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Idiom: Down on your luck
If you feel like you’re having a bad day, you may be down on your luck.
Sometimes no matter what you do, bad luck follows you around.
You could be in a bad situation regarding romance or family matters.
Perhaps you’re experiencing financial difficulties and are at a loss as to how you can get yourself back in the black.
The reason why you find yourself down on your luck and in a negative situation doesn’t matter.
All that matters is how you can get yourself back on easy street again.
Some people believe in the adage that everything comes in threes.
You may be having a bad hair day.
It could be that your train experiences a delay due to track signal problems.
When you get to work, you learn that the 3:00 p.m. meeting has been moved up to 10:30 a.m.
Great! (This is sarcasm.)
For some reason, you find yourself down on your luck.
If that’s true, you’ve had your three bad things for the day and are due for a stroke of good luck.
Perhaps you will finally decide to change your hairstyle, or the outcome of the meeting will be very beneficial to you.
On the other hand, some people believe that we make our luck.
They think that if we find ourselves down on our luck, the best thing to do is make the best out of a bad situation and put ourselves in a position where good things can happen.
If you’re having a bad hair day, wear a hat.
It may be a new look for you.
If your train is delayed, use that as an opportunity to get some extra reading that you’ve been planning to do, done.
If an afternoon meeting has been moved up, take that as an opportunity to stop being a procrastinator.
Yes, you may work better under stress, but stress can kill you.
The next time you find yourself down on your luck, turn a negative into a positive and keep moving forward.
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