Do you know what’s true about the lottery?

If you don’t play, you can’t win.

I know this sounds like I’m stating the obvious. But the reason I’m stating the obvious is that the same can be said about life.

If you don’t engage, participate, or play in life, then you can’t win.

The most significant difference between playing to win the lottery and winning in life is that the lottery has the same prize for everyone. In contrast, life’s rewards are different for each player.

Winning in life doesn’t necessarily mean medals, trophies, or even monetary gains. Although it could. Winning in life is more about how you feel.

Winning in life for you could be accomplishing goals, maintaining healthy relationships, helping other people, or any different number of things. You get to choose what makes you feel like a winner.

Feeling like a winner is all about you expressing your potential. It’s about you tapping into that part of you that only you know exists and is waiting to manifest from possibility to reality.

Here’s a great quote known as Man in the Arena by Theodore Roosevelt that encapsulates the idea of playing at life.

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

So, ask yourself today if you’re playing at life or watching it go by. If you’re pursuing the things you want or selling yourself short. Remind yourself that life is like the lottery. If you don’t play, you can’t win.

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