How to Get Lucky (Harriman Classics)


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Max Gunther's lost classic, now in a new Classics edition. Some people think you're either born lucky or not. But what if you could actively get lucky? As Max Gunther shows in this page-turning classic, some people really are luckier than others - and not by accident. Lucky people arrange their lives in characteristic patterns. They tend to position themselves in the path of onrushing luck; they tend to go where events are moving fastest and where they can find their lucky break Lucky people take risks but not silly ones. They stick with a cause, a job, or a partner, but not when all hope is lost. In short, they move with life, not against it. This book gives you 13 different techniques by which you can discover and take advantage of life's good breaks, while minimising the effects of its bad ones.




Finding Luck


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The Dunlap’s bed and breakfast is finally ready for the grand opening—or is it?—in this fourth book of a chapter book series inspired by Marguerite Henry’s Misty of Chincoteague. It’s time for the grand opening of Misty’s Inn and Willa and Ben have been on their best behavior helping their parents get everything in tip-top shape! But they’re tired of being up to their ears in lumpy mattresses and dust bunnies. Willa and Ben would much rather be helping their Grandma Edna reunite a foal with its missing mother. But as one disaster after another keeps happening at the Inn, the Dunlaps begin to worry that maybe running a bed and breakfast wasn’t such a great idea after all. Will the Dunlaps be able to get everything ready in time, or will their dreams of running a successful inn disappear like the horse they’re trying to save?




Get Lucky


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A guide to getting luck on your side As the pace of change accelerates and the volume of information explodes, we're under great pressure to connect just in time with the people and ideas we need to thrive. But we can no longer plan our way to success—there will always be factors beyond our control. This uncertainty, however, cultivates one of today's key drivers of success: serendipity. More than blind luck, serendipity can produce quantifiable results: breakthrough ideas, relationships that matter, effortless cooperation, synchronized market timing, and more. Get Lucky shows businesses how to succeed by fostering the conditions for serendipity to occur early and often. Distills planned serendipity into eight key elements: preparedness, motion, activation, attraction, connection, commitment, porosity, and divergence Features stories of serendipity in action at well-known companies including Avon, Target, Steelcase, Google, Facebook, Walmart, and more Written by serial entrepreneurs and cofounders of Get Satisfaction, a breakout platform for online customer service communities with over 100,000 clients Planned serendipity is not an abstract, magical notion, but a practical skill. Get Lucky is the indispensable resource for anyone who wants to learn this skill and to make serendipity work for them.




Finding Her Luck


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When raiders steal Corrin and the other village women away from their homes, the future looks grim.None of them expect an ancient race of warriors called the Orki to murder the raiders and take the women for their own.Only Corrin would have the poor fortune to be kidnapped twice in one day.Now, the leader of the brutish aliens has chosen her to be his 'redress', whatever that means.With Corrin's cursed luck, it can't be anything good.She should be angry. She should be scared. Instead, what Corrin starts to feel for the Orki is something else entirely.Something dangerous and forbidden.Could this infuriating male be the thing that finally changes Corrin's luck for the better?~*~*~This is a fantasy story featuring scenes with intimate interactions and power exchange, with orc-like aliens set in a world ruled by violence. If you like tame romances, this story is not for you. Please read responsibly.




The Success Equation


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In this provocative book, Michael Mauboussin offers the structure needed to analyze the relative importance of skill and luck, offering concrete suggestions for making these insights work to your advantage by making better decisions.




Finding Fortune


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When Ren sees her mom heading out to dinner with that creep Rick Littleton, she's furious. How could her mom do that to her dad, a soldier stuck over in Afghanistan? Ren decides to run away to the school-turned-boardinghouse in the next town over. Once there, she makes friends with a boy named Hugh, who tells her that the boardinghouse is the site of a mystery. Every night, the owner, Ms. Baxter, searches for a treasure left in the building years ago. If Ms. Baxter can't find it, then the boarding house might shut down for good, and her dream of preserving the town's history by opening a pearl button museum will never come true. By the time Ren, Hugh, and other visitors help find the treasure-a bag of pearls-Ren and her mom also have found a way to forgive each other.




Superstitions


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FINDING GRACE BEYOND DESTINY


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This a devotion themed from the authors first book Beyond Destiny. It has been structured as a devotion allowing the reader to meditate on smaller portions and themes that are found in its pages for daily or timely inspiration. Too often in our struggle to know God and comprehend his Infinite love it seems so unimaginable that we begin to discount it and we stray and lose our way and our relationship with God. This is a burden and conflict for a believer or a seekers who come face to face with their own persistent imperfections, finding it hard to believe God can forgive or love them as they have told others. We struggle to apply the faith we encourage others to accept. We often say "come as your are" to unbelievers because it is what we hope for ourselves but think it to grand for us. Will God love you and welcome you back as he does the sinners in the bible? Why would God forgive you? How does Grace work for you or can it? Real questions needing real answers.




Get Lucky


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A Navy SEAL teams up with a feisty journalist to catch a dangerous criminal in the New York Times–bestselling author’s thrilling military romance. While the men of Alpha Squad deploy on a dangerous mission, Luke “Lucky” O’Donlon stays behind for his sister’s wedding. But it turns out his elite skills are needed at home—when a serial rapist starts terrorizing San Felipe. Suspecting the culprit might be a SEAL, Lucky joins a local task force to unmask the menace. And that’s when he meets journalist Sydney Jameson . . . Sydney isn’t the typical arm candy Lucky goes for, but he’s used to women swooning at his feet. So why does this smart, no-nonsense reporter seem immune to his charms? As they work together on their dangerous assignment, Lucky is determined to turn her frosty attitude around—and make her fall head over heels for him.