Personally, I have a lot to be thankful for this Thanksgiving Day.

First and foremost, I am deeply grateful to all of you amazing to visitors and participants who are there helping to make Russian Women the real truth is what it is.

Hopefully, this site is a modest, but significant as a beacon for those of you who wish to pursue their dreams, to find love, happiness and a little truth in this often upside down world of ours.

Not only do I wish you all the luck, but I would also like to add one very important caveat to this request.

You can literally make your own luck.

My life is here and beautiful love I receive is a testament to this.

I know, I live in another world, something that many of you are accustomed to.

But this is only true because like so many others ..

I just decided to start walking toward him.

Not only can you do the same thing .. But if there is such a desire in your soul, you have to do the same for themselves.

I think this is a test that the people at the top gives all of us at some critical point in our lives.

I know first hand that this journey will be successful if you do it with an open heart and mind.

It's not just warm and fuzzy fluff designed to make you feel good.

Its the real deal ..

So on that note I would like to share with you an important article that I hope you will all take to heart.

Where I come from, and the life I now have living proof of its validity ..

    How to Get Lucky

    Scientific proof that you make your own breaks

    Richard Wieseman

    For centuries, people have recognized the power of luck and do everything they can to try to capture it. Take the knocks on wood, thinking back to pagan rituals to help identify the mighty gods of wood. We still do it today, though few, if any, of us worship tree gods. So why do we pass this and other superstitions from generation to generation? The answer lies in the power of luck.

    Live Charmed Life

    To investigate scientifically why some people continually are lucky and others do not, I advertised in national periodicals for both kinds of volunteers. Four hundred men and women from all walks of life - between the ages of 18 to 84 - responded.

    In the ten years, I interviewed these volunteers, asked them to fill in diaries, personality questionnaires, tests and IQ, and invited them to his laboratory for experiments. Lucky people, I found a way through some basic principles - a chance to seize the opportunities, the creation of an independent prophecies through positive expectations and adopt a sustainable relationship that turns bad luck around.

    Open Your Mind

    Consider opportunities: Lucky people regularly have them; unlucky people do not. To determine why, I gave the happy and unhappy people of the newspaper and asked them to tell me how many photographs were inside. On average, the unlucky people spent about two minutes on this exercise; lucky spent seconds. Why? Because on the second page of the newspaper - in large type - was the message "Stop counting: There are 43 pictures in the newspaper." Lucky people tend to place the message. Unlucky ones did not. I put the second half of the paper: "Stop counting, tell the experimenter you have seen this and win $ 250." Again, no luck for people missed it.

    The lesson: Unlucky people miss chance opportunities because they are too busy looking for something else. Lucky people see what's there, not just what they are looking for.

    This is only part of the story. Many of my happiest participants tried to add variety to your life. Before making important decisions, one changed his route to work. Another described how meeting people. He noticed that at parties he used to say with the same type of person. To change this, he thought about the color and then spoke only to guests wearing this color - women in red or, say, men in black.

    Does this technique work? Well, imagine living in the center of the apple orchard. Every day you have to collect apple cart. At first, it will not matter where you look. The entire garden will be apples. Gradually, it becomes harder to find apples in places you've visited before. If you go to a new part of the garden each time, the chances of finding apples will increase dramatically. This is exactly the same, if you're lucky.

    Condiments Upside

    Another important principle revolved around how happy and unhappy people are faced with disaster. Imagine representing your country at the Olympics. You compete, do well and win the bronze medal. Now imagine, the second Olympics. At this time you do even better and win the silver medal. How happy do you think you would feel? Most of us think we would be happier winning the silver medal.

    But research suggests athletes who win bronze medals are actually happier. This is because the silver medalists think that if they run a little better, they may have won the gold medal. In contrast, bronze medalists focus on how, if they performed slightly worse, they could not have won anything. Psychologists call this ability to imagine what could happen, not what actually happened, "hypothetical" thinking.

    To find out if they are lucky people use against the actual thinking, to facilitate the impact of misfortune, I asked my subjects to imagine themselves in the bank. Suddenly, an armed robber enters and fires a shot that hits their hands. Unlucky people tend to say that it is their misfortune to be in the bank during the robbery. Lucky people said it could be worse: "You could have been shot in the head." This kind of thinking makes people feel better, keeps expectations high, and increases the likelihood of continuing to live a happy life.

    Learn how to be happy

    Finally, I created a series of experiments considering the thinking and behavior can improve your luck.

    First came one-on-one, during which participants completed questionnaires measured their success and satisfaction with six key areas of their lives. Then I outlined the basic principles of good fortune, and described techniques designed to help participants to respond as happy people. For example, they were taught how to be more open to opportunities around them, how to break routines, and how to deal with bad luck, imagining the other worse. They were asked to carry out special exercises for a month and then report to me.

    The results were dramatic: 80 percent were happier and more satisfied with their lives - and luckier. One unfortunate subject said that after adjusting its attitude - waiting for happiness, not dwelling on the negative - for its failure disappeared. One day she went shopping and found a dress she liked. But she did not buy, and when she returned to the store a week, it was not there. Instead of slinking from disappointed, she looked around and found the best dress - for less money. Events such as this have made her a much happier person.

    Her experience shows how thoughts and behaviors affect the good and the bad state we are facing. This proves that most elusive Holy Grails - the effective way to exploit the power of luck - is available for all of us.