Create the need to talk in your new language. Regularly, seek opportunities for conversations, brief and long, with old neighbors and new friends.

Start with short sentences. Be prepared to make mistakes. Welcome when someone corrects you.

You can increase your good luck by taking action.

The person that works hard, pursues opportunities and tries more things is more likely to stumble across a lucky chance than the person who waits with the hope that an opportunity will come to him.

Pay close attention to what ‘spikes’ up your emotions, those triggers that are felt when someone challenges you, or provides you with information that is new to you or does not align with your reality. 

This cognitive dissonance (the state of holding two or more contradictory beliefs) ma...