In your heart, you know you are going to win a lotto jackpot eventually. Or else why do you buy lottery tickets? Here is some advice for your head and heart while you get ready to win.

Don't make promises you don't intend to keep. It really is easy to tell someone: "If I won the lottery, I would pay off your mortgage" or "When I win the online lottery, I will buy you a new car" Such statements, even meant as sympathy for another's plight, can come back to haunt you. You might forget you said it. Yet whenever you do win the lottery, that person to whom you uttered your promise will remember vividly and expect to collect their "due" And if you pay off the mortgage or buy that car, it does not mean as much if it had not been "expected" or "promised"

Do not trust someone to hold your lottery tickets ahead of the drawing. When large sums of cash are involved, it's surprising how a long-standing friendship or family tie can become meaningless.