Win the Lottery by Playing Clever

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All lotteries are games of chance, and as such there is nothing that a player can do to change the actual odds of winning. However, there are things that players can do as an individual to help improve their chances of winning a lottery prize.

Win the Lottery by Playing Clever

Different lottery games offer different odds of winning and the odds are generally dependent on the quantity of numbers that need to be selected by the player and the quantity of numbers in play overall. For example, the EuroMillions game requires players to select 5 numbers from 1 to 50 and 2 numbers from 1 to 9, so the odds of matching all seven selections are 1 in 76,275,360. The UK Lotto game, on the other hand, requires players to select 6 numbers from 1 to 49, so the odds of matching all six are 1 in 13,983,816. Being selective about which lottery games to play allows participants to concentrate on the games that give them the best odds of winning.

Having selected a lottery game that gives you the best chances of winning, the next best thing you can do to improve your chances is buy more tickets. If you have a 1 in 13,983,816 chance of winning the UK Lotto game with a single ticket, you could give yourself ten times as many chances by playing ten tickets. Some players prefer to enter fewer draws and play more tickets than to enter every draw with fewer tickets.

However, if you can't afford to spend a lot of money on multiple lottery tickets, or you simply don't want to spend more you can also improve your chances by joining a lottery syndicate. This is basically a group of players who each invest a small amount of money and buy tickets as a collective. Subsequently, any prize that is won by any of the tickets is then shared between the lottery syndicate members. Many workplaces and social clubs run a lottery syndicate, but if you don't have access to one you could start your own.

Although there is absolutely no scientific evidence to suggest that thinking positive will help you to win the lottery, many jackpot winners have claimed that their positive thoughts played at least some role in their success, so it certainly wouldn't hurt to give it a go. Try imagining yourself winning on a daily basis and - who knows - your vision just might become a reality!

There is no technique that can absolutely guarantee you a lottery win - apart from buying every possible combination of numbers - but playing clever can certainly help improve your chances of winning.

Disclaimer: Matthew Pressman writes for a wide variety of commercial clients. This article is intended for information purposes only and readers should seek additional information before taking any actions based on its content.

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A Short Guide For the Gay Visitor to Athens on a Winter Weekend Break

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A Winter Weekend in Athens Greece

A Short Guide For the Gay Visitor to Athens on a Winter Weekend Break

Some suggestions of where to go and what to do during a short 'city break' in Athens. A series of three articles to help you make the most of your stay.

Part 2 - Eating out, another gay bar, museums and their opening hours.

Having arrived back in Monastiraki it was time to join everyone else at one of the many cafes, which line the street beside the suburban railway line. This may sound odd, but as the line is 'sunk' below street level and there are fewer trains on Sunday, it is actually very pleasant particularly on a sunny day when during the afternoon the sun shines directly on you.

This is a place 'to see and be seen' as every man and a few dogs are here sitting somewhere or another. For a change the cafes are so busy they do not approach you to come in, it is more a case of find a space and sit before someone else takes it! Here you will find illegal street traders whose stall is a white sheet, which can be lifted, goods and all, and taken away before the local police move them on or fine them.

You will be serenaded by small children playing the bouzouki or accordion with varying degrees of failure, you will have gypsy flower sellers palming you off with roses that last for about two hours, and lottery ticket sellers trying to sell you tickets!

If you are really lucky you will get a cup of coffee within a few minutes, but you will have to wait an hour to try and pay!

I take my coffee at leisure, an hour and a half, and then decide to head back to the Agora to take some more pictures as background and decoration for a web site I am designing. At the Temple of Haphaestos I am accosted by two ladies from Sapporo in Japan. They are on a European Tour and have managed most of the UK and Italy but need directions to the Temple of Olympian Zeus. They have chosen me because I look as though I can speak an English that they will understand. We chat for a while and I explain that it is easier to walk around the Acropolis than climb up it again and then down the other side. They also want to look at the stadium. 'Is it old?' 'Yes 1936 for the Olympics (I think)'.

Finally I return to base for a well earned afternoon nap ready for the rigours of the evening!

Finding a restaurant in the middle of Athens should be easy, in fact there are dozens around the Psirri/Monastiraki area, but this article is supposed to help you so I will send you to Mitropoleos Street, which starts at the square opposite Monastiraki station and heads towards Platia Syntagma. At present the square is surrounded by corrugated iron fence so find the Everest cafe on Ermou and take the alleyway beside it. The first place you come to is good and normally has tables on the other side of the alley, or continue round the corner in Mitropoleos where you will find about ten restaurants! In summer this street is full of tables serving mainly tourists in the early evening and Greeks later on. In January there are still tables outside but you want to be warm and cosy don't you? Most of these places are 'souvlaki' shops selling mainly skewered meats cooked on the barbecue, other are 'gyros' shops which is a similar idea but the meat is in bulk cooked vertically. All have other items on the menu if you ask to see it, but don't expect them to have everything, particularly things like 'moussaka'!

