Becomming a Winner

[JennaBoBenna]

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[Crazy Healer Lady]

I have awesome luck. In fact, my favourite radio station put a ban on me because I kept winning everything!

It's all about intention. Seriously. Find your intention, state it, and feel it. It takes some time to overcome your mental blocks. Energetically, it's aligning your hara.

Just keep at it :) and look within yourself to see if there are any sub/unconscious barriers to achieving this.

[Revvell]

My friend, you are already a winner! For me, winning the kind of stuff you mention is frosting on the cake for the rest of my wins.

Here's a suggestion:
Write down I'm a winner because ~ then finish the sentence with 10 or more endings. I'll start with a few of mine ~

I'm a winner because:

1) I get up under my own power every day
2) I've met so many wonderful people here on RFT
3) I get to create income doing what I enjoy
4) I "know" YOU!
5) I have fresh food every day when many have hardly any food at all (.. there but for the grace...)
6) I get to choose how I want my life to be
7) I've got a loving, supportive man in my life
8) I've got a warm house
9) I got to get up at 4 this morning, take care of biz, then go back to bed at 7 and get up again after 10 a.m.
10) I'm alive

I AM a winner!

Love and hugs to you,

Revvell

[Veganforlife]

Oh JennaBB - You ARE a winner in my book. I've taken what Revvell has written and tweaked it a bit, same idea though...

Jenna is a winner because...

she is living her life healthy.

she is learning each day.

she is a fine example for young women to follow.

she is proud of who she is.

she is someone whom her family can be proud of.

she is an intelligent young woman.

she is a believer in the Universe and all it has to offer.

she is a regular here on RFT.

she is someone I LIKE!!! :D:D:D

[MelissaO]

Ahh dont feel down hun.

I don't have much luck either - I once won a jar of jelly beans in grammer school because my guess was the closest number to what was in the jar, then I got the chicken pox. Never wanted to win anything after that!

Anyways I think you are a winner in the most important wins of all:

Life and health.

I know personally I do not know you but looking at your pictures you look so happy in your life. You look healthy and happy - even your pets look so happy to be with you. You could never win any of those things in any type of drawing.:D

[shine72]

I'd like to add to what the others posted here. There's another side to all of this, for me anyway.

Have you ever tried feeling over-the-moon happy for the people who DID win? I mean, sure, you didn't win (and there have been times I really wanted to and I didn't either). But, I let go of the wanting to win. I set my intention to be over-the-moon happy for whoever DID win, and no matter WHO won (even if I knew the person and didn't particulary care for them). Since that time, I have won MANY things! Just two nights ago there was a drawing on Raw Fu for Christmas gifts. There were some wonderful things. And each person that won, I was SO happy for. Then a BEAUTIFUL necklace came up. I said, "I SO want that necklace!" and then I LET GO of caring if I got it or not. Less than 30 seconds later, my name was called. For me, I think it was more because I let it go and knew I would be happy no matter who won it. And I would've been over the moon happy for everybody even if I didn't have my name drawn for anything. Getting my name drawn was bonus, icing on the cake, in a life that is already pretty snazzy (and if you saw what obstacles I've been having placed in my path in recent months, you'd think I was crazy to be saying that). Point is, my life is snazzy. Wanna know why? Because I SAY it is! My circumstances don't get to determine that. Only I do.

Hope this can help you in some way Jenna. If it helps you to know, I have ALWAYS thought you're a winner. I have always thought you have a pretty amazing life! And I still think you do. :D

[Crazy Healer Lady]

Shine72, beautiful message!!!

Beautiful messages from everyone else as well. Couldn't have said it better!

[RawHeaven]

Jenna, I ditto what everyone says above. You are already a winner.

I have been pretty blessed throughout my life. I think because I have a very active imagination. :p I think it was CHL who said it's all about your intention. See it and believe it. I also love what Shine has said about believing and letting go. SO TRUE!

I wanted to create more financial prosperity in my life during the summer and I began visualizing myself sitting on top of a huge mountain of cash and surrounded by it. Well I usually only find nickels and dimes and pennies on the street. But a few weeks after practicing this I found rolled up bills on the ground ($60) and on a separate occasion I found a $5 bill. That was exciting actually finding dollar bills. lol. I knew it was because I asked for it and let it go.

