The lottery is truly sad state of affairs.
You put your locus of control outside of yourself... and then you hope for luck, outside of yourself, to bring you a windfall.
The entire thing is self defeating, even if you win.

And all of the lottery winners are generally fatter and broker then when they won.

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#1 Have a mindset to succeed
This is very important, if you don't have it, work on getting it.

For me, succeeding was trained out of me by my narcissistic mother before the age of five. Sure, I can do things. Many things that most people can't, but anything that pushes my boundaries in "success" is met with terror.

Terror is not like fear, it usually has a part that is learned helplessness. It has to be untied, unwound, healed, before you have much success moving forward. (I really should have a post to link to on this. :-(

(For most people, it is just fear of being successful. Such as becoming a rich person, and it is more likely for a camel to go through the eye of the needle that it for a rich person to get into heaven. etc)

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And I hate compound interest charts. Because they never work. I know of no one that is making 8% ROI. The money in a savings account is always making a negative real rate of return. (because inflation, etc)

Everyone I know who is really making it, learns to create that $10 side hustle. Then, once you learned how to do that, you can make a $20 side hustle. And once you know how to make money, making money gets easy.

Most real money people are looking for 100% ROI.
And in reality, all you need to be wealthy is to spend less than you make. Then, you are always accumulating wealth. And this is where the side hustle usually makes all the difference.