Responsible practices that ensures you remain productive as a gambler

[Nrcewker]

I dont think the work we do throughout the day has a direct effect on the gambling we do. I think how we gamble or the outcome of our gambling, completely depends on luck. So I dont really understand how these responsible gambling practices will enhance my luck when gambling.

I am sure these activities can help you gamble with less stress but at the end of the day, the ultimate factor is still luck. I also dont like to mix things like my day to day job and gambling. I only try to gamble when I feel that I have a higher chance of winning. Hence this leads to less losses.

[Outhue]

I'll go first:
I only gamble after the day's work, mostly at night and to ensure this, I have a separate device which only it has my gambling apps, I don't take it to work, lest I'll be tempted, I also put it away on days I work from home.

Again I have a time that my gambling must end, as soon as it's 11PM and my sleeping alarm goes off, any gambling activity comes to an end and continues next evening if possible, with the exception of my holidays. It's difficult and painful most times, but keeping to it has really helped.

I don't like gambling at night because I am always tired after long day at work, I won't enjoy the game if I do it at night when I should be sleeping after eating food, I also don't spend a lot of time on online casinos so the time will come when I can gamble during the day, most of the time it's always when I am less busy at work, I am the boss of myself since I don't work under anyone or any company so when sales are dull or work in general isn't available I will grab my smartphone to play some games I downloaded on Playstore or open a online casino and have some fun with slots games.

[Saltysugar99]

As long as a person continues to bet for entertainment, that person will not neglect any of his family and job related responsibilities. But the problem starts from there when the gambler becomes addicted. He wants to make a continuous profit. He is mentally unstable because he cannot accept that he will lose a lot of money due to aggressive betting. So even if he wants but  he cannot concentrate on his responsible work. There are many people who have lost their jobs due to being addicted to betting, suffered losses in the business they had, sold valuable assets due to being addicted to gambling. At one time, he even got separated from his family because as long as that person is mentally upset and financially broken, he is not fulfilling his family responsibilities. Then naturally a distance will be created with his family. Therefore, every gambler should be reasonable by betting for entertainment after fulfilling his family and job responsibilities.

[casey15]

This is more effective on seasoned gamblers for someone like me who gamble occasionally and only on important sporting events I don't really think it will have a big difference. Your routine is very good especially if you are very meticulous and consistent with it. Things like this are what help reduce addiction and prevent one from wasting his life to gamble. I think anybody who is able to be discipline himself in situations like this will tend to have more control over things in their life .

[Kelward]

Setting a gambling budget and a time limit for your gambling activities can help keep a gambler from getting addicted. Any gambler that puts gambling first before any other thing is already addicted if not, why will you gamble with your job and stay jobless when gambling cannot put food on your table.

Only gamble at your leisure time and don't make it a most to make profit whenever, you are gambling. Responsible gambling practice should be your priority. Don't be a greedy gambler.

You have summarized what responsible gambling should be and it centers on money and time, if you're able to have firm control over the two it means that you cannot be addicted, addicted gamblers are people who go into gambling without having a structured plan on how they will not be addicted. Every gambler should have a budget for their bankroll, with a budget that is not more than amount that you can afford to lose and never exceeding amount that you're supposed to use for every session. If you don't have more money to gamble with you'd be forced to stop and that is time management, responsible gambling is not too hard you just have to be disciplined to achieve it.

[DanWalker]

In this thread, I'll want us to discuss some behavioural modifications that we put up to ensure we're not being consumed by our desire to gamble and how we are able to control it in order to remain productive as a person, you can share some of it with us, some people can find what appeals to them and pick up one or two ideas.

Whenever topic of gambling comes up everyone talk about limit on time and budget.
To me playing responsibly isn't just about acting like robot and strictly managing your money or time spent, maintaining your mental peace is equally important.
You need to consider whether getting caught up in game is causing you mental stress. If anxiety or despair take hold then it will impact your daily life. You will loss your enthusiasm for things and your work performance will naturally suffer.

So you can take occasional break from game and even practice some meditation or physical exercise. Another important point is that you need to cultivate other activity or hobby outside of gambling so you can enjoy life. This won't just boost your productivity at work, it will also significantly improve your mental well being.

