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How to Win the Lottery Lotto Powerball Using the Law of Attraction

January 30, 2009 14 comments

Recently the Powerball hit $165 Million Dollars and I broke down and bought a ticket. I don’t know what makes us feel like the bigger the jackpot, the better the chance we have to win. It’s not true. Everyone has the same chance to win for every ticket they purchase. It doesn’t matter how large the Jackpot is.

I conducted a little experiment with this lotto ticket. I tried my hardest to use the law of attraction to make that $165 miilion mine, but I failed. After I learned of my loss, I took some time to brainstorm the reasons I was not able to make that money mine using the LOA. Here are some of the steps I took to use the LOA to make all those millions mine:

  1. I visualized myself going to get the money
  2. I wrote over and over again this sentence, “The Powerball ticket I bought today is the winning ticket.”
  3. I repeated my numbers as the winning numbers over and over in my head
  4. I even pictured myself giving a lot of it away.

Needless to say, I didn’t win. Now I could go on and say that the Law of Attraction is a bunch of boloney, but I started to think about all the reasons that I didn’t win by using the Law of Attraction.

  1. I knew the odds. Even though I truly wanted to believe that I was going to win the big one, I knew that my odds were more than 195 million to 1.
  2. I kept picturing all the other people who were buying powerball tickets. It’s hard to believe I will win when so many other people are planning (using the law of attraction) to win as well.
  3. My quick-pick numbers were not very well distributed. It is a known fact that the majority of people, who pick their own lotto numbers, pick them in a fairly distributed manner. When the balls drop, they tend to clump together. I just naturally felt like I had some bad numbers. This negativity made me feel like I would not win.
  4. I also had the belief, “Why would God allow me to have that much money? Have I really shown responsibility with what he has given me so far?” these are questions full of doubt that bring negativity to my thoughts.

So you see, I pretty much failed to think perfectly from the get go. I wasn’t thinking perfectly, using the Law of Attraction to its perfect perfection. Theoretically, If I use the law of attraction, I wouldn’t even need to buy a lotto ticket. The winning ticket would be brought to me.

Now the question is posed: How DO I win the lotto using the Law of Attraction?

  1. First off – I should not try to win the lotto. It is too hard to put my mind into the correct positive thinking when the knowledge of the odds and the unseen variables run rampant through my mind. I should focus on my current employment, new employment and/or the success of this weblog to bring me millions. It is more likely I will be able to believe in those things than being able to believe I will be able to win a Powerball jackpot.
  2. If I were to try using the Law of Attraction to win the lottery again, I would do several things differently.
    1. I would play for a lower prize. I would play for something I thought would be possible in my own mind; maybe just earning any cash prize, not just the jackpot. The odds of winning any prize in the Powerball are 1 in 35.
    2. In that way of thinking, If I buy 35 tickets I should be likely to win at least once. I can believe that. I can focus on that being true. I should not eve focus on what the winnings will be. I should only focus on winning. The total winnings will just be a surprise.

I guess after this whole ordeal, I figure it is better to use the Law of Attraction for other aspects of life. There are so many other ways that God can bring massive wealth into my life, I really don’t even need to win the lottery.

I am curious what you think about the whole subject. Write a comment. I would llove to hear from you.

Garden Diary 2009: Time to Plan My Vegetable Raised Bed and Container Plants for the New Year

Garden Diary 2009

2009 will make the third year in a row that I have documented the growth of my garden. In 2007 I grew tomatoes in a kitty litter container and got about a dozen tomatoes off of it. Turned out I had too many plants in the same container. I also experimented with a wick fed cucumber. It did really well. I learned a couple of things from that plant. The first is that you should not fertilize after the plant blooms. The taste of the fertilizer gets into the vegetable. The other thing is that a plant that is planted in soil will do better in the long run as long as you water it.

In 2008 was a little different. Money was a little tighter. I tried to grow the plants with what I had at the house. I had the pots. I gad the seeds from the previous year and I dug up the soil from the backyard. The main problem I had that season was the clay soil I was using. It was rich, but still had a lot of clay in it. I only grew one plant per pot and they grew pretty tall, but they didn’t produce a whole lot.

This year I am planning some minor changes as well as the first year of what I hope to be a multi year project where you will get to watch me grow an apple tree.

As for the minor changes, I will be planting the seeds in potting mix this year; not the clay soil of my backyard. I will be thinning them down to one plant per pot. The other thing I found I should be doing is snapping off the suckers as the plant grows. This will allow the plant to focus on the fruit rather than trying to grow new branches and leaves.

Another thing I would like to try is to update my wick system with a garbage can holding the water. Supposedly the garbage can will be large enough to hold the amount of water needed for the plant to grow all season. If I combine that with the removal of all the suckers, I might be able to get one long plant with a lot of cucumbers on one long vine. That would be interesting.

I had some success with bush beans last year. I want to try them again this year with potting soil. If I can grow enough plants to where I can cultivate a lot of beans to eat, we could actually have some beans for dinner several times throughout the season.

It has also been suggested that I try to grow broccoli this year. It grows in the cool part of the spring and fall. I think I might give that a try as well.

Big dreams I think. We will see if I can find enough money to get it all started. I am going to attempt to do more video this year. I want you all to see the garden better than I presented it last year. Keep an eye out and check back often for updates.