If you don't choose to prepare for your circumstances to change, it's less likely the changes will evolve in the directions you would hope for.
This isn't only a question of preparing yourself mentally (i.e. I'll win a lottery), but its also a question of putting a detailed plan together to explain exactly what you would do with it. If you would build a foundation, where?when? with whom? why?
Imagine you were to approach a ventrue capitalist for the $5,000,000. You're proposal would have to be pretty convincing to win him over.
The point is, if you haven't yet convinced yourself of the possibility you could win the lottery, then you won't exert the effort to visualize and plan what to do when those positive circumstances arrive. Forget not buying the lottery ticket. One could fall from the sky and land in your lap. Assuming you won't win means you've already nipped the winning opportunity in the bud.
