Lucky Girl Syndrome

Written By : Hannah Corbett

So, you think you’re lucky? You get the best fortune cookies, jobs fall into your lap, the sun shines the brightest on your birthday, and the pennies you find are always heads up. You may have fallen victim to Lucky Girl Syndrome.

At first glance, it’s easy to dismiss, another internet buzzword, another shiny trend packaged in a bow of glittery captions and lip gloss confidence. But something about this one feels different. Maybe because “luck” isn’t a new idea. It’s older than TikTok affirmations and Pinterest boards— woven into history, mythology, family stories, and the kind of serendipitous moments we replay in our minds for years.

I’ve never been one to believe that sitting cross-legged and chanting money, love, success will make those things knock on my door. I don’t exactly think a Chanel bag will arrive just because I thought about it hard enough. But I do believe in fate. In destiny. And in the strange way life seems to reward people who keep showing up for it.

Of course, sometimes luck is completely out of our control. People really do win the lottery— My sister’s best friend’s grandparents actually won the Powerball in their 20s. I can barely wrap my head around it. But stories like that remind me that while life isn’t always fair, it is always unpredictable. And sometimes, wildly lucky things happen to completely ordinary people.

But the way I think about manifesting — the version of “Lucky Girl Syndrome” I can get behind — is less about daydreaming and more about design. Turning your life into the best version of itself, one simple choice at a time. Because when you string together genuinely good days, one after another, eventually, you realize you’re not just “manifesting” your dream life. You’re actually living it.

My sister showed me this TikTok account where a guy narrates ‘dream days’. It’s not complicated: wake up, coffee, pilates, beach, dinner, drinks. That’s it. And yet, watching him say it out loud made something click. I started trying it myself, almost like a ritual: wake up, coffee, morning walk, farmer’s market, get work done, pilates, cook dinner, sunset walk. At first, it felt silly. But slowly, those words stopped being an idea, they became my actual days.

And somewhere in between my morning walks and sunsets on the beach, I realized something: when you start living your days with intention, luck has more room to find you.

Because here’s the thing: you’re not going to stumble upon luck, wealth, love, or even adventure if you’re curled up on the couch rewatching Gilmore Girls for the sixth time (cause trust me, I’ve done it). Luck doesn’t knock on your door while you’re waiting. It finds you when you’re out in the world. In the coffee shop line where you strike up a conversation. On the walk where you notice a penny heads-up on the sidewalk. In the “yes” you say to an event that feels inconvenient at first but leads to a serendipitous connection.

Maybe that’s the secret.  Lucky Girl Syndrome isn’t so much about believing the universe owes you something, t’s about putting yourself in the position to receive it. Physically, mentally, emotionally. When you walk through the world expecting good things, you notice them more. And when you’re actively building the life you want, those “lucky” breaks don’t feel like coincidences. They feel like inevitabilities.