Playing Lotto Helps Everybody

As you may know, Great Britain won the bid to host the Olympic Games in 2012. And they are using the lottery to raise funds for it.

They are doing this because more than 2.3 billion pounds of public money will be needed. The largest share will come from the lottery.

What a great way to help the world! The fact is that the majority of your lotto money which doesn't go into winnings goes back into the community in some form or other.

You are doing good - whether you win big, or win small!

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A Lucky Meeting At The Supermarket

Let me tell you a little story:

I was waiting in my local lotto shop a while back, standing in line. I don’t normally wait in a queue anywhere, but of course a lotto line is different! This store was a kiosk in a large grocery supermarket chain - the one in the post below - and I go there every day or two just to get out of my home office--meet new people, you know.

Ahead of me in the line, a few people away, there was a women looking expectantly as her tickets were being checked through the machine. Housewife type, not well dressed, but a nice person - you could tell.

Suddenly the till gave that little chiming noise I knew so well (it's called "I'm In The Money").

I identified it straight away because it usually makes that noise for me each week.

Tip: get your tickets checked out by machine instead of doing them yourself. It's far more accurate and takes less time. I have dozens of tickets in play at any time, so it would be insane for me not to!

Anyway, the till chimed and the housewifely woman clapped her hands together with joy. I saw the happiness in her face as the lotto guy counted out about $100 to her from the till pockets. The line was abuzz.

The guy ahead of me in the line turned and said, "That's the first time I've ever seen that happen."

"Like what?" I asked.

"A win," he replied, his eyes doleful. "Never had one, never seen anyone else get one either."

As the women skipped passed us tucking her money into her purse, a smile still covering her face, I had a sudden thought.

From the wad of tickets in my special lotto wallet, I pulled one out and handed it to him.

"What's this?" he asked suspiciously, peering at the old-fashioned ticket.

At this point I have to tell you something about lotto tickets.

I've been using my system a long time, and it wins a lot of times. And I use the same tickets and set of numbers each time. This is the part of the Silver Lotto System secret that I haven't revealed anywhere before. So now you know!

Anyhow, it was one of the old series from a couple of years back that was still making me money. And in an impulsive move I gave this one coupon to the morose guy in front of me.

"Have a try with this, with my compliments," I said. He seemed reluctant. "Go on, it'll only cost you $3.50 to play." And in an effort in explain my action, I told him it was part of a system that gave me wins most weeks, but that I was going to change it shortly. So he could have my old ticket.

Well, the line wound its way up to the counter, we got served and we went our separate ways. I went off to buy the day's groceries, and my friend disappeared into the carpark. I thought nothing more of it.

Until last week.

I was back in the store, looking for some grapefruit juice. We're non-drinkers, my wife and I, but this non-alcoholic stuff is packaged like wine and makes us feel special. Yes, the stupid things we do to delude ourselves!

As I stood up with the bottle in my hand, standing in front of me was the guy from the lotto line a couple month's back, grinning at me.

I knew he had some good news to tell me, just by the expression on his face.

Without saying a word, he pulled his wallet from his back pocket and started peeling off some notes. Handing them to me, he said, "Mate, your ticket saved my bacon, so this is for you." (Some New Zealanders use 'mate' as a replacement for 'sir' or 'friend.')

Well, it turns out his phone was about to be cut off the afternoon I first met him in line, and he was between paydays--as some people are. So the lotto win not only paid for his phone to be reconnected, but there was enough over to buy his daughter some material for a school project she desperately needed.

I pushed the money back to him. "My reward is that it worked for you," I said, "I don't need your share."

Here's my point: You don't need a lot of money to win with the Silver Lotto System. Just enthusiasm.

And maybe a little generosity.

Did you know that while I'm not giving away my system just yet, it's still at the best and lowest price I can give you today?

Go for it!

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Should You Give Your Family Your Winnings?

I've given away tens of thousands of dollars to my immediate family for one reason or other.

But when I look back to see how the money has helped them, I see no real change or improvement in their lives. Sure, I've got plenty of pats on the back from them. Maybe they even love me a little bit more. But it hasn't helped them long-term a single bit.

Here's why...

From childhood onwards, our accumulated experiences build an Emotional Calculator inside us which tells us how to control money. Experts tell us that the way we control money has nothing to do with its usefulness, but everything to do with how we perceive it.

For some folk money is power. For others it represents freedom. Some find it evil.

Yet all of these conditions merely reflect ourselves... our attitudes... our thinking... our personal history.

Very few of us have a structured financial upbringing. Instead our money attitudes come from the people we mix with, the books we read, the TV programs we watch. Despite what many people tell you, our money decisions are made with our hearts - and not our minds. It's often 99% emotional.

That's why many of us fail our budgets, and why we overspend. And why we get satisfaction when we shop, or spend when we're down.

How many stories have you read about people in poverty dying in their tiny, filthy apartments - which later is found to contain hundreds of thousands of dollars hidden under the mattress? These people haven't figured out money.

In New York some years ago, what appeared to be a penniless bum wandering the streets was actually a wealthy woman. She was unable to spend her fortune because of emotional issues relating to her childhood.

And how many lotto winners are completely broke two years after the win... regardless of the amount? Answer: - most of them. Because they don't know how control it.

So giving money to people to solve their problems is just like putting a bandage over the wound.

If you see people making the same financial mistake again and again, giving them your lotto winnings won't solve the problem. It will only give them temporary relief, and then they're stuck with the same problem until they figure out the real solution - inside them.

You first have to figure out what they need, and then find other ways around it. For example, if your children can't afford to buy their first home, don't give them the deposit. Instead, put your own home up as security against their mortgage. (There are many ways to do that, and your accountant is the best person to advise you).

So I don't give money anymore. Certainly I make measured donations to charities, but only when I'm sure it's going to the right people. To others who need money, I come up with solutions instead. It doesn't make me that popular, but when these folk are forced to confront themselves - often for the first time in their financial lives - it's amazing what they can do to change.

We humans are designed to triumph over adversity, even though it's a struggle sometimes. It's character building. What's your character like?

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