The Book of Luck: Brilliant Ideas for Creating Your Own Success and Making Life Go Your Way - Paperback

by Heather Summers (Author), Anne Watson (Author)

Are some people just born lucky? The answer is no, people control their own fortunes. The Book of Luck will show you that there is a way to structure your luck and to bring success into your life and into your control. It will show you how to be lucky, always, demonstrating what has gone wrong in the past and outlining what you need to know for the future. Summers and Watson use extensive research and draw on their personal experiences both professionally and personally, to bring you a book crammed full of practical tips on how to turn the tide of your luck.

This book will appeal to people who want to move up in life, people who have been made redundant, people who have plateaued in their careers and people who are ambitious for the next step - or simply people who want to make more of themselves in a business or personal context. The Book of Luck shows you how to:

• choose your own luck
• use social situations to increase your potential for luck
• use your own personal strengths to increase your luck
• choose how you respond to situations and maximise your luck
• train your mind to expect long term success
• develop a good luck mindset.

Back Jacket

Some people are just born lucky? Right? Wrong. You have to create your own luck.

The good news is, there are proven ways to become luckier person and get the success you want in your life. In The Book of Luck, Heather Summers and Anne Watson reveal how to be lucky, always. They explain what has been missing for you in the past and outline what you need to know for the future.

The Book of Luck is a must-read for those who want to move up in the world. It is crammed full of practical tips on how to turn the tide of your luck.

You will learn how to:

• Choose your own luck
• Transform negatives into positives
• Wake up to the potential of confidence
• Assess your openness to luck and your ability to benefit from it
• Uuse your personal strengths to increase the times you get it right
• Develop a good luck mindset

The Book of Luck includes a Lusk Questionnaire that will enable you to check how you already are - and to re-check your progress as your luck quotient increases.

Author Biography

Heather Summers began her career with British Airways where she worked in a variety of sales, training and management roles before leaving to run the training department at the then infamous London Borough of Islington. She was the first woman senior manager in Yorkshire Electricity, moving on from there to become Chief Executive of ABL (Bradford) Ltd. Sheis an experienced senior executive and human resources consultant. She runs her own successful consultancy business specialising in training and personal growth coaching.Her qualifications include MBA, Master Practitioner of NLP and a Diploma in Performance Coaching. She is also qualified in psychometrics (Saville and Holdsworth Ability and Personality tests - and Myers Briggs).

Anne Watson runs an executive search business that focuses on finding high achieving executives for businesses, and works with teams to ensure that they achieve their potential. In 1998 she sold a successful business, gaining the freedom to work in those areas that she is most passionate about. This includes running Luck Workshops with Heather Summers and challenging participants to take charge of their own destiny and outperform their own expectations. She has an MA Hons in Hispanic Languages, speaks four other languages including Urdu, is a qualified psychometrician and is a Master Practitioner in NLP.