When I was little, my best friend Ruth and I used to sit around on the grass after church hunting for 4-leaf clovers. Ruth seemed expert at the task and found several of them. I, on the other hand, don’t recall ever finding a 4-leaf clover. It seemed so impossible, like looking for a needle in a haystack.
This afternoon, I went outside to shoot hoops with my 10-year-old. I found him sitting in the grass looking for 4-leaf clovers. We shot for a while and then I decided to take a break and stood, inspecting a patch of larger-than-normal clover.
My son plopped right down and almost instantly found a four-leaf. He explained that it’s genetic.
“What? It takes a genetic ability to find them?” I teased.
“It’s in the root system,” he announced with the authority of a seasoned botanist. “If you find one, you’ll find more.”
Encouraged by his observation, I sat on the grass. Within a minute or two, right there in front of me was a four-leaf clover! The first I’d ever found on my own.
Was it because I thought they were hard to find that I couldn’t see them before? Did I find one today because my son shared his clover-theory and instilled the belief that it was not only possible, but also likely since he had just found one?
How significant of a role does expectation play in “luck?” I tend to believe it could be quite significant. What do you think?
About Marnie Pehrson Kuhns
Marnie Pehrson Kuhns is a Certified SimplyAlign Practitioner™ who uses music and creativity to mentor you past barriers, fears and doubts to discover, create, align with, and deliver your soul’s song (the mission, message or purpose you are on this earth to live). Marnie is a best-selling author with 31 fiction and nonfiction titles. If you'd like Marnie and her husband Dave to work with you personally on Your Great Reinvention, get a FREE 20-minute strategy session with Marnie here.
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