What You Look For, You Find
Back when I was an architect working crazy work-weeks, I found myself living for the weekend.
These days? Monday morning is my break. Not in a bad way. Parenting is just a whole different beast.
But it got me thinking about how much of life comes down to the lens you're looking through. Same life, completely different experience depending on your filter. Which brings me to this story I read about recently.
The Luck Experiment
A psychologist named Richard Wiseman ran an experiment on luck.
He split people into two groups: those who considered themselves lucky and those who considered themselves unlucky. Then he gave them all the same newspaper and a simple task: count the photographs.
Halfway through the paper, there was a half-page ad that said: "Stop counting. There are 43 photographs."
The "lucky" people noticed it. The "unlucky" people missed it entirely. They were so focused on counting that they couldn't see what was right in front of them.
Same newspaper. Same task. A completely different experience.
The unlucky people weren't actually unluckier. They were just too tense, too focused on the narrow task, to notice opportunity when it appeared.
What you look for, you find. The world doesn't change. Your filter does.
Notice three things this week that could be called lucky. Write them down.
They don't have to be big. The timing that worked out. The person who showed up. The thing that could've gone wrong but didn't.
Keep a running note in your phone. Once you start tracking them, you'll see more of them.
Make it easier: Just notice one today. That's enough to start the shift.
See what your brain finds when you give it permission to look 💪
