In the game of life, it’s important to play the odds. Maybe you’re born with a shitty hand, but that doesn’t mean you can’t work on improving your chances.
Casinos are rich for a reason. Despite the tiny edge the house has, they still make a killing thanks to volume.
And while your life shouldn’t be compared to how much people spend at blackjack tables, you should know that the tiny improvements you make over time could very well result in a vastly different life.
Sure, banking on that overnight success might be the dream, but which is more likely? Winning the lottery? Or getting that promotion by improving your craft?
Instant success may or may not happen your entire lifetime. But taking small steps towards improvement is very much achievable. In fact, you could do something to improve your life this very moment.
Stack enough of those moments together and you’ll effectively create your own luck. In other words, the habit of collecting small wins increases your chances of winning the lottery.
Even if you don’t, at least you’ll have the spoils of your small wins to fall back on. And I wouldn’t be surprised if those small improvements total up to be more than a lottery’s worth of winnings.
Your Friendly Malaysian Writer 
Am always learning a lot from you Stuart.
The little steps daily make a difference
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What a very good way of looking at things! I like this and shall use it, thanks Stuart.
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Hi Stuart, This is a good reminder. Every small step counts. If we put our mind and heart in what we want to pursue, something good will come out of it.
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Love this Stuart. I especially love the notion of controlling your own destiny rather than leaving success to chance. You’d be surprised how many people have “winning the lottery” as a retirement strategy. You’d be much further ahead to start putting a little money aside on a regular basis at an early age.
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Nice post
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This is great advice and I completely agree with what you’ve just said here :)
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Sound advice, Stuart. I’m digging this more frequent but shorter blog posting schedule. Despite the lack of goat blood here. ;)
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Hey Stuart! I was off traveling, which is why I disappeared from the blogosphere for a few weeks, but I’m back now.
It’s great advice. Too bad it’s so hard to follow – haha. Shouldn’t be, but it is.
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Recently, I stopped playing the lottery when my wife informed me that if we won, it wouldn’t change our lives at all. We would still live in our same house, still drive our pickup truck, and with the exception of my mom, would still not have any friends or family.
To make matters worse, I was reading that a lot of lottery winners in the US become targets, and far too many have ended up getting murdered in recent years. It’s a scary world out there, and it seems that people will do anything to fast-track themselves into wealth. And while this is fine, my wife and I are content with our lives the way they are, and have decided to let someone else play and possibly win.
My wife and I might not have much, but for us, it’s enough, and what we have means everything to us.
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Interesting. I think A.I. will kill my only skills. However, a limit pay be placed on A.I. in favor of humans. We have that essential chaos in our minds that allows us to have great imaginations as well as insanity. We are an insane species, but that’s what it took to survive on this dangerous and beautiful world. Plus, isn’t it true that every story has been told? We are always recreating the wheel and moving in the direction of our choices, are we not?
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I absolutely love this Stuart, and for two reasons.
First, recently I have been reassessing my to-do list, and a lot of my perfectionistic tendencies are a thing of the past. Things that had to be done every few days (to be “perfect”) are now done once a week, and that to-do list that used to sit at 100+ outstanding tasks now sits at 47. It’s still a chunk, but for me, it now feels possible.
Secondly, only last night I was sat on our living room floor and counting out the money in our savings jar. That sounds desperate but there is one key difference – this wasn’t about the money we have to spend, this was about the money we didn’t spend. It was about us selling things we no longer want and not spending that money straight away, or making smart decisions. Right now, when family and friends are bemoaning the cost of living crisis in the UK, I can’t tell you how satisfying it is to feel like we have “won the lottery”. We aren’t rich, but we are definitely economucally comfortable. I’ve just had a £200 refund on our energy bills too, and our monthly bill has been dropped by £35. All of that, along with not having anything else we want or need to buy, feels great.
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Nice analogy Stuart. And I couldn’t agree more. Small improvements over time can really add up. That’s the philosophy I live by. Thanks.
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I needed to hear this today. I was thinking earlier this week that I’m generally an unlucky person, but that doesn’t mean I can’t “stack my hand”. Thanks!
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