I do understand what you've said Jenna about understanding all of this and feeling blocked anyway. I used to have blocks around this myself. You have to BELIEVE with every fiber of your being that you deserve to have everything you want. It's your emotion that drives this process. You have to really FEEL it and feel happy about it as you're imagining whatever it is you want. CREATE IN JOY. That's the key. It's that simple. Release all of the thoughts that there is a curse or your doomed to follow some family bad luck when it comes to material possessions. Phooey. Just keep believing and seeing it and whatever you want will manifest.

I'm big on vision boards. I just created one as I moved back to the city. Almost sort of as a joke to myself I put a pic of a hunky guy on the board and labeled it romance and put some other things I wanted. Would you believe that 2 days after I got settled, a guy that looked exactly like the one on my board asked me out to dinner? It was spooky and it took me about a day to realize why he looked so familiar. LOL.

Try creating a vision board if you haven't already. It's a fun way to create and as you gaze at the board magic is already happening. I love them. It's a good way to recycle old magazines and play with your inner child too. :D

You are a winner Jenna. Believe it!

[rawstrength]

Giving is recieving
One of my goals this year was to eat the best organic raw vegan food, for free. It didn't happen until I started giving lots of organic raw vegan food away to my friends (stuff they were sure to like, such as fruits, dates and nuts). Now I get absurd amounts of cheap and free food all the time :) . I just thought I'd put this out there, I'm not sure how you could work giving into your situation. Maybe raffle off one of your posessions?

[rawlight]

Any thoughts?

I think showing complete strangers your poetry is an incredible win. Poetry is so deep and intimate and can really show the heart of a person. I hope you gave yourself credit for taking this risk?!!

The thing about the arts is the viewer/hearer/reader likes or dislikes something based on their own opinion. It is so hard to break in, because you have to really be able to deal with this kind of bias. Most likely the judges of this contest had a specific vision of what they were looking for. That happens at acting auditions and music demos. It's not always or even usually that someone is 'bad' they are just not what the director etc has in mind.

If you really like writing poetry, and believe this poem is good, I hope you won't let this experience deter you from trying other contests. I hope you will continue to put yourself out there and believe in yourself.

[juliebove]

My friend (he is no longer with us) used to win stuff all the time. His secret? He entered every contest he could find. Even if he didn't want the prize. He found out about some of the contests from some magazine that his aunt subsribed to. I don't remember the name or even know if it is still around.

I guess I've won my share of stuff over the years. Not so much with lottery or scratch tickets, but I've won small amounts. Won $50 on pulltabs, twice. And I don't buy a lot of them either. Won a birthday party when I was (I think) 8. Won a black and white TV (this was many years ago) at a company picnic. Won small prizes at bingo many times and small sums of money. Won a poetry contest (prize was a T Shirt). The most recent prize was $500 worth of MAC cosmetics. That was a weird one. I just had a feeling I was going to win it. I didn't really even want that stuff for myself, but I had an overwhelming feeling to buy tickets for it. My daughter's dance studio has a yearly show for their dance team and they sell raffle tickets for various gift baskets and things and the money collected helps pay for things they do throughout the year. I was very happy to get the stuff though because my friend had recently moved and lost all of her daughter's makeup for recital. I was able to give her all of the things she needed, plus I had some things to send to my MIL for her birthday and a found a new perfume that I liked. And I have won countless things from claw machines.

My daughter recently won a huge amount of food from a local health food store.

Sometimes I do not know I will win. The poetry contest was a weird one. I got an e-mail just before midnight one night from my dad. Told me I should enter it. It was an online contest. I went to the website, quickly wrote something off the top of my head, submitted it and got an e-mail the next morning that I had won! This was a daily contest.

Sometimes I think it is all in the timing. My poem was submitted just minutes before the deadline that day. Could be that mine was just the most recent one that they read.

In the case of the MAC makeup, I did put most of my raffle tickets in that box because I really had no use for the other stuff. I actually didn't know that I would have a use for the makeup, since I don't wear a lot of makeup personally and as it turns out was allergic to much of what I'd won. But I knew there was a reason for me to enter that particular one because I had a nagging feeling to do it.

