Well I am two for two on blogging in the new year and the heavy updates and new insights should be coming almost if not daily. You have to love blogs that are updated frequently. Well moving into the new year of course success is major focus and topic on all of our minds. Well there many paths and definitions of success but there must be certain characteristics or traits we can develop and implement that will help guide and encourage our life success. I have been trying to work on and utilize everyday a tree of success so far there are only a few branches and I am going slowly but surely to maintain a reasonable and maintainable rate of success. I am also working on a visual version that should be up soon. Below is what I have so far and what I have been concentrating on in the new year. This will also be the beginning of a piece I hope to incorporate with my life management and success book I am working.
SUCCESS:
A key to remember when reviewing and implementing the below tree/plan/outline is that it takes patience and practice. It can be implemented and slowly and over time. It is a piece by piece by development process that will form into a complete package. It is a journey and not a race.
EXERCISE:
I have read many books on success and they often leave out exercise. I think exercise is one of the most important factors to life success.
Reasons why exercise contributes to success:
-There is the testing of limits. Diligent and effective exercise teaches and requires you to push yourself beyond comfort levels.
-There is the formation of structure. Diligent and effective exercise teaches and requires you to form a schedule and follow a plan.
-There is the conditioning of the physical body. Diligent and effective exercise teaches and requires you to improve and maintain more empowered physical conditioning allowing for a higher level of life performance when facing physical demands.
-There is the building of positive results. Diligent and effective exercise teaches and requires you to reach for and gain positive results thus increasing the understanding of what it takes to move in positive directions. I have not seen a scientific study or written article claiming that exercise when done right has a negative impact on human existence.
-There is the improvement of health. If you are not healthy it becomes hard to enjoy anything in life.
What exercises I incorporate in my life:
There should never be a reason or excuse why we can all not take a little time each day to do some form of exercising. Exercising can be free, quick and done in a variety of places and ways.
Stretching:
Stretching is a great form of exercise and something very easy to do and that can be done everywhere. Tips I have learned about stretching are to do it very slow. Do not bounce. The movements should be calculated and controlled. You should feel the burn/work without ever jeopardizing straining a body part. Each stretch try to clear your mind, focus on the specific task and maintain balance and control. Push yourself to stretch farther within your limits. Monitor your progress and consistently stretching everyday for a month or two should reveal significant progress.
Stretches I am doing:
Toe Touches – Sitting and standing. Either sit or stand and slowly try to touch your toes. Stretch as far as your body will allow. Do this four times a day for 8-12 seconds per time/stretch.
Top 10 websites for exercise tips/help:
http://www.free-online-health.com/
CHARITY
Top 10 websites for charity:
www.goodwill.org
Well since I have been stinking it up in sports betting in my public record which now stands at even:
W/L (Wins/Loses) 5 – 5 R/R (Risk/Reward Ratio) 11.68/10.55 Total Winnings 0
I am also now writing sort of a beginners guide and sports betting theory book and here is a piece of the introduction with a simple theory to follow and an excerpt of the book. As I just started tracking this theory I will hopefully be posting the pick daily and tracking it in a spreadsheet (if anyone wants it). We will also make it my pick of the day for today since obviously my sports betting factor model needs tweaking (see past post). So here it is:
PICK:
DATE GAME/PICK RISK REWARD
1/2/2008 Texas Tech (-3.5/-110) 1.1 1
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I love to gamble. My favorite type of gambling is on sports. Sports can at times be life’s shadow. This is an American pastime. Forget statistics but taking a poll of my male friends (and this is a biased bunch) ALL of them wager or have wagered on sports. It might be once a day, more likely a few times a year, possibly once in their lives but amazingly and addmitingly this is a true fact. Sports betting is alive and well in America. Statistics or not (don’t make me fetch them) it is almost undeniable that sports betting is prevalent in the world. Sports betting can provide all the provocative allure of a new love interest while constantly reminding us of the harsh realities of life. It’s sometimes like being in a womb where everything feels so nice but you just know you have to come out sometime from that beautiful hole to see some fucked up shit. Regardless and aside from my personal thoughts sports betting is a long standing global tradition among humans that will never die as long as competition exists.
For centuries people have wagered on the outcome of sporting events both for pleasure and profit. Sports are entertaining, unpredictable and like buying stock, placing a sports bet with little information allows the money risk to hover around 50-50 with a cost associated with the risk. Betting on sports or buying a stock without doing research is essentially like flipping a coin for the same amount of money. The winning or losing result is predicated by an unknown future event.
EVERY SPORTS BET MEANS SOMETHING:
THE CONSENSUS THEORY:
Sports often mimics life. Important to the foundation of America and the basis of many a rule consensus is a tool coveted by many. There is no reason why we should not take advantage of this when making sports bets. As I have always maintained the beauty of sports betting is it either goes one way or the other. For life’s decisions the consensus is usually followed until a new consensus or overpowering smaller entity is formed to prove otherwise. As is our choice however we can go against the wind. The question is can the people be right? The best way to determine this is to form a method of tracking in a reasonable manner how well betting with the consensus fairs. This is also a useful tool that allows us to aggregate and utilize the brains and work of hundreds if not thousands of other people with very little effort. Using this theory/method is a great introduction into the world of sports but also something that should be being tracked and used by seasoned professionals as well. If you do not believe the people are right then simply just use the same method and bet against it.
How I implement the consensus theory. The first goal is to find reliable and trustworthy consensus sources. This will allow us to research what the general public is thinking and also to formulate some type of patterned consensus research.
The first place I start is www.vegasinsider.com. On the middle right hand side of the home page they have something called “TODAY’S TOP BETTING TRENDS” [provided by www.sportsbook.com]. I then open also the website www.wagerline.com. On the middle right hand side of the home page they have something called “TOP CONSENSUS PICKS”. I cross compare the two sources and what ever game/pick is matched highest across sites is the game that is the consensus or bet of the day for this theory/play. I am looking for a third source to use when cross comparing and will update the equation when I decide on something I like. I think three sources will allow for a diversification of biased risk analysis and should provide a clear example of the consensus across the days wagers.
Also please remember to read past posts and check out all the cool pages I am working. Let me know if there is anything you would like to see more off and I always love to hear from my readers. Holla if you need anything as some more goods are coming soon!
degenaMATT
In better news and in the spirit of trying to never disappoint I have found another blog that seems to make sports predictions and good ones! Check out the NBA picks from Sunday (3 for 3 with a push good game us!)