How Lottery Winners Picked Their Winning Lotto Numbers: Part 2 | ABC News

chino hills' 7-eleven employee and Farooqi can expect to see an uptick in customers through those hip 4 burn glasses folks have a tendency to flock back to lucky stores like this where winning tickets were sold but this lottery winner says the secret to winning isn't in the store it's in your mind meet Cynthia Stafford in 2007 she was a single mom raising her deceased brothers kids when she won the California Mega Millions lottery you thought you'd win well I knew I would win Stafford says believing and visualizing yourself winning is the key part of the ask the universe philosophy popularized by the secret and similar books a few years back I'm an avid reader read a book called the power of your subconscious mind it isn't just hocus-pocus - you know I'm not into magic it's about your belief what you believe in strongly will manifest and does and Stafford says her belief was specific she says she visualized the exact amount of money she would win 112 million dollars what's the significance of a hundred and twelve you saw that number prior to winning I like the number 11 because I'm born in November so that's pretty much it and then just chills to - I try to consolidate the number to match my birthday that's basically what I was doing ah that birthday thing a crucial factor for a numerologist Glynis McCants what our lucky numbers they're numbers that are connected to your birthday and if you look at the people who win the lottery so often they tell you you know I played my birth embers I played my mom's birth tempers that took me sound an accident cuz numbers that are around you are considered lucky I don't think that your birthday has any effect on your chances of winning the lottery you can probably visualize the esteem math professor Aaron Abrams holds for the great science of numerology I'm open to hearing any theory that has some evidence behind it but usually people with theories like this don't any evidence find it but then there's the case of Jay Vargas who is just 19 when he won 35 million dollars in the South Carolina Powerball jackpot in 2008 he used some of those winnings to launch an all-girls wrestling group called resolution there's no redheads in the ring though you and I hear it no there's not a chance I can compete in that ring Jay's secret he claims he just started hearing numbers in his head it was a voice like any other wasn't my own or anyone that I recognized telling you numbers yeah the whole day and did you tell anyone about the numbers the cousin he was like man you that's probably lottery numbers so once I played the lottery once I put the numbers in the voice stopped so how long after you bought the ticket did you find out your winner uh that night you weren't surprised no cuz I knew I was gonna win it can't be surprised if you know you something's gonna happen you know my advice to everyone listening if you've got numbers that are talking to you get to the store and buy your ticket and visualize should you have to believe it's possible for it to happen Cynthia believed it to her core Stafford said she's donated more than a million dollars to charities but she also splurged how many thousands of dollars of handbags are we looking at about two hundred thousand two hundred thousand dollars in handbags yeah she gave us a tour of her house that she also visualized owning and I remember when I saw it I thought to myself this is gonna be my house it's decorated in lottery winner chic with pricey art how much was this painting oh I don't want to get into the prices of my painting but it was not cheap and interesting conversation pieces like this unusual gold chair this represents ancient Egypt and it represents royalty royalty yes outside her two Bentley's costing a mere four hundred thousand dollars all these are my babies because it's my convertible that's more of my family car and you want to take a ride it let's go for a spin this car can go 200 miles an hour life was good for both Stafford and bargains but recently there have been bumps in the road a brief marriage and an expensive divorce for Jay the man right 35 million dollars Wow Vargas claims he has 50% of his winnings left what did you do with your mind invested it and says he's scheduled to start shooting a wrestle Isha's reality show in March you can't just you know Spurs all at once I didn't want to be one of those stories where you know you get gained money in this wealth and then lose it all but if Cynthia Stafford was visualizing long-term financial stability the universe hasn't delivered sadly on January 6th Stafford filed for bankruptcy this week she told us she made some bad investments and lost money in the stock market we told Glynis McCants about the latest developments in Cynthia's life wow wow wow wow does this ultimately mean what does this that they're out like they're broke hi sis well it might raise some questions about any mystical approach to the lottery but my cat says don't stop believe it right there there's a winner there's a winner so even though she won the money she didn't it didn't fix her life did it and as a hundred and twelve million bucks and that's a message for everyone playing if you think the money is gonna fix your life it's not now it's a whole new situation you have to do it you

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Length: 6min 29sec (389 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 16 2016