What It Takes To Be a Lottery Winner – Not All’s Well in the Game of Luck and Chance, You Know!
Sometimes You Have to Bite the Dust!
Okay, big deal! You bought a ticket, you prayed and for some super weird reason you became a lottery winner. So you brag to others saying that you have what it takes to be a lottery winner. Yeah, right. Unfortunately, I’d have to snap you out of that precious dream because it ain’t as easy as it sounds!
Orlando Winters, in his book “Stop Being a F***ing Idiot”, rightly pointed out that,
“People play the lottery all the time unaware of how mind-bogglingly difficult it is to win. It seems like they take a different approach to probabilities. Their rationale must be, “Well, I can either win it or not win it, so my odds of winning are 50/50.”
Back to the topic of this article, what does it really take to be a lottery winner? Apart from the points I’ll be mentioning below, it takes balls of steel to be a lottery winner! No, really, let’s stop beating around the bush and find out the hard side of being a lottery winner:
Lottery Winner Tip #1 – Must Have Balls of Steel
When I say balls of steel, I mean balls of steel! To become a lottery winner you need to face a lot of ups and downs of life. For example, if your wife gives you money to buy a bottle of milk and you have an urge to buy your lottery ticket, you must be able to fight that temptation and buy that bottle of milk instead of buying the ticket. You might hate yourself for doing this, but once you get this habit, you’ll be able to fight bigger temptations and gain respect from your fellows.
Lottery Winner Tip #2 – Must Be a Miser When Required
On “How To Construct A Coffin With Six Karate Chops”, Jarod Kintz quoted,
“Extended family is great. If you want to know how extended your family is, just go out and win the lottery. Your phone will be ringing nonstop. And you know I’ll call you too, because I’m your fifth cousin on your father’s side.”
If you keep giving, you’ll end up with less than a penny to spend on nothing, actually. So when you become a lottery winner, learn to be miser.
Lottery Winner Tip #3 – Must Remember True Family
Sometimes what happens is that when people become lottery winners, they make new friends, they consider new families as their own, they start living a life of their dreams, only leaving behind the people who truly cared for them before they won the lottery. Don’t do this. Be compassionate.
Lottery Winner Tip #4 – Must Be Able to Digest Criticism
As a lottery winner, you must be able to digest criticism, whether positive or negative without losing your marbles. Sometimes lottery winners think that winning gives them the right to say anything, do anything. But hear me out, because a lot of people will be jealous of you, they will criticize you. As a genuine lottery winner, criticism shouldn’t matter to you. At all.
Lottery Winner Tip #5 – Must Take Expert Advice
Becoming a lottery winner doesn’t mean that you become the smartest person on earth. Money can buy advice, but it certainly can’t buy you experience! So make sure that after winning the lottery you take expert advice on how to use the money so you don’t end up making the same silly mistakes as other lottery winners.
Lottery Winner Tip #6 – Must Ensure Self-Safety
How many times have you heard that lottery winners get robbed thanks to the way they expose their winnings? If you want to lose your winnings before you even buy yourself a car, go ahead and walk around town with money and you won’t return with them! The lesson is that when you become a lottery winner, make you’re your safe because in today’s world, what’s yours is mine, and what’s mine is none of your business.
Lottery Winner #7 – Must Not Waste Time
As a lottery winner you shouldn’t waste your precious time on silly things and silly purchases. They’re not worth it because in the end, what matters is that when you’re old and weak, you have money to look after yourself. Boob jobs, lip jobs certainly won’t look good when the rest of your body is wrinkled and old! So make sure you have money to buy medications!
Lottery Winner #8 – Must Not Be Greedy
Need I stress enough how much this is important? So you won the lottery once, don’t think for once that now you’re lucky and you can win again! Please I know a lot of people who have squandered huge amounts of money just to buy tickets and in the end they find out they waster more than what they initially won.
Lottery Winner #9 – Must Not Get Carried Away
If someone says that you’ll be luckier if you buy a cow, don’t believe it. What happens is that when you become a lottery winner, you kind of become a star, someone everyone wants to be around, everyone wants to please. So be careful when you’re around people. Don’t just get carried away because a certain someone has mentioned that they have years of experience making others lucky! It’s not true!
Lottery Winner #10 – Must Preserve Lottery Winnings for the Rest of the Family
Yeah, this is a no-brainer isn’t it? What’s the purpose of winning when your children and their children can’t benefit from your lottery ticket? Be smart.
Words of Wisdom for a Lottery Winner
Listen to your heart, the one before you win the lottery (because after winning, even your heart becomes greedy! And do what’s right!
