How to Become a Winner

WINNER!, a photo by mrjoro on Flickr.

This is from MrJoro's flickr photo which I used and his experienced at Vegas: Read the following:

Vegas has become quite clever with their slot machines.

Most of the newer ones have little games you get to play if a "Bonus" or "Spin" item appears on the reels. It's such a rush when one of those appears, even though most of the time you only end up winning a few bucks off of it. But the rush is enough. Even after I'm up on a machine, I'll still keep playing until I get to play the extra game.

For me this started with "Wheel of Fortune," where you get to Spin. On our last few trips to Vegas we'd go into a new casino and then say "where are the Wheel of Fortune machines?" My sister Steph once won $250 on a spin, so we had some precedence of winning.

This time, it was Powerball. When a bonus ball appears, a fourth wheel in the machine spins. It contains red, white, and blue balls (and some balls that are all three colors). Depending on how those balls line up with a "Grand" "Super" and "Mega" line, you win one of the amounts shown. The amounts are progressive, so the longer someone goes without winning on a machine the more you can win.

On this Bonus spin, I got the tricolor ball on the Grand AND Super lines, so I won the six boxes, which was about $190. (I won the $118.26 as well, but the WINNER! boxes were alternating between the amounts you won and the WINNER! text.)

This all happened at the Mirage casino. The Mirage was the only casino that was good to me. Just before this, I'd won $20 big on the $1 Wheel of Fortune Slots, and later won $80 on some $2 slots. Overall for the trip I was down a couple hundred dollars though--which tells you just how bad I am at this gambling thing.

The thing is, the luck at the Mirage held out both days. The reason we came back here to gamble on our last night was because the night before I kept winning (though smaller amounts) at the Mirage, whereas I kept losing at the other casinos.

I was a little bit worried about returning to the Mirage. On my first trip to Vegas with Benson, we were losing a lot of money, but we found a card game machine at the Sahara that we seemingly couldn't lose at. The next day, when we were running out of the money we'd set aside to gamble, we had a grand plan to go back to that machine and keep winning. Of course, by then, the machine had changed into a money vacuum.

Majority of the Filipinos have nothing to say about Las Vegas, as what Mr.Joro story's all about. Instead, betting on "Lotto" and dreaming to win someday or nothing at all. The

The following guides to be a winner is only a part of yourself to accomplish those goals which you are aiming for. As a Filipino, I knew that it's very hard for other people to maintain their determination to become a winner on their chosen field.

The quest to be the best takes something from inside yourself to achieve, but that doesn’t mean you should rely only on yourself. Read the following list and incorporate these points on your motivational endeavors to become one.

1.Winners take chances. Like everyone else, they fear failing, but they refuse to let fear control them.

2.Winners don’t give up. When life gets rough, they hang in there until the going gets better.

3.Winners are flexible. They realize there’s more than one way and are willing to try others.

4.Winners know they are not perfect. They respect their weaknesses while making the most of their strengths

5.Winners fall but they don’t stay down. They stubbornly refuse to let a fall keep them from climbing.

6. Winners don’t blame fate for their failures nor luck for their successes.

7.Winners accept responsibility for their lives.

8.Winners are positive thinkers. They seek well in all things. Of the ordinary, they make the extraordinary.

9.Winners believe in the path they have chosen even when it’s hard, even when others can’t see where they’re going.

10.Winners are patient. They know a goal is only worthy of the effort that’s required to achieve it.

11.Winners are people like you, who make the world a better place to be.

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