Powerball Lottery and New Year Resolutions

Are you playing a game you don’t expect to win?

Hope is powerful! You need hope to keep going when the going gets tough.

Hope is that flicker of belief that things can get better . . . that things might get better. Even cranky pessimists have at least a little spark of hope, no matter how they try to hide it.

But hope won’t help you change.

Don’t get me wrong! You and I need hope. But hope is focused on something “out there” to happen to make everything better.

Hope is playing the lottery. You don’t expect to win, but you know there’s a chance.

What most of us do with New Year Resolutions is no different. We invest very little and hope for massive returns.
This kind of hope is like waiting for a miracle.

I believe in miracles.

I’ve seen miracles happen. God will sometimes step in and act for our benefit.

But I can tell you from experience that more often than not God is waiting for us to get off our ass and do something.

My choices determine the life I get.

I put up with a mediocre life for years hoping for a miracle. I’d set goals and only put in a minimal effort. I was waiting for divine lightning to strike and make me healthy, wealthy, and wise.

I finally figured out that God gave me the ability and responsibility to choose what I get in this life.

I wrote about how I changed in my previous post.

Feeling like you “should.”

Turning the page of the calendar into a new year and decade makes us feel almost obligated to make some changes in our life.

Add to this the peer pressure that comes from “everyone making resolutions,” and we tend to make Resolutions about minor quirks or annoying habits that don’t matter all that much.

So we make Resolutions with a handful of hope and a dash of indifference.

Are your Resolutions keeping you from what you really want?

You won’t get rich from playing the lottery.

You won’t get the life you want by making Resolutions each year.

Decide to get what you want.

Any change starts with a decision.

If you’re like me, you want more from life than what you’ve got right now. I plan to keep growing and improving always.

So why not ditch the resolutions this year and decide to go after something you really want for your life?

It is possible to get what you want in life. It starts with deciding what you want and then going for it.

This could be your year . . . your decade. It’s never to late to start.

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