What, in your opinion, does 'good luck' or 'bad luck' consist of?

Your perspective, really. Discarding negative experiences + positive thinking = good luck. And vice versa.

It's nothing to do with luck really (with few coincidences; for example, winning the lottery). Some people just know how to make things work for them.

Random chance. Nothing controls it.

Karma

For the sake of this question, I think that the concept of luck is undefinitive, even more so with the associated adjectives and one cannot apply a measure to it. It could mean everything or nothing.

Hope for the best and plan for the worst seems to get the best results for me.

There's nothing like fate or karma or any deities but it's more than random chance. It's random chance plus people's perceptions, awareness, opinions and attitudes. In other words, to a great extent luck is what people make of random chance.

Well put.

Thank you.

I know it's random, but sometimes I entertain the notion that a specific person or object has a certain knack for luck whether it be good or bad. It's just a human thing that can soften the edge of random events.

action=consequence
coupled with
the energy, be it negative or positive that we put out....seems to reflect right back.

Not always, unfortunately.

My SO was recently telling me about a study in which people who said they had bad luck were taught to change it by thinking more positively. It worked in a huge majority of cases. That suggests to me that it's all about your own expectations and self-sabotage.

You shouldn't question it. You should just follow the rules -- Just in case.

Here are a few to get you started:

1. Put your right shoe on first.
2. Do not walk under ladders.
3. Never match your socks.
4. Blow eyelashes and wish.
5. Anytime you look at a clock and the numbers have any signifigance or are in order or all the same (12:34, 3:33, 4:56, etc.), make a wish.
6. Do not kill crickets indoors.
7. When you make a wish, never stray from your main wish. Keep it consistant. A stray wish can fudge everything up.

I donno

Cause and effect, action and reaction. Also negitive and positive thinking.

Really, there's no such thing as "luck." God is One of providence: He alone guides all the affairs of men.

If that's true, that a God "guides all the affairs of men", then he is one sick bastard.