This strange piece of advice is actually entirely logical, because with a bit of straightforward planning, you can ensure that should any of your numbers actually come up, you have minimized chance that you will have to share prize with other people. In other words, avoid 'obvious' lottery selections, unless you want to share prize! By way, can you guess what most common lotto entry is? Yep, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. Hard to believe, isn't it?! While these numbers are as likely as any other 6 to come up, if they did, payout per ticket would be tiny, because so many people would be trying to claim a slice of pie!

So here are some tips to help you make sure that your selections are unique to your ticket, and thus any prize you win will be shared with less people.

* More than 2 consecutive numbers is a no no. For example, choosing 1,2,3 or 47,48,49 will mean you are 'in play' with THOUSANDS of other lottery hopefuls.

You wouldn’t build your home on anything less than a solid foundation. Similarly, you can’t build wealth and financial independence without first having sound foundational principles to build upon.

I have found that many people are working on wealth building strategies such as maximizing their 401K returns, aggressive stock trading, and real estate investing without such a foundation.

Most of my clients are coming from a “one step forward, two steps back” cycle of wealth building that gets them nowhere in long run.

There are steps you can take to make sure that you are maximizing and protecting your gains at same time. Without these steps, you are destined to experience gain-loss cycle which, in end, is like spinning your wheels in mud.

Discover how your employment circumstances affect your wealth building strategy and have more of things you want by identifying your biggest expense and managing it without having to make more money. Most people take gains in their cash flow to mean they can spend more on things they don’t need. It is human to want to surround yourself with things you want to match how you feel about your new income from investments or a raise at work.

But what happens here is that you lose future earning power and you rip out pieces of your wealth building foundation because you are not putting new income to work by investing in your debt.