After a little wander up and down I selected 'Sabbas' as my eating place on this particular Sunday night, mainly because I happened to notice, on the way past, that one of the grill chefs had the most beautiful eyes. (OK if you can think of a better way of choosing a restaurant then let me know). Having ordered chicken souvlaki, with tzatziki to start and a quarter litre of house plonk, I proceeded to knock the ashtray off the table and spill a drink on the table behind me as I took my coat off. There is nothing like making an impression! At first glance the price looks expensive as the souvlaki is €9. So in total my meal is going to cost just over €14, but consider this, if there had been two of me and we had ordered a bowl of salad as well then the two of us could have eaten for €17 all up (well maybe €20 because we would have needed more wine!). As it was there was so much chicken on the souvlaki I had a problem eating it all, I found out afterwards that it was meant to be shared between two. Further up the street you can get a chicken or pork 'gyros' in pitta bread with a salad for €6.50 and you will get enough to eat!

Taking my time and writing up my notes for the day took two hours and nobody glares at you for taking the table for so long! By now it is gone 10pm so I decide it is time to investigate another gay bar, this time 'The Big Bar' which is supposed to be a 'bear bar'. One of the great things about this area is that you can walk places!

The 'Big Bar' is located beyond Gazi, which is home to many nightclubs including several gay ones. Personally many of these are not to my taste, the crowd tends to be too young and clucky, the drinks are often expensive, and the music is very often Greek 'popular' which is not me either! Having said that if you have the time then by all means go and try one or more, I am only trying to send you somewhere 'reliable' after all.

Big Bar is located in a side street just over the railway lines as you head out of the city on Iera Street, (on the way out you pass two very fancy nightclubs, one of which asks you to wear a tie, that's me off the guest list then). I arrive after about 25 minutes (time for the food to settle) walk, shortly after it opens. It is empty, but I realize this is still early and anyway it gives me time to chat to the owner, Christos. One of the best things about smaller bars is you get information and in this case a free beer as well. Christos is interested in the fact that I live on Crete, and tells me what the Cretan men are like (I already know), apologizes for the price of the beer which is €5 a bottle (not really that bad considering I have just come from the UK where they charge €9 for the same thing), and tells me how expensive Greek taxes are. I get a slight suspicion that maybe he would prefer to live somewhere other than Athens, but then many Athenians seem slightly jealous of us 'islanders' and one of the main topics of conversation in Athens is whether Crete will split away from Greece. This seems a bit odd as it is barely 100 years since Crete became part of Greece, but then they point out that Crete is 'rich' with agriculture and tourism and maybe it could survive on its own.

But back to the Big Bar, Christos tells me that the busy nights are Friday and Saturday when they play rock music, and that Tuesday night is Greek music night and he reels off a list of Greek singers many of whom are pop singers from the 1980's. The place is closed on Monday as are many other places in Athens.

Atmosphere-wise the Big Bar is a comfortable mix of wood grain, dark colors and vinyl with a big screen for showing pop video clips and a glitter ball (a little unexpected for a Bear bar but actually quite a nice feature and it does add a bit of glitz). All in it is quite 'cosy and cuddly' just as you would expect a bear's lair to be! It is not a big place about six people can sit at the bar with ease, which of course makes it a friendly place to be. By the time I leave at 12.30am there are a few more customers including a chatty couple (one Greek the other American I think) at the bar who know Brighton!

Monday is museum day and come hell or high water I am going to get to see the National Archaeological Museum!

One thing you get used to in Greece is wrong information for opening times and the museum is no exception, everything says that it opens at 10.30am on Mondays. It doesn't, it opens at 1.00pm. Being optimistic I arrive there at midday. Not a problem there is a nice cafe in the forecourt complete with gas patio heaters. The tactile strip on the paving to help the partially sighted runs straight through the middle of the cafe, just to make life even easier at one end are swing doors and the other end sliding doors! Only in Greece. The large Greek coffee comes with a glass of water of course, and also a small dish of cherry 'spoon sweet', two small croissants, and a couple of small almond biscuits. All for €4!

The number of exhibits in the museum seems much smaller than it did in 1969 when I was last here and I think that maybe during the refurbishment in 2001/2003 they have deliberately gone for quality rather than quantity. The museum is well laid out and is not so big that you can get bored if you are not that interested in Greek history. I am there for some hours! Those of us who are advancing in years (22 in my case) with not so good eyesight, always have a problem in museums and this one is no exception. The cards they use for the printed text use a 'serif' typeface a couple of points too small to be easily read and even if you have varifocals, the angle of the card at the bottom of the case is such that you end up on your knees (a not unknown position), so that you can see through the reading bit of your lenses. The gold leaf work and jewellery I think are the best exhibits.

So what happens on Mondays? Well that will be covered in Part 3, in the meantime you will find a few photographs on my web site at http://www.villaralfa.com/athens.html

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Time Management for Writers - Controlling Time, Without the Sci-Fi

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OK, so if I actually knew how to control time, I wouldn't be doing this; I would be off getting a note of next week's lottery numbers. We can, however, look at how to better manage the time available to us. It occurred to me that one of the blockers for many people getting into writing or trying to finish a text is finding time to do it, especially amateur writers trying to fit writing into an already hectic life. So why not take some basic pointers from the world of business and apply them to your home life and your writing?