[Zlantann]

I dont think the work we do throughout the day has a direct effect on the gambling we do. I think how we gamble or the outcome of our gambling, completely depends on luck. So I dont really understand how these responsible gambling practices will enhance my luck when gambling.

I am sure these activities can help you gamble with less stress but at the end of the day, the ultimate factor is still luck. I also dont like to mix things like my day to day job and gambling. I only try to gamble when I feel that I have a higher chance of winning. Hence this leads to less losses.

The thread is not about gambling wins. The OP observation is that some people's gambling activity affects their productivity at work. In some cases, they abandon their formal tasks at work to satisfy the urge to gamble. The discussion is about ways to enjoy gambling and also have effective control over it.

There is also a relationship between gambling at the wrong time and productivity. Gambling during work time could cause gamblers to make mistakes because they are not doing it in the right environment. They might have to rush through games because they don't want to be noticed by co-workers or top management staff.

[lovesmayfamilis]

I only gamble after the day's work, mostly at night and to ensure this, I have a separate device which only it has my gambling apps, I don't take it to work, lest I'll be tempted, I also put it away on days I work from home.

Again I have a time that my gambling must end, as soon as it's 11PM and my sleeping alarm goes off, any gambling activity comes to an end and continues next evening if possible, with the exception of my holidays. It's difficult and painful most times, but keeping to it has really helped.

It's hard for me to imagine that I'm deliberately putting my phone or other device aside, just because I sometimes gamble and by opening the gadget, I'm cultivating my self-restraint🤷‍♀️. It is always kept in a convenient, visible spot. Yes, It is very difficult for me to understand this. and it's not clear how it can happen to others. It is also very difficult for me to figure out how to spend the money that I planned to spend on my family and children. Just as deceiving someone by borrowing money and not paying it back, because I am a fan of playing in casinos. We, those people who do not have any addictions, probably have different DNA, since we are completely calm and able to control our feelings and not succumb to someone's manipulations. And yes, I think gambling is better suited for calm people who don't need self-imposed restrictions but simply play when they are in the mood, have free money, have company, or have free time. However, it should never be done to the detriment of yourself or others.

[Maslate]

I can say I am a gambler but I don't actually prioritize gambling. I gamble only when there is extra money from my payday, but there are times that I ended up paycheck to paycheck so even if I want to, but there is no extra means to gamble.

And I always set my gambling activities only during weekends, that is if I have spare money to spend. And during gambling, whether it ended up a win or loss, I stick to my budget. I don't go chasing my wins or losses, because for sure I'll be in the losing end if ever I entertain that greed inside of me.

[Ruttoshi]

You have summarized what responsible gambling should be and it centers on money and time, if you're able to have firm control over the two it means that you cannot be addicted, addicted gamblers are people who go into gambling without having a structured plan on how they will not be addicted. Every gambler should have a budget for their bankroll, with a budget that is not more than amount that you can afford to lose and never exceeding amount that you're supposed to use for every session. If you don't have more money to gamble with you'd be forced to stop and that is time management, responsible gambling is not too hard you just have to be disciplined to achieve it.

I believe that all gamblers started gambling with the mindset to be in control of their gambling activities but along the line, they got carried away with their losses and couldn't let it go because they have gambled with huge amount of money. This is why it's good that you don't go beyond your gambling limit regardless the outcome of your bets.

When you feel that you almost hit the jackpot and that's the last spare cash on you, just stop and don't try again because you're about to lose control of yourself at that moment which can change your whole intention of gambling responsible to an irresponsible gambler.

[AmaGold70]

Allowing gambling to interfere with your job, and productive moments is really a sign of irresponsibility and addiction. When some people allow themselves to be overwhelmed by their gambling desires making them not to deliver their jobs effectively, and even distancing themselves from their family or close relations they are already destroying what they have built. One shouldn't be gambling all the time, in ones free time someone can make his predictions, and place his bet, and not when you are supposed to give attention to things more necessary. Giving all our attention to gambling doesn't guarantee success, and it noticed that when you give much focus to gambling, the more you lose, and possibly chase losses. We should cultivate, and encourage responsible gambling so that our jobs , relationship, and responsible lifestyle will be ensured.

