My luck’s a changin’.
On October 22, Sean and I made our way to Las Vegas for two reasons – to celebrate his 33rd with a mini vacation and a romantic dinner for two at Roy’s, and so that I could attend the 2-day Chris Johnson Free Money University grant seminar.
I’ll first start off by saying that Vegas has never ever really been good to me.
I don’t gamble too much and when I do with the little bit of money I’ve set aside as “fun money,” I usually end up defeated with $1 in my wallet and extremely frustrated at myself for being suckered into giving my hard earned cash to the casino. It’s not enough to even get a small Wendy’s frosty in Yuma on our drive back to Phoenix. Oh yes, this has happened. And when it does, you just feel, well, down on your luck and crummy.
I’m not sure when it happened on this trip, but somehow my luck changed.
After losing three straight hands in Paigow Poker and feeling “defeated,” I was coaxed or shall I say invited, yes, that’s more pleasant, to come to the blackjack table by the dealer motioning, “Come on over,” to me. I sat down with $10 and after an hour or so of playing, I looked down to see my stack had grown to just about $200. I cashed out when Sean said, “Let’s play roulette. I want to put $10 on lucky #33.” I’ve never played roulette, but like most people who play this or the lottery, it really is a luck game. There’s no strategy really. Just pick the numbers you want and you’re off to the races. I picked the numbers that matter most – birthdays. Caleb’s 19 and my 15. Two spins and a 19 and 15 later, I was now holding $70! 35 to 1 odds.
I smiled all the way to the cashier’s station.
The next day I was at the grant seminar and was asked to fill out a registration form for the drawing – a cash prize followed by some trip giveaways. I filled it out like everyone around me, stuck it in the box and was done with it. After lunch, Chris shuffled the sheets around in his box (about 120 of them) and drew…you guessed it…MINE!
Seriously, what was happening here???
I “woohoo’d” my way to the front of the room, danced around on stage and was now holding a crisp $100 bill in my hand.
This is not me! I’m never ever lucky…ever. So for all of this to be happening, one crazy win after another, and even another win at blackjack the next night, I finally felt like my luck was changing. Not just at the casino tables since as I mentioned, I’m not a big gambler, but that my life’s luck was changing. There was no more, “How am I going to make ends meet?”, but “How am I going to use the tools I learned in this 2-day seminar and educate myself on changing my family’s financial outcome and future?” See, my mindset was shifting and just as it did, the world shifted with it. Chris Johnson had given us about 50 handouts and a huge list of links giving away “free money.”
Those that know me, or who have read my book, learned that I am not typically a woo-woo person. I don’t really believe in signs, but that weekend felt like one gigantic sign to me. And at 3:33am when I woke up to look at the clock in our hotel room and as I do at 11:11 and 2:22, I made a wish and went back to bed. Okay, I guess I am a little woo-woo.
Hey, a girl can wish, right?
On another note, I first wrote this blog while in Vegas when I couldn’t sleep the last night I was there, but never posted it. Today, November 2, I received an email from Heather Lopez who plans the Super Mom Entrepreneur Conference that I was being awarded a $500 grant + graphic design and photography services to use toward my “just off the ground” Mom-e Club. Ironic because I was just saying how I needed to do more research today on grants.
I tell you that whatever you want to call it, luck or faith, it’s working.
Has your luck changed? Comments welcome.
