All lottery participants dream of winning the jackpots in the games they join. They expect to have the best luck to change their lives and they have so many plans to do with the winnings. Living as a millionaire is certainly something people cannot resist. However, they need to prepare themselves to keep on being clearheaded as the winning can lead them to disasters instead. There have been stories that lottery winners, due to their carelessness, end up in bankruptcy and unhappiness. If you don’t want to experience this, you might as well look at one of the wise lottery winners in history.

Eddie Nabors, a truck driver from Dalton, Georgia, who shared the largest Mega Millions jackpot of $390 million in 2007, did not have any feelings that he would be so lucky. When he was having his weekly coffee at a Dalton shop, he decided to buy lottery tickets of $10 worth using the quick picks. One of his tickets had the numbers of 16-22-29-39-42 and he was not dreaming of winning it although of course he still had the hope. The jackpot reached $355 million and fortunately for him that all the six numbers in one of his tickets matched the winning numbers. He was so lucky because to win it, he only had the chance of 1 in 176 million. He did not realize that he had won until his co-workers told him about the winning ticket from Dalton. He then shared such huge jackpot that had risen to an amount of $390 million. He took the lump sum option of winning and scooped about $80 million after paying taxes.

This 52 year old Nabor seemed to have learned a lot from other winners’ success and failure stories. He decided not to be overwhelmed by the situation since he knew that he could just fall like many other unlucky winners who could not adjust to millionaire life style that lead them to bad habits such as drugs, paranoia and also isolation. He was in the modest condition of living with his mother and he also has 3 children and also six grand children. Her daughter had to live in a mobile home so Nabors decided to buy her a house. He also paid off mortgages for all his family, his mother, sister and others and bought his son a boat for fishing.

You may think of what he decided to buy himself. Instead of buying fancy cars or going on expensive travels, he thought of something very simple, he wanted to go fishing which is his favorite activity in his free time. He said that he was thinking of asking his son to go fishing together. He also decided to quit from his job, yet it is unquestionable. With his new found wealth, he certainly did not need to work very hard as a truck driver.

A lot of things you can learn from his story. You can be one of the luckiest people in winning lottery because everyone has the same chance of winning. You just need to be prepared to avoid problems that have made those who had been initially-lucky lottery winners to be even the unluckiest people. Remember to keep on being low-profile and don’t waste your money. Do not easily buy things that you don’t really need. Think of investing it and donating some of your money for charities. You don’t earn the money so think that many other people deserve the shares including your families and friends. If you can keep on being wise with the money, you can be ensured that you will just survive in the long run