[Sobz]

Naturally their are people who are not self conscious in mind of the things they do, they lack the understanding of reasoning and to examine their self to do things in the right way that is why you can see someone who have have a job and to meet up with an important task will concentrate in gambling that is uncertain. Gambling is not a problem but the real problem is the way people understand things. Many people who are into gambling are not even discipline and someone like this who is into gambling, you cant expect a positive character of how they go about gambling. If we take gambling aside, some people lack discipline and just imagine when they add gambling as an hobby without even understanding it, it becomes a serious problem.

[Cleanshit]

I can say I am a gambler but I don't actually prioritize gambling. I gamble only when there is extra money from my payday, but there are times that I ended up paycheck to paycheck so even if I want to, but there is no extra means to gamble.

And I always set my gambling activities only during weekends, that is if I have spare money to spend. And during gambling, whether it ended up a win or loss, I stick to my budget. I don't go chasing my wins or losses, because for sure I'll be in the losing end if ever I entertain that greed inside of me.

It very important to stick to a budget, as a gambler what you should always consider is to understand having a clear stopping point. We’re most of this problem comes is when you lose and would feel that you just have to recover this money immediately or even when you just win and will want to keep playing to win cause you are using the money from the ones you won.

My advice and which I follow most, regardless of if am winning or loading the time or amount which have planned, once it finished that all for that day. So with this it has made gambling so easy for me, and also made it easy to treat entertaining.

[Dr.Bitcoin_Strange]

As for myself, I gamble mostly during weekends, not that I don't gamble during some working days but it's rare, even if I am done with work for that day, I have to rest and prepare for the next day work but it's during weekends that I don't go to work that I can spend some time at home with friends and family. If I deprive my self from having enough rest after work, it's usually affects me the following, unlike you who can gamble at night after work. So, my advice is that, everyone should just identify what works for them, they should identify the best method that can help them to be responsible and productive. Some people already knows what to do but because of how desperate they are to make money from gambling, they can not practice a responsible method.

[Grace333]

Well, everyone that has a certain level of experience in gambling understands all these, in order to achieve progress there are some things that you need to do, it is important to have a budget fixed for gambling, the reason why this is something that needs to be done is because it gives you a limit on what you are going to spend so you don't end up gambling carelessly. It is also important to maintain the same stake amount, it doesn't matter you are winning or losing your stakes should always be at a moderate amount.
The problem with a lot of gamblers is that they increase their stakes after incurring losses, using martingale Strategy, this is a wrong approach.

[SFR10]

In this thread, I'll want us to discuss some behavioural modifications that we put up to ensure we're not being consumed by our desire to gamble and how we are able to control it in order to remain productive as a person, you can share some of it with us, some people can find what appeals to them and pick up one or two ideas.

I find that using time-blocking apps to maintain strict schedules helps a lot with time management for gambling-related activities ^{[it might be boring and annoying at first (especially if you're a sports bettor who has to spend more time on the research & analysis parts), but you quickly learn to love it]}.

[Female King]

Your ways of following gambling is a good practice and it is very possible that some gamblers here, can have some similar ways of staking, so my own ways of gambling is basically on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday and within the middle of the week is only when there is champions League or league cups, i don't really book games every weeks, once my prediction doesn't pleased me in that particular week, i will not force myself to stake for that week because my aim is to experience winning more than losing in this season and immediately the leagues I'm familiar with ends their leagues and go for holidays, i automatically go for break on gambling, so i can't never miss out my working hours for a gambling and it is very understandable that all fingers are not equal in terms of financial but we should learn how to control ourselves with time we should spend while gambling.

Having budgeted time to gamble will help in reducing gambling addict, and gambling shouldn't be what one should think first unless for those who takes it as a source of income and taking gambling as your source of income simply means that you are already addicted into gambling.

I only gamble on weekends when there is enough match to bet on and sometimes during midweek too when there is UCL and UEL, to ensure a professional gambling one need to gamble responsibly by staking with money they can afford to lose.

