Defining Potential

I have long held the belief that my potential was out of this world. I saw my potential to win lotto like it was a guaranteed thing to happen to me. I saw my potential to win at anything or gain on the sharemarket or currency trading as a guaranteed thing. Whenever I didn't win, I would find a justification such as a lesson that needed to be learnt, or a direction that needed to be changed, so as to never actually challenge my perception of my incredible potential. Today I feel I have reached a new perspective of my potential. One that I find acceptable to explore, and that even if i am wrong, it will provide me with a win win situation. I have decided that sense of potential is different from my potential. My sense of potential is my awareness of the context of potential that exists. The context being the space in which something exists. So I am recognizing that the context to win lotto exists. This is a fact. But the difference between this sense of potential and my actual potential is the problem. My actual potential is the amount of energy via appreciation I have put into my context. Contexts can be anything from transport, to accomodation, to relationships to wealth, health and contentment. When I focus on my sense of potential which is the cool car, or gorgeous wife to be ( ooh yeh, lucky me...already manifested that one) or whether it be the lotto win, or luxury lifestyle etc, I am creating a gap between what I have and what I am trying to create. This creates debt, and unhappiness because I simply don't appreciate what I have while I am busy drooling over what I want. If I focused on what I had and appreciated all of it individually, the appreciation energy would be overflowing in all of my contexts, therefore I would have plenty of creative energy, the universe would automatically manifest the ideas it knows I want or better, and the balance/surplus which is abundance would be manifested as money. ie a lotto win. I have always known about appreciation, but this is making a lot of sense. I think the key is be proactive now and put this into practice enough to give it a chance. This of course means, having a time of now wanting....just appreciating. If I haven't already mentioned it, the way to appreciate what you have is to look at it from a different perspective. Usually we look at what we have from the perspective of what we want. Try to look at what you have from the perspective of someone who would love to have what you have. It does wonders. Also remember what you loved about it when you first got it. Also do something new with it. Do something different with it. This applies to everything whether it is your current car, home, relationships, job, or leisure. Even your current wealth/ income. Do something different from what you usually do...it puts a great deal of life back into what you have. On another note I have truly discovered for myself the value in karmic cleaning. To have money and want to invest it to make more or to invest it in removing debt, is a tough but necessary step to take.