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The Curse of A Lottery Mindset

Written by: Adeshola Afolabi

Article Overview: In a recurring familiar episode of the so called "Curse of Lottery", Yahoo Buzz features story of a female teenager that won $3 million in lottery and lost it in just six years. In an article from AOL, Ms Rogers lamented that "I honestly wish that I'd never won the lottery money-and knowing what I know now, I should have just given it back to them". The atypical overt response of lottery winners, to the sudden win, in form of shock, crying, nervous breakdown and death exemplifies the lack of winner's mindset prior to affluent. Contrast these responses to Tiger Woods' response to winning another green jacket or Barrack Obama's reaction to winning the presidency..........

The Curse of A Lottery Mindset

In a recurring familiar episode of the so called "Curse of Lottery",Yahoo Buzzfeatures story of a female teenager that won $3million in lottery and lost it in just six years. In an article from AOL, Ms Rogers lamented that "I honestly wish that I'd never won the lottery money-and knowing what I know now, I should have just given it back to them". This unfortunate outcome of lottery windfall is not peculiar to today's world as the "Curse of lottery" has its own consistentrecord that could be traced back to thecradle of lottery industry itself. In an earlier related example, the 1993 Missouri Lottery winner, Ms Janite Lee, filed for bankruptcyjust eight years after her $18million instant riches. Similarly, a hitherto separated man was coined into splitting his $149million lottery windfall with his estrangedwife who only reconciled and live with him for two weeks, just enough to filed for divorce and pocket half of his luck.

The atypical overtresponse of lotterywinners, to the sudden win, in form of shock, crying, nervous breakdown and death exemplifies the lack ofwinners' mindsetprior to affluent. Contrast these responses toTiger Woods' response to winning another green jacket or Barrack Obama's reaction towinning the presidency.

The sharp contrast reflects the fact that Tiger and Obama's outcome resulted from a goal-getting mindset that passionately belief that the goal is possible and attainable with a specific set of efforts. Consequently, Obamadid not go into shock or nervous breakdown as demonstrated by his brilliant acceptance speech justfew minutes after the election's conclusion. Likewise, Tiger Woods trademark smiles everytime he wins depict a mindset that was expected the coveted outcomes.

More so the"course of lottery' is akin to a more ubiquitous curse, the curse of inheritance that also typifies the potential outcomes that result from a lack ofwinner's mindset prior to becoming rich. The two losers, however, only differs in their initial response to the windfall because "rich man's son" do not go into shock as the jackpot was dully expected. Nonetheless, the shared commonalitylies in the passion for demolishing wealth that far outweigh the mindset for nurturing wealth andexpanding opportunities for self, offspring and others.

You don't have to be Barrack Obama or Tiger Woods in order to take control of your own destiny. Just get off your lottery mentality and set a realistic goal for yourself accompanied by a consistently enduring action. Your miracle is in your own hand and it's only you that could make it happen.

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