One of my favorite places to look for ideas is Google Trends. Maybe I just haven’t been paying attention, but there are a lot of results today for lotteries of one sort or another. Seems the Powerball had three winners of $800,000-not a bad return on an invest of a dollar or two.
According to MarketWatch Powerball players spent $16,281,896 in Powerball and Power Play tickets between Sunday and Wednesday night. Which means that somewhere in the neighborhood of 16 million people didn’t win $800,000.
The desire to get something for nothing is a pretty strong one. Gambling has always attracted the poor and the desperate, and has helped to make people poor and desperate as well. While it is easy to think about places like Las Vegas as being Sin City, Lotteries are run by The Government. These are supposed to be the good guys, though in all honesty I have never thought of the Government as all that good.
My retire plan pretty much involves winning the lottery. I’ve always been a fan of that whole Law of Attraction kind of thing-Know what one desires and ask the universe for it. Focus one’s thought upon the thing desired with great feeling such as enthusiasm or gratitude. Feel and behave as if the object of one’s desire is already acquired. Be open to receiving it. Unfortunately, I have never been able to use the Law of Attraction to win the lotto. Though I have found it easier to get good parking spaces.
So is winning the lotto your big dream? I’d like to think I’ll be a best selling author one day, but it seems a little less likely than winning the lottery. I could always write that novel after winning the lotto-in Paris or London or maybe Rome.
