How to be lucky on Friday 13th - how to avoid Misfortune

How to be lucky on Friday 13th

Friday the 13th is considered an unlucky day by some but it doesn’t have to be. ‘Luck doctor’ Matthew Smith explains how to avoid misfortune.
By Becky Barnes

Friday the 13th comes round at least once a year, and with 2015 boasting three of the unlucky days, the year ahead is a miserable prospect for any friggatriskaidekaphobes – people with an irrational fear of the fateful date.

But Dr Matthew Smith, a psychologist and ‘luck doctor’ from Buckinghamshire New University, wants people to forget any thoughts that it’s the day which brings bad luck – the misfortune, he says, is all in your own head.

“The concept of attracting bad luck is all in your head; luck is influenced by your thoughts and beliefs and actually comes down to the right balance of accepting what you can’t control and influencing what you can in order to make your own luck,” says Dr Smith.

Here are Dr Smith’s top tips for being lucky on Friday the 13th or indeed any other day of the year.

Embrace 'luck'

Expect good luck

Be open to opportunity

Go with the flow

Stercus accidit

Good luck!