[Pandorak]

I'll go first:
I only gamble after the day's work, mostly at night and to ensure this, I have a separate device which only it has my gambling apps, I don't take it to work, lest I'll be tempted, I also put it away on days I work from home.

Again I have a time that my gambling must end, as soon as it's 11PM and my sleeping alarm goes off, any gambling activity comes to an end and continues next evening if possible, with the exception of my holidays. It's difficult and painful most times, but keeping to it has really helped.

It’s been a long time since i decided to stop gambling on my cell phone. This has been quite effective in reducing the time i spend gambling, and i also get to enjoy more moments when i’m out of the house, like when i’m at work, on vacation, having dinner with my family, or hanging out with friends. Because in the past, i didn’t care where or when, even if i was at work, whenever the urge struck, i’d act on it immediately without thinking twice, without considering the other risks. Of course, this was very bad because the outcome could end up affecting my mood at the time and lead to even more negative consequences.

[Africolo]

First off, this isn't a s thread of "gambling with what you can afford to lose", I'm not talking about how to reduce gambling loss.

I've come to observe that being able to control how gambling encouraged on important things helps gamblers remain productive in other areas of life, including career wise, this is at a time that most gamblers have prioritized gambling over their jobs, families, career, good relationships e.t.c because of over indulgence in gambling at a time they should be attending to other important tasks, some gamblers have made gambling the no.1 activity in their scale of preference and that's costing them a lot already to the extent they start losing interest in their jobs, doing their duties as parents and and other responsibilities.

Most people are underperforming in their jobs, some have been fired already from their jobs and some who are into business lost lots of clients and their businesses stalled. It's possible to find good practices to maintain focus on personal productivity as a gambler.

In this thread, I'll want us to discuss some behavioural modifications that we put up to ensure we're not being consumed by our desire to gamble and how we are able to control it in order to remain productive as a person, you can share some of it with us, some people can find what appeals to them and pick up one or two ideas.

I'll go first:
I only gamble after the day's work, mostly at night and to ensure this, I have a separate device which only it has my gambling apps, I don't take it to work, lest I'll be tempted, I also put it away on days I work from home.

Again I have a time that my gambling must end, as soon as it's 11PM and my sleeping alarm goes off, any gambling activity comes to an end and continues next evening if possible, with the exception of my holidays. It's difficult and painful most times, but keeping to it has really helped.

Having a good bankroll Management and being able to curtail one's gambling habits in other not to gamble excessively and probably be an an addict is one of the greatest features of an individual who is gambling should possess, because greed has made many individuals forget themselves and got carried away and you will see someone will prioritize his gambling at the detriment of his job that is, some persons literally skip their work schedules and be gambling or show less concern and attention to their work in the office and at the end of the day get sacked which is very wrong.

There should be time for our gambling activities if we really want to gamble and it should also have limits and gambling shouldn't be seen as a do or die affair as one must not be on the winning shit every given time because it gives room for addiction and we should try to stick to the fixed budget we have for gambling to avoid being frustrated and addiction.

[Tungbulu]

Well, everyone that has a certain level of experience in gambling understands all these, in order to achieve progress there are some things that you need to do, it is important to have a budget fixed for gambling, the reason why this is something that needs to be done is because it gives you a limit on what you are going to spend so you don't end up gambling carelessly. It is also important to maintain the same stake amount, it doesn't matter you are winning or losing your stakes should always be at a moderate amount.
The problem with a lot of gamblers is that they increase their stakes after incurring losses, using martingale Strategy, this is a wrong approach.

I think the easiest part is setting those budgets, because I believe majority of the gamblers actually set budgets for themselves, but the real challenge comes with having the discipline to stick to those budgets, especially when emotions kicks in, because very bettors with a budget can actually do this. When people lose a particular amount of money, it could create the urge to chase to recover the loss quickly, while a few wins on the other hand has a way of boosting people’s confidence way more than they should have. The moment they start allowing their emotions to push them into changing their stakes or compromising their original goals, those goals and plans has already started breaking down.