clara is an artist.

One conversation leads to another. He has connections with a publishing company. Several weeks later, Clara is showing them her work.

Was Clara lucky?

Certainly.

But consider what had to happen.

It had to rain. She had to enter that particular hotel. The gentleman had to drop his papers. Clara had to help him. And finally, she had to open her mouth.

Chance created the meeting. Clara participated in it.

How to Manifest Good Luck by Noticing More

This is where Florence Scovel Shinn’s idea of Divine Guidance becomes fascinating.

Good luck doesn’t necessarily arrive as a lottery win or a mysterious check through the letterbox.

Sometimes it arrives as information.

A conversation.

An invitation.

A wrong turn.

Someone you weren’t expecting to meet.

An idea hidden inside something completely unrelated.

Imagine finding a wallet and returning it personally. No reward follows, but you become friends with the owner, and months later that friendship introduces someone important into your life.

Or imagine boarding the wrong train and unexpectedly meeting an old acquaintance at the station where you’re forced to change.

Bad luck?

Good luck?

Perhaps we decide far too quickly.

Become Available to Good Fortune

Here’s a simple experiment.

For the next seven days, follow one harmless curiosity every day.

Walk into the shop you’ve passed fifty times. Read something outside of your usual interests. Investigate that peculiar idea that keeps returning. Accept an invitation. Start a conversation. Take a different route home.

Not because every coincidence is a telegram from the Universe.

Simply because changing what you do increases the possibility of discovering something you couldn’t have discovered by repeating yesterday.

Florence might call that opening yourself up to Divine Guidance.

Modern psychology might talk about attention, curiosity, opportunity, and serendipity.

Either way, you have to participate.

Try beginning each morning with this declaration:

Something Lucky is going to happen to me today.. 

Then keep your eyes open.

Years later, imagine someone asking Clara how she got her first big break.

Talent?

Persistence?

Connections?

She thinks for a moment and laughs.

“Actually, it was raining.”

Perhaps that’s the strange thing about good luck.

It rarely introduces itself.

And if you’d like to explore manifestation, Divine Guidance, the Law of Attraction, and the Law of Assumption in greater depth, take a look at the book The Manifestation Code by Keith Everett. It’s available now on Amazon.

Have a lucky day,

Keith