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You're listening to Live Free Creative, an intentional podcast with practical

tips for living your life on purpose. I'm your host Miranda Miranda Anderson, and I believe in creativity, adventure,

curiosity, and the magic of small moments. I hope that every time you listen, you feel empowered and free to live the life that

you want. Hello, welcome back to the free creative podcast. This is Miranda Anderson and you're

listening to episode 178, get lucky.

If you're listening the week this is released,

it is St. Patrick's Day here in the United States.

In Ireland, I'm guessing maybe other places, I'm not sure how worldwide of a holiday St. Patrick's Day is. Over here, it's a day to wear green, to collect four leaf clovers, to slide down the rainbow to your pot of gold and of course to be lucky.

I love the idea of luck. In fact in a podcast that I did in my first season, I talked all about the advantages of optimism and how being optimistic can lead you to be lucky.

In today's episode, I want to share four specific ways that are based in research and evidence-based practices around how you can actually cultivate luck in your own life. Before I dive in to how to get lucky,

let's do a quick segment called Notes from Nature. Here's a few things that you might not know about the four-leaf clover. They're everywhere right now for

St. Patrick's Day, but they actually began as symbols of good luck in centuries-oldid legends and in the very early days of Ireland

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