The Curse Of A Lottery Mindset

In a recurring familiar episode of the so called "Curse of Lottery", Yahoo Buzz features story of a female teenager that won $3million in lottery and lost it in just six years. In an article from AOL, Ms Rogers lamented that "I honestly wish that I'd never won the lottery money-and knowing what I know now, I should have just given it back to them". This unfortunate outcome of lottery windfall is not peculiar to today's world as the "Curse of lottery" has its own consistent record that could be traced back to the cradle of lottery industry itself.

In an earlier related example, the 1993 Missouri Lottery winner, Ms Janite Lee, filed for bankruptcy just eight years after her $18million instant riches. Similarly, a hitherto separated man was coined into splitting his $149million lottery windfall with his estranged wife who only reconciled and live with him for two weeks, just enough to filed for divorce and pocket half of his luck.

The atypical overt response of lottery winners, to the sudden win, in form of shock, crying, nervous breakdown and death exemplifies the lack of winner's mindset prior to richness. Contrast these responses to Tiger Woods' response to winning another green jacket or Barrack Obama's reaction to winning the presidency.

The sharp contrast reflects the fact that Tiger and Obama's outcome resulted from a goal-getting mindset that passionately belief that the goal is possible and attainable, with a specific set of efforts. Consequently, Obama did not go into shock or nervous breakdown as demonstrated by his brilliant acceptance speech just few minutes after the election's conclusion.

More so the "course of lottery' is akin to a more ubiquitous curse, the curse of inheritance that also typifies the potential outcomes that result from a lack of winners mindset prior to becoming rich. The two losers, however, only differs in their initial response to the windfall because "rich man's son" do not go into shock as the jackpot was dully expected.

Nonetheless, the shared commonality lies in the passion for demolishing wealth that far outweigh the mindset for nurturing wealth and expanding opportunities for self, offspring and others.

You don't have to be Barrack Obama or Tiger Woods in order to take control of your own destiny. Just get off your lottery mentality and set a realistic goal for yourself accompanied by a consistently enduring action.

You need to define your own personal legend and commit yourself toward actualizing it. With a winner's mindset, anything and everything is possible with the sky being the only limit. The first step to personal and financial greatness believes in you that any goal is possible, realistic and accomplishable.

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