Perseverance is a quality that most people need to be trained from an early age, perseverance in getting top grades, in achieving top performance at sports or other endeavors, but usually perseverance for most of us means some type of effort and sometimes even sacrifice. Take for example the perseverance to run a marathon, how many hours and days of training do you need to dedicate solely for this purpose. What about an artist´s on-stage performance, how many hours of sweat and rehearsals does it take to make a couple of minutes perfect and magical? And for lottery players, well even if you played every single day of your life, does that beat the actual odds of winning the jackpot?

A couple won a twenty million dollar lotto ticket bought in Rancho Mirage. The winning numbers are: 25, 22, 28, 43, 21 and the mega number 12. The couple that won the jackpot came forward Saturday to claim their prize, a whopping 20 million dollars. Lottery checker

For many this win is simply something most only dream about. After all, what can you do with all that money. For starters only counting the zeros is already a task, and second even after you made a list as long as Santa´s you might learn that you still have some cash to spare!

Yes, that´s 20 million dollars! Money you can use to put your children through college, buy a new home with all the rooms you could ever imagine, travel around the world, start the business you have ever wanted, start a trust fund, help others, you name it. That 20 million dollar prize is enough to have our imagination racing because for many, this is only a dream. A dream that’s now a reality for this unidentified lucky couple who bought the ticket that is going to open up the doors to the realization of all their dreams at the Chevron station on Bob Hope Drive, in Rancho Mirage.

A 20 million dollar win pays about 14.2 million dollars, if you take the cash option. But what are your chances of hitting it this big?

The odds of hitting all five numbers – one in, one and a half million. The odds of hitting all 5 and the mega number, one in 41 and a half million. Lottery winning numbers

So what makes this couple special, was it the luck or the perseverance. Maybe it was the combination of both, after all and in anything it is actually a 50-50 chance if you take into account the human factor. According to lottery officials the lucky couple that is taking home the ticket to their dreams had the practice of buying a ticket every week for years now. Now that is what I call perseverance, and as you can see it does pay off sooner or later.