Hold onto your $500. Work and earn $500. Don't spend it. It sounds trite but at the level of money you are talking about doing valuable things and having peopl

Hold onto your $500. Work and earn $500. Don't spend it. It sounds trite but at the level of money you are talking about doing valuable things and having people throw money at you is screamingly obvious. If you do not have the skills to generate $500 from your efforts, then you have identified an underlying condition that cannot be solved by, e.g., gambling.