Games and gambling

Losing

The first time I visited a casino I got bored, so put my remaining chips on number 23. It came in. Unbelievable. I cashed out and never played roulette again. Not so for others. Winning on their first trip can be a hook towards addiction. “Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.” We are all addicts. Some of us are in denial. Put your hands up and admit it. Seek help if you want to live differently.

We need to learn to lose before we learn to win. One way of increasing the joy you give to a winner is to get in a tantrum and show annoyance. Rather than mentally beating yourself up about any loss, you can use it as an opportunity to see room for improvement in your game. Think about what you did right. In many games you will have done a lot more right than wrong even though in life small mistakes can hand victory to your opponent. Whether it is a game or a business loss, we can laugh it off and move on. Few succeed until they experience the pain of a significant loss. Losing small bets has no real impact. Those with money have made a lot, lost a lot along the way and care less about money than those without. Oh boy the money I have lost in business is frightening. Then when profits came torrenting in, the government put out a hand to take a portion. I filled a bucket for them, then a drum then what seemed like a reservoir. It was all gladly handed over to them and spent wisely, fully accountably, thanking me with investigations and compliance checks recurrently.