I’m going to tell you exactly what I ‘won’ from playing the lottery in the past.

And these odds are pretty much condenmed to the majority of the people who play.

So what did I win…

• I lost time
• I lost money
• I lost a little part of me that was going deeper into lack and poverty
• I lost my faith in myself to know that there were better ways to make money and know it would be there without having to wait 2 days for some numbers to pop up
• Did i mention i LOST money?
• I lost that dream I had for 10 seconds imagining what I would do if I won
• I lost myself

Now there are probably a few more reasons that I left out, but I just want to explain something about lotteries.

I understand that it’s a collective pool of money and that a lot of it does go to charity.  But isn’t it better for me to make money following leaders and people I look up to so that I can put much more money into these charities whenever I feel like it?

Why is it that people who laughed at me for changing my career and see me doing the things I do now to make myself a better person and to attain the true authentic me are the same people who are miserable in their own jobs.  They now see me happy and think why didn’t I see it before?  I get asked all the time how did you do that, and I tell them.  You know what they tell me?  Oh, I just couldn’t do that.  It makes me laugh.

Those are the same people who now really believe that buying a lottery ticket will change their lives and that they will actually win.

Ok, granted, maybe they will win one day.  But then what?

If the mind is set up for lack, chances are, one way or another the millions will become thousands which will become hundreds and eventually back to that cost of buying the single lottery ticket in the first place.

How does someone with a mindset for poverty and lack keep millions of dollars?  Will they know how to spend the money wisely?  They might just hire some ‘financial advisor’ who will help distribute and invest their money, but then boom moneys all gone. 

Financial advisor maybe took it, maybe made a baaaad decision, either way, the person who won the lottery will somehow end up losing it all if they don’t educate themselves on keeping and growing their money.

It’s the same with any bad habit.  Say you bite your nails for a very long time.  How hard is it to break that habit.  I never had that habit but I know a lot of people who do..and still do.

Look, if you don’t change your mind and the way you think about your experiences, how the heck is anything ever going to change in your life. 

I hear people all the time around me saying I don’t believe in all that self help crap, and then I ask them, and how is your life these days.  Is it a broken record?  They usually reply yes and then spill all their problems while I sit and listen. 

Think about breaking bad habits and ideas in your head like breaking up in a bad relationship.  Once the partner is gone, you’re going to think about them and when they ‘were’ nice and all the good times, but you won’t realize how much better things are until the next relationship comes and it’s everything you’ve ever wanted.

So no more lotteries for me.  I don’t think i’ll ever play again.  I don’t want the mindset of lack.  If there was nothing here for me to want I wouldn’t feel that I needed anything.  It’s all the ’stuff’ out there now that would make one feel like they dind’t have something, so that lack mentality would come about.

Wake up in the morning saying you’ve got it all and see what happens in your life.

Remember, when you win at playing the lottery, you actually lose a lot more then you think.