Anticipation and Excitement

Will 2008 be a lottery-winning year for you? We are all hoping that we will achieve greater success in 2008 than we did in 2007, but perhaps an equally useful new year’s resolution would be to enjoy more lottery-based excitement in 2008 than we did in 2007. The latter goal, whilst not as lofty as the former one, is a lot more achievable.

The amount of excitement we get from participating in anything is, in my opinion, directly related to the amount of time we have to wait for the event to come around. New Year’s Eve parties tend to be more enjoyable than any other party we might attend simply because they only come along once a year. We therefore have a lot more time to anticipate taking part, and this extended anticipation is what helps us to generate a greater level of excitement.

The same principle applies to lotteries, and we can therefore make our experience of lottery participation more excitement by taking the anticipation factor into consideration.

In my opinion, the least exciting lottery games are those that involve the least amount of anticipation, such as scratchcards. To make these games a little more exciting, we can get into the habit of waiting an hour or even a day before scratching any ticket that we have purchased.

Lottery games such as Lotto and Euromillions can be made more exciting by purchasing tickets at the earliest possible opportunity. For example, we can buy a Lotto ticket for Saturday on the previous Sunday. The earlier we buy such tickets, the more time we will have to anticipate the draw, and the more excitement we will experience as a result.

A third idea is to make sure we get involved in games that only take place once or twice a year. For example, we could buy tickets for the 2008 El Gordo lottery draw as soon as they are made available. Since the draw doesn’t take place until 22 December, this approach will give us months of anticipation to enjoy.

Now some readers may argue that the more we anticipate a lottery game, the bigger the anti-climax could be if we don’t win, and I would agree with this. But aren’t all peak experiences followed by an anti-climax of some kind? Don’t many of us think “Was that it?” when we wake up on 26 December each year? And don’t many of us remember our last New Year’s Eve party with a slight sense of deflation? But will we still enjoy getting excited about Christmas and New Year’s Eve at the end of this year despite the anti-climax we know will follow? Of course we will, because anticipation and excitement go hand in hand, and we have a whole year to anticipate those things.

So, I wish all readers of this blog a Happy New Year. I wish you every success in landing some big lottery prizes. But most importantly, I wish you a greater sense of excitement as you learn to use the anticipation factor more deliberately in your lottery efforts.

Article Last Updated: 30/01/2008 16:28:42

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