The Lottery Mentality

Abundance is something that’s very powerful and that we all want in life, but here is what a lot of us have is this sort of mentality and expectations all play into this. It’s like some of us have this sort of lottery mentality, right? It’s like: “Let’s make this thing happen”. “I want the lottery”. “I want the universe to give me everything”. “I want the universe to open the door and to do the work”. When the principle law of abundance says “WE” really need to do the work. The doors open up, you bet, but when we are ready and willing to do the work, that’s when things happen. When “WE” do the work, the universe opens up more doors of opportunities, and we do more work, the result is abundance. Now, we talked about the lottery and how the lottery mentality really kind of robs us of that because we are not really prepared wholly to have that thing that we want in life. (Like the people that win a lottery). They win a lottery what happens, they end up losing their money. Even bigger things happen. A large percentage of them end up doing things they have never done before. In fact I saw studies that showed that about 30% of the people that win a lottery end up committing a first time felony. So, it really creates problems. So, it tells a really sad story about people. They are not prepared to handle the results. So, the lottery really cheats those winners (So called winners) of the opportunity to grow in preparation for the gift and the losers and the desire to do the work of preparation. The power of abundance is very real. Tapping into it is crucial. The universe opens the doors, we do the work, but when we ask universe to do the work, we frustrate the plan and then we are left frustrated, angry, and depressed. So, how do expectations play into that? Even if it’s somebody else’s expectation, it might be extremely challenging to live in the now if you got expectations and somebody else has expectations, right? Because the now is the only place you can turn dreams into reality; that’s it and if we are preoccupied with thoughts that drive feelings of fear or frustration or stress or resentment, even anger, we are going to be tempted to consider any changes. Have ever heard the grass is greener on the other side? Yeah; it’s not that the grass is greener, just that there is Astroturf over there or maybe that person is just really, really taking care of their lawn. Is the grass really greener? Maybe, but before we need to make any external changes in our life, we need to explore these expectations that maybe put on us or we maybe having, unrealistic expectations, because if we have unrealistic expectations and we use that as the measuring stick for our lives and again these are only ideas that we have, expectations, ideas about how life should be and we become committed to those, reality never stacks up to those expectations, ever, but again we are using those expectations as the measuring rod. So then what do we do? Whose fault is it? Ours, something wrong with us? We can’t turn that stuff into reality; there must be something wrong with me. “I want that thing”. I am trying to make it happen, but nothing seems to work; nothing is measuring up. Life is an interruption; if you will; an inconvenience because we cannot make the thing we want come into fruition, come into reality, but it’s basically bottom line because we have an unrealistic expectation. Like somebody who says, “Hey, I want a lottery; I want that now. I want it absolutely. I want it now.” It’s not coming quick enough; it’s not coming fast enough. Maybe we are just not prepared to have that yet. So, we need to create a plan, a plan of action that says, “Hey, you know what? Here is my plan for turning my dreams into reality” And a lot of people will say, “You got it, you know you got to really work on that thing, that thing that you want.” So, for example if you want a million dollars, we need to focus all of our energy on making the million dollars or we need to focus all of our energy on the exotic sports car, and if we focus on that, then it will sort of magically manifest. Once in a while it does, but it’s almost accidentally that people get that. Now, the different approach is this. Successful people basically live in the here and now; that’s it and if they spend any time visiting their castle in the sky if you will, it’s to learn what needs to be done in the here and now to make it happen. The key word there is “ACTION.” So, what I want to approach is working on improving you, becoming a different you or more of what you already are. Instead of focusing on a million dollars, what if that millionaire or that potential millionaire was to focus on what that person needed to do to have a million dollars? What kind of person they needed to become to have the million dollars? If somebody wants an exotic sports car or Cadillac or whatever level they want to go to in their organization, the bottom line is when they focus on becoming somebody different and the things that you can do to become that person, then you will have the things necessary. It’s like the person that wins a lottery, right? I don’t know if I shared this with you, but there was a story about a person that won a lottery in New York City and here is what happened. Six months later, this man showed up with a lottery ticket and said “Here we go, here is my lottery ticket.” What did you do for the last six months? Well, what this man had been doing, he had been preparing himself to have a million dollars. He had hired lawyers, financial people, he knew where the money was going to go to, where it was going to be spent, how it was going to be handled. He and his wife and children had been seeing certain psychologists and therapists and coaches to help them with how their life was going to be different and how it might change. He was preparing himself completely and wholly to have that money before he had it. That’s what I want you to work on, to work on becoming the person who will have the thing you want, instead of focusing on the thing you want.