When I was working with my dad downtown, we would always pass a large billboard on the highway, a billboard that had the number for the next Mega millions jackpot. And everyday we passed that billboard, I would think about what I would do if I won all that money, who wouldn’t think about that? The dream life, with the dream wife, smoking a luxury cigar in my luxury car, you get the picture. This thought is not uncommon amongst the rest of the country, as on average, $17 billion dollars is spent on lottery tickets per year, which equals out to about $50 a person in this country, and Americans gambled about $66.5 billion dollars a year in 2023 ALONE.
So many people spend time and money on different forms of lotteries, yet there are lotteries that are all around us, everyday, every opportunity, that just could be the jackpot we are looking for. Knocking on that last door of the last company that FINALLY is willing to pay for your services. Calling that LAST client at 4:55pm that ends up wanting to set up a meeting with you. Showing up again Saturday was supposed to be enjoyable, after months and months of not hitting your workout goal, and miraculously hitting it after so much trial and error! We are willing as Americans to spend so much energy and time betting on the right number to bring us a fortune, but so often, we aren’t willing to throw ourselves into the lottery of being at the right place at the right time, where he could possibly hit the social jackpot, and find out future spouse at the corner that we originally weren’t going to be at, because we didn’t feel like running that day. Or, we decided that we weren’t going to do door to door sales today, because I mean we have been doing the door to door sales every day for the past month, so one day isn’t that bad. But, that day was the day that the millionaire at the end of the block, the mansion that everytime you ring the doorbell are never home…they’re home today.
Case in point, put yourself in more positions of hitting life’s mini-jackpots. Enter yourself into the social lottery, and talk to someone you’ve never talked to, or never thought about having a conversation with. You never know, you could make a new friend, learn something new, have a funny experience, or even just make someone else feel happy and appreciated. A famous director once said that 85-90% of life…is just showing up. Just show up. If you show up, there’s a chance that something could happen. And a chance, sometimes, is all you need to hit the jackpot, at least, that’s what 50% of Americans think about when they buy even one lottery ticket every single. Imagine if you bought a day-to-day life lottery ticket, well, every day? What type of luck would you get, and how big would that luck be?