Can writing how hard you worked for earning money restrict you from gambling?

[Best Dreams]

Earning money is real hard and it's a no-brainer. So basically what I do is I write down in a diary of my daily income along side with what I have sacrificed for earning that amount.

It is really hard to earn money by this time so seeing your money being lose in a gambling will definitely hurt you a lot. You know what, it is not really a bad thing to gamble but just do limit the time of gambling. Dedicate a little amount of money that you are afford of losing and ofcourse a discipline in yourself so that you will not be so addicted to it.

Disciplining yourself especially in a game such as gambling where there are maximum chances of getting addicted is a must to do a thing. You can discipline yourself in two simple steps i.e. limit your time for gambling followed by limiting your money. This is the only effective way of avoiding gambling addiction.

[Astvile]

Realizing how hard it is to earn money and learn how to spend it the right way is a good thing. However, writing how hard you worked for a certain amount of money may not work for other people, but the good thing is it is working for you. We all have our own way of preventing ourselves from gambling some just think of their family and future and the things he really needs to keep moving on in life.

[jostorres]

I couldn't really tell how hard it is because I really enjoy my work,
But I also consider it as a hard earn money since I also spend time and effort for it.
But this wouldn't really stop me from gambling because if I am being stress out from my work or family problems gambling is one way to relieve the stress.

That's because it seems like you are earning more than you require in life and hence you feel like gambling is not a problem and you can gamble when you are stressed while the example in the OP seems like he works very hard for money and sacrificed his 2 hours of sleep which usually most western guys would never do for 20 bucks. Hence, I feel that knowing how hard it is for you to earn money can restrict you from gambling up to a certain level but that only works as long as you just earn enough for your needs. Once you are earning more than the necessity then the extra amount always goes into gambling/drugs or maybe other addictions and hobbies.

Hence, I often feel like hard working people are more active and physically and mentally fit.

[Pmalek]

That is a good way @OP of restricting yourself. I work a lot myself and have mouths to feed. I sacrifice a lot of my free time to work even more because if I don't do it, nobody will do it for me. It is easy to piss away money but if you remember the time and effort you needed to earn you might stop and think. Prioritize your family and put everything else in second place. You don't gamble if your daughter goes barefoot to school. Make sure she has shoes first and then treat yourself to some fun in a casino. 

[Pamadar]

Realizing how hard it is to earn money and learn how to spend it the right way is a good thing. However, writing how hard you worked for a certain amount of money may not work for other people, but the good thing is it is working for you. We all have our own way of preventing ourselves from gambling some just think of their family and future and the things he really needs to keep moving on in life.

Thinking that you are wasting those money which comes from your hard labors will let you realized that you can use it to much better ways. Things will works especially to those who are concerned with how they are limiting their budget. It can avoid heavy too much engagements from this activities and will lead you to find other ways to use your money. It's about how will you convinced yourself that money should be use properly and not just for the sake of entertainments.

[Sebas.tian]

What just happened to you will definitely varies with other persons put into your shoe. Some are gamblers that wouldn't like to remembered what they gone through before they earned what they about to throw down to the gambling platform. Those especially with gambling problems, like addiction to gambling. These sets will go ahead to give the platform what they have suffered to get. Personally, these sets of individuals are disappointment to their own self and that of their family.

In my gambling life, whatsoever I get from gambling is what I invest back to gambling and not the other way round. OP did well and such decision should be applauded because they are very rare to exhibit. Haven gone through two hours of getten a job that fetched you such money, should be use properly.

[fullhdpixel]

Gambling is definitely addictive, so even with the hard earn money you earn in your job you can stake it in a matter of hours and this is a signal that you are out of control. So you have to be careful and always calm because maybe the next steps you can take will surely ruin your life.

That is what the thread is all about, making sure that how hard it was for us to earn that money will surely make you more hesitant to gamble that money.

I will share my example here and I hope it will help others understand, look I am someone who earns enough to feed my family but I never have money t gamble too much but last year I had a land dispute here which went in our way and we were given some massive amount of money as compensation for the land that was sold by a fraud person.

Now, once I get that free money, most of it was used to buy luxurious items but a large sum of money was burnt by me in gambling and that's where hard earned money would have never gone. Just because I got a lot of money without any hard work of efforts it was just wasted by me, hence realizing it is your hard work that you are burning in gambling will certainly make you feel like never gambling again.

[bitbunnny]

Gambling should be fun with potential to also earn some money. The fact that I have to work hard reminds me that I shouldn't waist my money so I will not quit gambling but I will be careful how much I spend and not to cross the line. And I wouldn't spend on.gambling money that I need for my daily expenses but the amount I can afford to spend for my pleasure and I don't think there is anything wrong with that.

