One day I bought an 8 year old child a comic book, and later they came to me and asked if they could enter a competition in the comic to win a big robot. They asked me to buy a post card and a stamp from the post office so they could answer the question, fill in their details then post it off.

And what did I say? I repeated what millions of people say to our young, nobody ever wins those competitions, we ain’t that lucky, and some are just a con to get you to buy the magazine. But this intelligent little boy persuaded me. He said there’s no harm in trying, it’s not that difficult or expensive to get a post card and a stamp from the post office close by.

He was right, it was in walking distance and cost next to nothing, so I bought them, helped him write it and took him to the post box. And as he posted it he said I haven’t wasted my time because he will win this robot.

I said negatively, yeah we will see, but don’t be disappointed if you don’t win. He answered, well I definitely wouldn’t win if I hadn’t entered. One week later there was a knock at the door and a huge parcel arrived! He had won the robot he dreamed of winning, the robot he knew without a shadow of a doubt he would win the moment he entered. And I almost denied him that win by trying to persuade him he was wasteing his time and my money. They even sent a pack of huge batteries along with it.

After that he won again, and again, and again, on many things. He won on raffle prizes and he also picked out my raffle tickets 4 times at 3 different venues, on 3 different nights. He got 2 winning raffle prizes for me at one venue. The first time he peeked in the bag to pick out a ticket and I won, so the compare said no peeking next time, as the audience laughed, then they gasped when he picked another number of mine, without looking…

He may have peeked in the bag the first time but he didn’t know what my numbers were anyway. Another night Bobby Ball was picking the raffle numbers out of a bag, and the top prize that night was a mobile phone. Another prize was Bobby’s book and I wanted to win his book, but this boy wanted the mobile phone, and of course my raffle number came up!

This sweet, generous little boy said, I’ll go and get your book for you… I said, no you won’t, you go up there and get your mobile phone. So he did.

And next my number came out again and I got my book, and I ended up getting my book because we had both been completely selfless, he was willing to give up the best, most expensive prize for a far cheaper book.

And I was not going to let him miss out on that great prize for a book I could buy anywhere at any time, where I could not afford to buy him a mobile phone. So the universe felt the genuine compassion and giving from each of us, so handed us both our wishes. We were not just lucky…

We expected to win, we never doubted the universe would deliver the prizes we set our hearts on, and so we created absolute miracles in every winning way possible, even with scratch card and lottery wins. Amazing!

So stop telling our young they can’t have everything they want, we must stop limiting their beliefs and expectations, as all adults limited ours. As we grew to be self limiting adults, teaching our own children all the things they can’t have, won’t have, shouldn’t have. Telling them everything is a con, the world is unsafe, unfreindly, times are hard and things are tough, there is no money available and we just aren’t that lucky. As the saying goes, as the wealthy business man would answer, I make my own luck.