Does the work come from our "Lot in Life", or from the fact that many people play for the hope of one day winning a "LOT of money"? In the first alternative, we are hopelessly negative, because as my daand as such believe the Grand Overall Design will always have my back. So even when my lady asks me for my last 20 euros to buy period pads, I know that shortly there will be something that will allow me to take care of myself too.
And yet, even though I do believe it wholeheartedly, I sometimes play the lottery just to give the universe a "way in" to provide my girl and me with an awesome future which I know we will eventually have anyway. Still, it is a good thing manifestation is not instant but buffered by time so we don't constantly have to un-manifest what we manifested too soon...