Given the guides lessons, is it worth winning? You bet it is -- if you are prepared. Besides, the main, true, and unadvertised benefit of winning the lottery jackpot is not the money. Most Americans already earn over $1 million in their lifetimes. The greatest benefit of winning is the money plus your time. Winning gives you back the "time" part of your "life-time" so that you don't have to spend your life's time just to make the money. When you win, you can spend your time spending your money -- not as an end in itself, of course, but in pursuing something worthwhile.

So, play the ultimate what-if game: "What if I won the lottery? What would I do?" Take the answer to this question and dare to begin living that life today. Pursue what you do best and enjoy most. This activity gives you both a built-in competitive and psychological edge to success -- with or without the lottery -- and puts you on the true path to prosperity.