Examing Life’s Lessons

How to win the lottery. Buy a winning ticket.

*nods* There you go, that is the way to win the lottery.

Quit pulling my chain, AC, you are probably thinking. If that is all you have to say, then you are wasting my time. You are quite right, my friend, I would be yanking your chain if that was the substance of this article. However, it is not so put on hold the flaming email you were about to send me.

I think just about everyone has dreamed of what they would do if they won the lottery. What would you do first if a few cool millions came your way? What would you buy first? How much would you save? Who would you bestow gifts upon? Whom would you not? If can be a fun and revealing exercise.

I have indulged in this fanciful thinking. I have envisioned the home repairs I could make. Forget that, I have envisioned the home I would build on the land I would buy that would only be accessible by helicopter or mountain goat. Dreams of swooping in and doing a home make over a la a certain TV show that rebuilds homes in a week. How about a trip around the world first class all the way? The biggest screen TV, a powerful computer along with the largest monitor available and throw in a few vehicles and screw thoughts of the environment. Sounds like a few politicians I have heard reported, but now I digress.

I have never bought a lottery ticket.

Yep, you read that right. I have not pick one single set of numbers for any lottery. For at least 25 years I have imagined what I would do if I won the lottery. I have virtually wasted this time. I have wasted energy in trying to decide what I would do with something I have made zero effort to make happen.

I have finally had enough with this useless path of my imagination. Whenever, I start to think about this scenario, I look to find something to focus on that I will actually pursue. I now have a notebook that is filling up with journal entries, goals, objectives and the status on the goals/objectives. A couple of the goals have been accomplished as I try to make sure they are not so far out that I get frustrated.

What have you dreamed about that you have never gotten beyond daydreaming? What can you do to take that first step?

How do you guarantee yourself that you will never reach a destination? Never take a single step down that path. It is never enough to think about doing something. There must be some sort of action.