Time Management for Writers - Controlling Time, Without the Sci-Fi

This is based upon a short tips article I wrote a while back on Helium.com that I've expanded further and tried to apply to the writing discipline. There are lots of ways you can try and manage your time better and many people will tell you alternative ways but I have stuck to six ways to help manage your time and be more efficient that I have always found work for me.

1. Divide your day into time slots if possible and allocate slots to activities.

Look at all of the broad activities or types of activity that you need to do on a daily basis. Allocate time slots to each activity and keep to it. From a writer's perspective, decide when in the day you want to do your writing. Try and ensure that everything else you have to do can be done outside of this time and leave the slot free to get on with your writing. If, like me, you're not a professional writer, you'll most likely have to approach this the other way around by identifying when in the day you could reasonably expect to be able to write and then plan all of the other activities to ensure you don't encroach on this part of the day.

2. Always keep a list of your 'things to do' - when you get each one done, cross it off the list and remember to keep adding the new tasks as they come up.

From the writer's point of view, this is much more about making sure that the non-writing things don't blindside on a lazy Sunday afternoon when you were about to get started on an important article. You should, however, be similarly organized in the practical or administrative tasks that relate to your writing. By being methodical in the small tasks that you need to do, you will find you can clear them a lot more quickly and, if things are written down, you can avoid too many unpleasant memory-related surprises.

3. Most people feel productive at certain times of the day and less productive at other times. Try and figure out which times of the day suit you best and work with it.

Have a look at the Where, When and How to Write section of freewritingadvice.com for some more information on identifying your productive periods, as this will influence what work you do at what times of the day. Knowing your productive periods in the day helps enormously with point 1 - dividing your day into time slots.

4. Be methodical wherever possible. Don't go off on flights of fancy.

Make sure that there is a reason and a benefit to what you are doing, otherwise you may just be adding to your unproductive time - do the important stuff. It's all too easy to find something that you'd like to do rather than what you need to do. If you avoid being sidetracked from your planned workload, you can be more effective in the long term and you will get time to do the things you want without feeling guilty about it.

5. Understand the difference between urgent and important!

This can be quite difficult. The temptation is to see everything that's urgent as important, because it's urgent. By making the distinction, you can concentrate mainly on what's important and you will start to see that maybe some of the urgent stuff isn't just as important as you might have thought. Ruthlessly prioritize the things you need to do, so that the time slot you allocated (remember point 1?) is effective and hits the important stuff. Things that are important and urgent will obviously be at the top of your list and you can clearly see what needs to be done first.

6. Wherever possible - delegate! This allows you to focus on a few tasks being done properly rather than a multitude of tasks being half done.

Yes, this is hard, if not almost impossible to do at home, but if you can get some assistance with the mundane to make time for your writing; try and do so. Maybe you want to trade help with someone to allow them to allocate a part of their day similarly to whatever it is they want to do. You help them, they help you - it just might work!

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Lotto Easy Money - Reason For Shift

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Reasoning prevents us from committing many errors. When one considers the possible ways of acting in a problematical situation, each idea of action is usually accompanied by certain ideas of the consequences of the action. When these latter ideas represent unfavorable consequences, the act which has been thought of, is not likely to get into operation. by virtue of the process of reasoning, we are able to prepare for situations which have not yet arisen. If we have already concluded in thought that this problem would arise, and if we have already reasoned out the best way of meeting it, the appearance of the problem itself does not force us into a thoughtless, impulsive decision.

Lotto Easy Money - Reason For Shift

Not all ideation process is reasoning. Let us to take, for example, day-dreaming. Day-dreaming is, in a way, problem-solving through the use of ideas. The poor man constructs out ideas about a world in which he has plenty of money. The naive lotto player constructs out ideas about the first thing he will do after he will win a fat lotto jackpot. Give him an advice what firstly he needs to learn, how knowing to win the lottery will help him, and he will laugh of you. Give him an advice how it will be a favorable situation for him if he will win every month about 00, and he will smile thinking that you do not know about what you talk. 00 a month is not enough for his fantasy. In his day-dreaming composition he already built many air castles.

Lotto may offer an easy money for who knows to win. And who knows how to win has a plan how to win frequently. When you win frequently, you know that these will be different sums of money until you will gain enough experience to win eventually a jackpot. A lotto winner is a reasonable, prudent and practical personality. On the other hand, lotto is both the precise known events that were and the precise events that will come into being by necessity and not in accordance with fate and fantasies. There is a very fundamental relation between learning this system and winner position development. Only a person like this can hope to win a jackpot.

The ability to know the lotto numbers features,, reasoning every action, judging, problem-solving, acquiring and organizing information, all these are aspects of a winner. Any previous information about your lotto system will serve you for better and rapid predictions. This is a very good reason to shift from an old inefficient style of playing lotto to one that helps you to make easy money.

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