Many people start their new year’s resolutions after the count down to midnight. This is great – A new year is a fresh beginning to make positive changes and improvements to your life. You have the usual resolutions like losing weight, getting in shape, cutting down on drinking, and quitting smoking. But some people go even further and come up with creative resolutions. One creative resolution that some people come up with is winning the lottery. They may say to themselves, “this is the year that I win the lottery and become a millionaire!” But is winning the lottery a good new year’s resolution?
This is a tricky one because there are both positives and negatives of making such a resolution. The positive is that it is great to think positively. Positive thinking in any aspect of your life is great, including thinking positively about winning the lottery. If you dream about what your life will be like after winning millions of dollars in the lottery, that is fantastic. Daydreaming never hurt anybody and could also be therapeutic.
There are negatives, however, of making a new year’s resolution to win the lottery. Consider this – Does this new resolution require you to spend more money on the purchase of lottery tickets? If so, that may be bad. The lottery has astronomical odds and you will probably not win the jackpot in your lifetime, let alone in the upcoming year. So if you spend more money than you can afford on lottery tickets, this is bad. You should never spend money that you need for other things in your life – food, clothing, and shelter, for example – on lotto tickets.
Further, if you make a new year’s resolution to win the lottery in the upcoming year and it requires you to buy more tickets, you might develop a gambling problem. There are many people that have gambling addictions and these addictions are quite easy to develop. And, once a gambling addiction develops, it might be very difficult to resolve. There are certain signs of a gambling addiction, so watch for them. One of the signs could include lying. Do you lie to your family and friends about how much you spend on lottery tickets? If so, you may be developing an addiction. Another sign might be that you play the lottery merely just to win back the money that you already lost. If you are doing this, you may be addicted. Of course, these are just a couple of the signs of an addiction.
So, having a new year’s resolution to win the lottery is perfectly fine, as long as you don’t end up spending more than you should on lottery tickets. So, good luck to you and I hope you win the lottery in 2010 (Or 2011, or 2012, for that matter!).
