Sports gambling has become a very popular hobby in both United States and throughout the World. Everyone has the sport they like to bet on most. In the United States, football is extremely popular. However, millions of people bet on baseball, basketball and hockey as well. Throughout the World, tennis and rugby are more popular.No matter what sport you are betting on, it is important to be smart and bet objectively. For most people, this is not possible when they are betting for their favorite team. This is the most common mistake people make and it causes millions of people to lose bets every year.You would think that betting on your favorite team would be easy because you know them the best. This should be the case if people could not allow their bias for a particular team to creep into their betting decision. However, not many people are able to do this. A good rule to follow is that if you are unwilling to bet against your favorite team, you should not bet for them either.This is smart because as a fan, you should have a good idea when they will struggle and possibly lose a game. If you are unwilling to place a bet for them to lose, you are not betting objectively.The best strategy to use when placing bet is to never bet unless you can explain why you made that selection. This is only possible after you do research. You should look up injury reports, team records, home and away records among other facts. Once you do this, you will have a better idea how the game will go and you will be able to make a more informed decision.

Are you looking for quick-fix solutions to change management? Do you want to wire your employees positively for change? As a facilitator I have a reasonably varied insight to the ways managers try to create change. Evidence abounds of the conventional approach which attempts to create fast change driven by the market or stakeholder demands, but there is a more recent emerging trend to drive change deeply into the core beliefs of employees.The former approach is based upon one change at a time, and is usually a knee-jerk type reaction aimed at moving from the current situation to a desired future scenario. The expectation is that the new state will be quick to create, and be as steady as the last.There is far less evidence of the emerging latter approach, but it does seem to be delivering much higher value, on two counts. The first is that the newly created state is longer lasting, and the second is that people are much better able to accept and indeed champion future changes. This emerging trend makes absolute sense to anyone in business for the long term, because nothing is as safe a bet as the future will continue to require people to change.The more we observe these approaches to change the more we see the former conventional approach reflected widely in society. If you take a look around you will observe people everywhere looking for instant gratification of one sort or another. There seems to be a growing obsession in society at large for instant payback. Notice how advertising is changing. We have faster moving images and sound bites hypnotising us into brand loyalty. Soap operas and comedy serials move faster these days pushing shorter bursts of multiple scenarios onto our screens. Product life-cycles are shortening as consumers demand new and different functionality from their gadgets. Anyone who can keep up with fashion is probably earning much more than they need.Notice also the unprecedented rise in the number of places where you can gamble. Walk down any suburban high street or shopping area and you will see that betting shops now appear in clusters. Count the number of gaming websites, scratch-cards, lotto tickets and competitions, and win yourself an ipod if you get within 200 of the actual figure. I don’t know anyone who is financially well-off who gambles in the hope of making more money. Maybe this is because few people get rich by gambling, and history shows that those who beat the odds and are lucky enough to win have difficulty managing their finances, and often end up losing everything in a short space of time. People who gamble are usually poorer than they want to be, whilst the professional gambler likes a little more control over the odds and is more likely to invest in the stock market.There are more gurus giving us the secrets of wealth creation, and they are drawing larger audiences of people who want to be saved from the labour of working it out for themselves. Make me rich, make me thin, make me attractive, make me sexy and make me happy. It’s as though people are giving up on themselves and looking elsewhere for their instant gratification.Organisations also seek instant gratification. They want an instant return on their investment. This is to be expected if you are buying raw materials, or new technology, but less likely in the change stakes. Yet this doesn’t seem to prevent some companies from ‘sheep-dipping’ people in the hope that large scale behaviour change will follow. It rarely does. For this you need to bite the bullet and take a longer term view, so that change can become an integral part of what people do every day. The next change will not be so easy to predict, so when it arrives on your doorstep you need to act quickly. If your people are wired positively for change you will be able to respond in good time. However, if they have just gotten used to the last change then you are probably going to sheep-dip once again.When it comes to equipping people with skills, there is no skill in greater demand than the ability to embrace and adapt positively to change. This fact alone is responsible for the growth in courses which challenge the norms which employees and managers operate from, and encourage more creative idea generation. But it is early days yet. Many blue chip employers are not getting this message on their radar. Many are actively filtering it out and staying with convention. Does this mean they prefer to keep their employees in the dark? What are they worried about? If employees end up thinking smarter might they use their newfound wisdom to find a more up-to-date company to work for? Perhaps one which knows how to tap into their true potential and provide a real stretch and challenge to their capability?

Everyday I here of compulsive gamblers who are continuing to gamble even though they have tried one recovery program or another. This is a story of a compulsive gambler named Robert who relapsed over and over again until he found the right recovery program.Robert a compulsive gambler from the United States relapsed more then ten times in the last three years. He continues to search for a stop gambling recovery program.He questioned what made him go back to the casino after he abstained for at least three weeks or more? One day he realized that the gambling establishment’s use of subtle subliminal advertising was what brought him back time and time again. This was a major break through for Robert. Understanding this helped him to break his negative repetitive pattern.He remembers driving to work at eight in the morning. The news came on and announced there was a hundred thousand dollar winner last night at the Casino. Then they continued to talk about it and continuously repeat the words “someone has to win maybe that would be you.” That’s all Robert needed to hear. He called in sick and headed straight to the casino. He arrived and two hours later he lost a thousand dollars. He was depressed and very emotional. He had no idea how this happened again.It’s unfortunate but he continued to go down a self destructive path that seems impossible for him to ever escape from. Besides the mounting debt, his self esteem decreased as each day passed. Robert was trapped. He knows gambling is no good for himI have known gamblers to put thousands of dollars in one slot machine believing it will turn around. It’s doesn’t happen often, but just suppose the gambler hits for five thousand dollars. At that moment in time, the gambler feels great. He now believes there’s nothing they can’t do. It doesn’t matter if they sat at that slot machine for five hours. Then with out realizing it a few hours later they lost all the money they had just won. After leaving they would head home and ask themselves how? Robert had done this hundreds of times only to go back again and again.Robert was determined to stop gambling but he kept asking himself “How did this happen again? He once stopped for three months. During this period he was more financially sound and more relaxed and very content with his family. Out of nowhere he received a four hundred dollar gift certificate to the gift shop at the local gambling establishment Christmas holiday. When he opened it, it made his day. He wanted to buy his wife something nice. She was very proud of him and believed he was on the road to recovery. With out telling his wife, Robert jumped in the car and head to the gambling establishment. As he arrived, he had the biggest adrenaline rush. He parked his car and headed directly to the gift shop and purchased a nice bracelet. As he headed out the door and back to his car he thought maybe just one bet. He fought with himself for about five minutes which seemed like hours. He went back in and the next thing he realized he lost over two thousand dollars.Robert decided it was time to stop. He was so ashamed of himself. He was now determined to stop. He found a self help manual and a private chat room and the rest is one day at a time. He’s learned to confront these triggers and move forward. The I Stopped Gambling website helped him to move forward and deal with his gambling addiction head on.