[CarnagexD]

It is about the realizatiion of how hard you earn your money,

I think it is helpful enough to restrict someone if he do this. But for me, since I am also working in real life, I have experience how really hard it is to earn money, even without writing how hard I worked to earn that money I already have the realization and easily restrict myself from gambling.

We all have different stories on how we were able to earn lots of many and make it on where we are right now. If we are to gamble with the money we worked hard for, we should think about thoroughly cause it is our freedom yet we don't want all our hardworks go to waste as we end up losing in a gamble.

What just happened to you will definitely varies with other persons put into your shoe. Some are gamblers that wouldn't like to remembered what they gone through before they earned what they about to throw down to the gambling platform. Those especially with gambling problems, like addiction to gambling. These sets will go ahead to give the platform what they have suffered to get. Personally, these sets of individuals are disappointment to their own self and that of their family.

In my gambling life, whatsoever I get from gambling is what I invest back to gambling and not the other way round. OP did well and such decision should be applauded because they are very rare to exhibit. Haven gone through two hours of getten a job that fetched you such money, should be use properly.

There are different types of gamblers, some are those who are wise while some are those who are already too addicted that they make careless decisions. As long as you gamble with your mind being active and not your emotions are taking over, you should atleast know where are the right places to put your winnings from gambling at.

[LogitechMouse]

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Working hard for money will make you realize how to earn money thus, your mindset will change after working for money and your spending habits will surely change.

I have experienced this after graduation when I choose to work for money. I limited my spending and I choose the things that I want to buy right now. Working hard for the sake of money will change your ways of spending money especially in gambling. If you worked hard for it and you realized that you are always losing in gambling, it might change how you think and instead of using your money in gambling you will choose to save it or invest into other investments or buy your things so I can say that saving what you are doing for the sake of money thru writing it will help you not to gamble.

[Rosilito]

That's really a big help for you to overcome the urge of gambling. Not a motivation though but an influence for you to have some change of plan, decision at a current time. Well, there's nothing wrong either on betting it as it you did work for it to gain but the sacrifices behind it really burns your regrets of sacrificing your sleep over doing those assignments, what's wrong is that when you bet a money you just stole from your mom's pocket/wallet, 'cause there is a big difference between the money you work on your own to gain, and a money you didn't work for. Anyway, I love the idea of yours, really hooks me up as well.

[TheGreatPython]

Well that's some hardships you got there bro even i wouldn't do task or job just to get a $20 reward and on top of that, it was a electrical engineering assignment. If you have brains like that you should go to college and study. So you can have a hobby and stay away from gambling if its destroying you.

But, hardships are important in life because hard times are nothing but learning times because you understand the value of money and the value of your talent. I mean yes I would myself never waste my sleep and wake for a 20 bucks specially when I am mentally exhausted but there were times in past when I used to do such tasks and earn money but those times just shaped me as a better person eventually.

You know gambling is just for the rich with extra money to burn or spent carelessly, so hard earn cash should be throughly carefully spent in necessities.

Gambling is made for rich I can agree with that but if you actually do a survey you will realize the big percentage of people that suffer from gambling addiction are poor people because they feel gambling is their solution to monetary needs and they get trapped digging a bigger hole slowly and eventually realizing but it's too late by the time they realize it.

[DabsPoorVersion]

when you are working its normal to sacrifice the time and some of your effort in order for you to earn some cash  so we shouldnt really count them  .  what matter the most is that we earn x amount and we gamble x amount too .  small amount is considered small amount depending on how much you can afford   . for me 20 usd is small but 100 usd for me is the ideal bankroll to be able to playmore and earn more    . i also work hard over 8 hrs on almost every single day but i dont care as long as i gamble  because it gives me entertainment and profit if ever i got lucky

No mate, counting your money is a must,

You should know how muh you earn and how much your expenses. If you know this, you will realized that even a penny will be hard to bet or to gamble. Not because you work hard means that you should spend it on gambling. We should know to ourselves what is our priority and gamble only the extra money we have.

[btc78]

when you are working its normal to sacrifice the time and some of your effort in order for you to earn some cash  so we shouldnt really count them  .  what matter the most is that we earn x amount and we gamble x amount too .  small amount is considered small amount depending on how much you can afford   . for me 20 usd is small but 100 usd for me is the ideal bankroll to be able to playmore and earn more    . i also work hard over 8 hrs on almost every single day but i dont care as long as i gamble  because it gives me entertainment and profit if ever i got lucky

No mate, counting your money is a must,

You should know how muh you earn and how much your expenses. If you know this, you will realized that even a penny will be hard to bet or to gamble. Not because you work hard means that you should spend it on gambling. We should know to ourselves what is our priority and gamble only the extra money we have.

