Reckon that a Lottery win is the most surefire way to become a millionaire? Think again. You have 1 in 3 million chance of becoming a millionaire in your lifetime, yet only a 1 in 14 million chance of winning the Lottery. This means that pretty much every other route to fortune - old fashioned stuff like using our talents and intelligence and education - are more likely to yield millions than picking out Lottery numbers every week. Indeed, add up the amount of time we spend scratching our heads and trying to figure out which six numbers to choose, and in the same time we could have earned ourselves a tidy pension through writing music, penning novels or founding a start-up internet business. The moral? While the Lottery is harmless good fun and gives us all a bit of much-needed hope, don't sit around and wait for it to make you a millionaire. You have talent; use it. You have skills; make them pay bills.
