Lately my head has been in good shape.
When I deliberately make time day after day, my condition improves, thinking boils over in a good way, and I feel satisfied.
On top of that, moments that feel lucky have been increasing. It feels like my ki — my energy — is in a good place.
I often shy away from the phrase "lucky" because it sounds spiritual (I'm more on the side that has a negative image of spirituality).
Still, good luck and bad luck do seem to exist.
Looking at life as a whole, I seem to be clearly on the "lucky" side.
Of course there are short-term cycles of good and bad luck — and a few years ago, not counting this year, there were stretches that felt rough all year long.
From that, and from my recent run of clear thinking, I started wondering what a "lucky state" actually is.
I don't think there's an absolute law for when things go well — but there do seem to be common threads.
In other words: maybe not causal in a strict sense, but when you look back at experience, you feel it afterward.
One idea that came to mind: luck turns toward you when you're thinking with your own head.
Put another way: when you're too caught up in other people's opinions or evaluations, your head isn't working properly — and luck may not come your way. That's the hypothesis.
When my head isn't working, I have routines to lift myself mentally: longer sleep, meditation, reading, working at a favorite café seat, going to the gym, drinking plain hot water, and so on.
They help — but even then, my spirits don't always rise.
So as a more basic question to myself, "Am I thinking things through with my own head?" started to feel necessary.
And to think with your own head, you need enough time. Without time, you sink into work, and whether work or private life, sudden tasks bury you.
"Just don't mind them" is an important mindset, and many people can do it — but after trying various approaches myself and not succeeding much, making time in the first place feels more important.
At work that naturally leads to ToDos like delegating or building systems to create time; it also leads to making and keeping routines for "this block is for X"; and it leads to cutting relationships that hurt your thinking or time management.
And then you don't fill that time with more work — you make time to think.
Creating time for doing nothing seems to be the point: good thinking is born there, and luck turns your way. That feels like the essence.
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