But not in the way you think. It's easy to read tragic stories about lottery winners: broken marriages, addictions to drugs and alcohol, ruined friendships, disastrous investments, and alienation from their social circle. Of course there are counterparts with no financial worries, a stable home life, and a mass of opportunities.
Most of us would still like to win the lottery. And it's the desire, not the winning itself (which is so unlikely as to be an irrelevance), that will screw you up.
Hoping to win the lottery is a passive game. It's like waiting for a knight in shining armour, for a scout to talent-spot you on the street, or for supernatural rescue. Every moment spent thinking about winning the lottery and how your life would be, is a moment wasted in fantasy.
These reveries, these pleasant daydreams, are disempowering. Dreams of an effortless improvement to your life keep you numb to your circumstances and blind to the action you need to take. Waiting for a lottery in any form - maybe an investment that will pay out, a business that will take off, a wealthy relative to donate - keeps you paralysed.
Once you wait for outside circumstances to change your situation, then your situation is never going to change. Accept this, and accept that only one person can change your life: you. Nobody is coming to rescue you. So take action. And take it now.
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