Practicing Hope vs. Wishful Thinking Laws of Abundance

I really hope that I win the lottery someday.  I have many plans for how I will pay off my parents, sisters and friends mortgages and student loans and invest in multiple high yield stocks and then travel the world stopping only now and again to do volunteer work and a spiritual guide. The one problem with this plan is that I never buy lottery tickets.  I just wish and dream about what I would do if I win the lottery.  So an essential piece is missing to actually ever seeing my wish fulfilled sans a fairy godmother or a genie coming to grant it. 
I am a proponent of believing in magick. Magick being the act of making something from nothing, or changing something from one thing into something else. By this definition we are doing magick every time we cook, every time we engage in a creative act, every time we make an idea reality through the four worlds of idea, thought, plan, action.
What is not this type of magick is what I call "wishful thinking" or Magical Thinking.  This is just sitting on your butt wishing for things to come to you and not doing anything to make them happen.  My lottery ticket story is an over-simplified example. Another example is when people send “thoughts & prayers”  to something - as they are choosing magical thinking versus doing something about the tragedy.  Or someone saying “I wish I had more money.”
But they do not go out and get more money via a better job, implementation of an entrepreneurial idea, or even a side-hustle. The key piece missing in any type of wishful thinking is responsibility (i.e. acknowledgment of the ability to respond) and personal agency i.e. action taken based on the acknowledgment of the ability to respond.  
Magical thinking is the abdication of personal responsibility, the abdication of action - and is simply a person doing nothing but wishing based on the belief that simply by desiring/wanting something you deserve to get the something and thus it will come to you.  This is the definition of entitlement.  The belief that you deserve something simply because you want it. With entitlement comes a sense of victim because when one does not get what they believe they deserve they then think someone took it from them, and they are hence wronged (and now a victim). When in fact they never had anything to begin with. And when this lack mentality, this win/lose mentality starts to pervade every thought process of a person, you get thought structures and false realities that entrench a person in being stuck, in lack, in victim, in powerlessness, and the results are not pretty. We are seeing them at work in the collective consciousness every day. 
If you are listening to my podcast you are likely not at a critical level of hopelessness, or wishful thinking in your life.  But I want to challenge you to examine where in your life that wishful thinking might be at play.  
Where are you feeling entitled?  Where do you feel like you deserve to receive something just because you want it?  What places do you feel as if someone took something of yours?  Or that they got in the way of something coming to you?  Or where are you simply wishing for something to happen?  What are you actually doing about that wish? Where are you saying if I won the lottery...but then not buying a ticket. I’m not saying go out and start buying lottery tickets - but where is this same mentality at play in your life?  Do you want a better job?  Are you looking for that better job?  Have you defined what that better job is even?  Have you updated your resume?  Are you looking at increasing your skill set, starting a business instead?  Do you want less stress?  Are you exercising, meditating or practicing deep breathing? Or are you Doom Scrolling on Reddit and Facebook for hours on end instead?  Is the TV on a 24 hour new station for more than an hour a day? These are just examples of places where this wishful thinking could be at work.  Take a look at what you are