But this is not for gambling mate,year in real life we must write down our expenses but in gambling?it is better for us to just tell our self how much our budget for each playing and after losing we will go home

Same as the wining we should have enough amount of target that if we reach then we can stand on table and go home

[Betwrong]

Earning money is real hard and it's a no-brainer. So basically what I do is I write down in a diary of my daily income along side with what I have sacrificed for earning that amount.

Yesterday night after finishing my own assignment, I worked as a freelancer from 12am to 2 am to complete an assignment based on electrical engineering to earn $20.

I wrote down in my diary - earnt $20 - sacrificed 2 hours of sleep, 2 hours of not watching netflix and put in mental effort when mentally I was exhausted.

Now when I would have the urge to gamble with that $20, I would just see the diary and would realize I am not just gambling with $20 but gambling with that sacrifice of time and effort which I'll never get back. And it has worked for me to a certain level.

What's your opinion on this......

You don't have to gamble all those $20 but you can gamble a small portion of it, I'm not encouraging you to gamble but giving you a clear picture that a gamble can still gamble at even a small amount, because most gambling casinos, do not have minimum bet in fact I once allocated only $2 and still have the fun that I want but of course not the profit.

$2 is a typical amount I usually win or lose daily. Indeed you can still have fun playing like that, because $2 is not nothing, but, at the same time, it's not the end of the world when you are losing it.

In fact, many casinos do have a minimum bet set, especially on Slots, but it's $0.1, or even much less than that, so, yes, $2 bankroll is enough to have some fun. The key is to not start chasing your losses in the case of losing all your balance, lest your initial loss turned into something like $20, which most of us here can't easily afford to lose.

[jhonjhon]

Earning money is real hard and it's a no-brainer. So basically what I do is I write down in a diary of my daily income along side with what I have sacrificed for earning that amount.

It is really hard to earn money by this time so seeing your money being lose in a gambling will definitely hurt you a lot. You know what, it is not really a bad thing to gamble but just do limit the time of gambling. Dedicate a little amount of money that you are afford of losing and ofcourse a discipline in yourself so that you will not be so addicted to it.

Disciplining yourself especially in a game such as gambling where there are maximum chances of getting addicted is a must to do a thing. You can discipline yourself in two simple steps i.e. limit your time for gambling followed by limiting your money. This is the only effective way of avoiding gambling addiction.

It is easy said that done, we can always say that will only gamble using this specific amount to gamble at this specific time but once in and is at its peak of gambling they losses it. A person should have the strong will to discipline himself not to be addicted to gambling and only gamble what they can afford to lose, if one don't have it then rest assured he'll end up like everybody else who got addicted. We all know, well if not all then most of us know how hard it is to earn money but most of the time some few is too desperate to become rich and they risk it to gambling without really thinking of what the consequences.

[Blackdeath]

Earning money is real hard and it's a no-brainer. So basically what I do is I write down in a diary of my daily income along side with what I have sacrificed for earning that amount.

Yesterday night after finishing my own assignment, I worked as a freelancer from 12am to 2 am to complete an assignment based on electrical engineering to earn $20.

I wrote down in my diary - earnt $20 - sacrificed 2 hours of sleep, 2 hours of not watching netflix and put in mental effort when mentally I was exhausted.

Now when I would have the urge to gamble with that $20, I would just see the diary and would realize I am not just gambling with $20 but gambling with that sacrifice of time and effort which I'll never get back. And it has worked for me to a certain level.

What's your opinion on this......

Just like in a saying that money don't grow on trees meaning earning money should be acquired through hard work, that is why it is pretty hard for everybody if they keep wasting money on something that they don't really need. Gambling is really not a place to spend your money on because you could really lose a lot of money in gambling, but it is okay if you are wealthy enough to do that.

[maxreish]

I think I really have to do that, too. If i think i need some pull off or out of control already. Making journal could somehow be a help.
That is a realization or a reflection that you are gambling with your own sweat. Your time, sleepless nights to earn and then you gamble that money which came from your own effort. There is no assurance of winning or doubling that amount instant like other gamblers are thinking. That is why gambling from your own salary isn't advisable.

[panjul07]

I do not need to write such diary, simply put it in my own mind about how hard I earn the money is more than enough. As long as we are able to control ourselves then we will be able to stay away from gambling.
Even if once you think that you can earn the money in the easiest way, you will be still able to stay away from gambling if you can control yourself. So the key is ourselves, not the writing or other thing.

[smyslov]

Now when I would have the urge to gamble with that $20, I would just see the diary and would realize I am not just gambling with $20 but gambling with that sacrifice of time and effort which I'll never get back. And it has worked for me to a certain level.

What's your opinion on this......

Glad that it's working for you, but I doubt if it will on the compulsive gambler, in fact they are working doubly hard just to get the money they can use to gamble, some gamblers are even resorting to stealing and other criminal activity, without thinking of the risk of getting caught, all they are thinking is how to get money for gambling.