5 Signs That You Need a Break from Playing the Lottery
Playing the Lottery Starts to Affect Your Emotions and Private Life
Playing the lottery as any other hobby can eventually start to affect your everyday activities. The reasons behind this influence can hide in many places. One of them might be the time you invest and the effort you put into devising a way to win the lottery. Even once you come up with your number combinations and you buy the tickets you’re still talking about it with members of your family or your friends. This is an initial sign of obsession. The people with whom you’re talking to may not be into the lottery and don’t want to hear about your winnings or your losses. I don’t even want to mention explaining them your strategies. You don’t want them to start avoiding you. Before any serious damage is done, you better take a break from playing the lottery. Not too long, but enough to cool your head and realize what have you done over the past period.
Who knows, maybe after this break you’re going to crack the lottery and go into a winning spree.
You Perpetually Increase Your Lottery Budget
You have to know your limits. Even once you set the limits you must follow them, otherwise they are just pointless boundaries. Soon after you start spending big money on playing the lottery, it’s expected to see improved results. Overall your winning will increase, but so will your expenses for your hobby.
This is a sign of addiction. Hold on, I don’t want you jumping to any premature conclusions about this statement I just made. I’m saying addiction not because it is, but because you’re making it look that way. Bear with me now as I don’t want you to misunderstand me. Increasing your budget will eventually start eating away money which you’re saving for another purpose. If this happens, well, by now your life can pretty much fit in a movie script. You should keep your budget low enough so it can still be called a hobby or entertainment. Spending big money makes it an investment with high risk.
I think we should agree that playing the lottery shouldn’t use much of your disposable income. If your gameplay starts eating away your income, it’s time for a break. Remember, keep your head cold.
You Start Buying Lottery Tickets You Can’t Afford
The heading says it all. Don’t mix this with what we said earlier about increasing your budget. This is a whole different level. The warning sign should be lit by now. By tickets you can’t afford I mean borrowing money or breaching your credit card limit for playing the lottery. You don’t want to end up as a popular failure among your friends and wider family. Take a break and you’ll be able to get back on track again. Lottery is a form of entertainment in the first place.
By this point some of your friends who are aware what you’re doing should have approached you and tell you that you’re doing something wrong. This may seem ludicrously to you, but there are people out there who ruined their lives because they desperately wanted to be a step ahead of other lottery players. In the end all they got was something of a reverse jackpot, they didn’t get any money, instead they wasted their fortune trying to win something greater. I would never spend money I don’t have to win money I may win. However, if I have quite a large chunk of my income as disposable I’d play the lottery non-stop. That’s what I like, that’s my passion. I believe I can win the jackpot, but not with money that isn’t mine in the first place. As the main character in the movie Nightcrawler says:
“If you want to win the lottery you have to go out and earn the money to buy the ticket.”
Your Lottery Tickets Are Never Prize Winning – Cool Your Head
Some lottery players when are on a losing streak tend to invest more time and money. I would like to ask you something. When you’re trying to fix something around the house are you trying harder or stop for a moment and see why it doesn’t work? See? It’s that easy. Work smarter, not harder. Losing lottery tickets are the result of your lack of ingenuity. I know I can’t win all the time, but after every few draws I win a significant amount of money that keeps me afloat. There was a time when I had to take a break myself. I needed it. Working smarter proved to be a lot better than working harder, or in other words spending more money. Once you have a clear overview of your current strategy you’ll be able to work around that and improve it.
Members of Your Family or Your Friends Intervened
Let this be a summary of all signs I pointed out. It’s probably the harshest, but you know there’s somebody that cares for you. They probably support you in any area, playing the lottery is certainly one of them. Although there are times when you need to step back and take a break. You don’t have to feel bad about this, instead let it be a warning sign that you should take things easy. Lady Luck will smile at you!