With the claw machines, I never used to win. Not at all. Then I tried one at the Navy base here and the claw was not loose like it is in most of them. It was easy to win stuff. But I never did get the fat red bird I really wanted. I don't think anyone could because of the way it was weighted. Since then I have felt more confident when playing the machine. Once (after watching "The Secret" video) I told my daughter I was going to win a certain dog that was in the machine. She didn't think I would because it was buried. Then the strangest thing happened. I just kept thinking I would win. Put in my money. Watched the claw drop, get nothing, then sort of shake violently, then plunge deep into the toy pile and grab the very dog I said I would win.

When my daughter won the food recently, I just knew she was going to win something then. She also won several free dinners at a restaurant that is no longer in business. I know how she won those though. We are friends with the person who was in charge of the contest each month and she said she always chose her.

Sometimes I just "know" things. I have been driving along, then the urge to turn off the road will occur. I know then that I have made the right choice to do so when I see a car lose control or suddenly make a lane change just after I leave the spot.

Other times I just know I will win something. I don't enter a lot of contests either. Just sporadically.

I don't think everyone is good at winning things. For many years, my mom won jackpots whenever she went to Reno or Vegas. I never won one, although I did once win $50 on a nickel slot. I don't much like to gamble. I once went to a casino with my parents and they gave me $50 to gamble with. I didn't want the money, telling them that it would soon be gone and I wouldn't win a thing. That time I just knew I *wasn't* going to win and I should save my money. But they really pressed me to try the slots. And sure enough, about 10 minutes later, all of the money was gone. I didn't even have one slight streak of luck while playing those machines. It wasn't good.

The way I see it, everyone is good at something, or some things. And not good at others. Some people just have more luck when it comes to winning.

[juliebove]

Giving is recieving
One of my goals this year was to eat the best organic raw vegan food, for free. It didn't happen until I started giving lots of organic raw vegan food away to my friends (stuff they were sure to like, such as fruits, dates and nuts). Now I get absurd amounts of cheap and free food all the time :) . I just thought I'd put this out there, I'm not sure how you could work giving into your situation. Maybe raffle off one of your posessions?


Many years ago, I used to get money in the mail. Of course there were surveys attached. I suppose I could have kept the money and thrown the surveys away, but filling them out was no big deal to me. They would take about 5 minutes. Maybe 10 at the most. And I'd get a dollar each time. In those days a dollar was worth a lot more than it is now. I think the minimum wage was something like $3 an hour, if that.

Oddly the money would always arrive when I was broke. Sometimes I would get several dollars in one week.

[JennaBoBenna]

Thanks for all of the feedback, everyone! I suppose I just wanted so badly to win...oh well! Someone else won and that's okay :)
You all have definitely made me feel better and more like a winner :) Thank you thank you thank you!

[mongodelight]

Hey guys, (and Revvell ;) )

I've never really been "lucky" with situations with a prize. Like, ticket scratchers, raffles, winning contests, getting the part I want in a play, etc. I just entered a contest with a piece of poetry that I thought for sure was going to win. It was very beautiful and my boyfriend even said he liked it a lot. I didn't even place in the top 15 for this contest out of about 150 different medium entries(some were art, stories, makeup..). I feel like I never win. I never win random drawings, (I also entered several other contests these past few weeks that were random drawings). It's making me feel a little down. I try to be positive about imagine myself winning and feeling great, but in the end, someone else wins. I feel like I really deserve to win, wholeheartedly, but I just never do!


Any thoughts?

Winners are not born they re made. Some of the biggest winners failed years or decades...and when they finally succeed. But when they finally succeed their success is so big that all achievements of avarage people looks like nothing. Find a place where u can win some day. And when never give up untill u re good enough to win. That place has to be a place where u feel great. For me its buisness and investing. I am just starting out as a small looser but that doesnt matter. If u dont give up no matter what happens because you like what u re doing and where u want to be - when some day u will succeed.

But before that there is maybe a long road of failures. Dont let failure hold u back. Failure is a good thing it will turn into a big strength when u re ready to learn the lesson.

There is nothing bad about loosing, its just about the way you take it.

[freshlight]

Jenna, you are a winner!
Each of us is a winner if he decides to be one. I don't like any contests,-they don't make any sense to me because they create the nonexisting "losers", which is just nonesense imho.
Enjoy your radiant success! :D

[jacsam]

Enter some things you have grown or made into your county fair!