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Horse
Racing Gold
Success and Luck
Ruling out pure gambling like lotteries, dice, bingo, etc. - what's called "luck" or "lucky" is usually: Obvious success where the reasons for that success are not evident.
I'd go further and agree with some others - that being lucky also contains an element of the relative ease of that success and how fast it comes.
Instant gratification is what people really desire. Having things like . . .
- winners at the track
- money
- the admiration of others
. . . come to them easily with little or no effort on their part - that's what most would call being lucky.That's often how we view others that we call "lucky" - that good things just flow to them naturally without them seemingly even trying very hard to get these things.
But then there is the other camp - those that say, "You make your own luck. Luck is nothing more than the results of lots and lots of hard work and effort put in before the 'lucky' results show themselves."
This is a millennia old style of thinking that comes from the Old Testament - from Genesis I believe, where there is a statement that has profoundly affected all western thought since - (to paraphrase): 'By the sweat of thy brow shall thee earn thy daily bread.'
Doesn't the truth, as usual, lies somewhere in between?
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An important question - one of the most important any of us will ever ask ourselves . . .
Is there a means to achieve success (and here we are specifically - though not exclusively - concerned with race betting profits) that doesn't require us to be "beasts of burden" toiling our lives away to the bitter end? But also - a way that doesn't rely on pure providence and windfall strokes of fortune that are unrelated to our own efforts?
One part of our basic betting philosophy here at Horse Racing Gold is that players must put themselves in a position to have a chance at the very good payoffs.
Can we then also put ourselves in the path of luck - with only a relatively small effort on our part - and let each of the successive smaller instances of luck catapult us into a permanent pattern of success?
The answer is yes. Without doubt, success at race betting (or almost anything) can be fairly easily achieved. It won't often be an overnight miracle, but neither need it be a multi-year struggle.
Any attack on success - any wooing of Lady Luck - needs to be broken down into 4 steps or categories:
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There are the things that we need to do - |
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There are the things that we need to stop doing - |
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There are the skills we need to have, or cultivate - and |
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There are the beliefs we need to have, or cultivate. |
I'll address each of those above - in order - below . . .
1. There are,
of course, things that we must do on a day-to-day basis
in our attempts at success: the
record keeping, the study, the
diligence - all the pragmatics of any
successful endeavor. This
falls under the old category of,
"Dotting your i's and crossing
your t's."
2. Then there the
things we shouldn't do. This second part is the
killer - these are the self-defeating things that
we do habitually
and that most often sabotage any chance at real and
glorious
success. Among these are:
- Blaming others for our own failures and weaknesses
- Not learning from our failures - thus repeating them again
- Letting failures affect our self-confidence, or worse,
our sense of self-worth
- On the other end of this scale is having too much
unfounded confidence that causes entrenchment in
one's own little rut and precludes true open-mindedness.
3. We need to have
the skill - verging on art - to recognize those things
which are truly advantageous to the gaining of our
goals. We need
to be able to distinguish between what is
efficient for our
purposes, and what isn't.
4. There needs to be
a belief: That the goal can be gained -
that
the gaining of the goal does not require great
struggle - that
we only need a strong desire and a strong will to
achieve it - that
it can then be turned over to the subconscious
- that we are
thereby assured of attaining our goal, or even
exceeding it.
Okay - so how does all this relate to our immediate concern for race betting profits?
For brevity's sake, I'll just "list" a few points below. And please remember, I am not coming from a place of absolute authority here. I am passing on things that I have learned and things that I do. They work for me. Adjust and interpret as you see best fit for you . . .
For #1 above:
Keep decent records - just no way around it. Even if you subscribe to a service like Horse Racing Gold, keep records on what and how we do. Find the profit points - cull the weak tracks and less productive bets, concentrate on only the best producers.
Continue to study handicapping books. Choose from the best authors and even then take from them only what seems to make sense - what "feels" right to you.
Treat race betting with the seriousness you'd treat your "other" businesses or jobs.
For #2 above:
Don't blame jockeys - though they occasionally turn in terrible performances
Don't blame bad racing "luck" - though it can sometimes rear its ugly head to snatch away profits that were seemingly "in the bag."
Don't blame yourself - though you might have just committed a costly error.
- Rather, note each of these incidents- mentally, or better yet in a notebook kept specifically for this purpose. Little by little you can wean yourself away from the emotional satisfaction of venting your anger and disappointment on others - on "outside" causes. This way, the blaming and energy draining "bitching and moaning" will be transmuted into a simple, positive, and calm noting of facts.
For #3 above:
An oft-used quote applies here, "Don't work harder - work smarter." Narrow the focus without going all the way to tunnel-vision. Become expert in a more refined niche - take on two or three tracks only, or one or two circuits and/or specific kinds of races and wagers.
Learn to put things into logical groupings and then distinguish and apply priorities to them.
For #4 above:
The belief that success can be yours - is often an elusive one. In race betting - more than almost any other venture - nagging doubts can persist. This is caused by the volatile up-and-down nature of betting. One day nothing can go wrong - the next nothing can go right. One week you make thousands - the next you can't buy a winner. It leads to frustration and diminishes the confidence that it can actually be done at a high level of consistency and profit.
The absolute truth is - we possess the power to accomplish anything we can imagine!
Here are a few facts about the unlimited power of our brain that have been verified in the latest research conducted by Computational Neuroscientists:
"A typical human brain performs a million billion computing operations per second - about 10 million times as many as the world's fastest super computer."
"A single human brain is 1000 times as powerful as all the electronic computers on earth put together!"
"The brain is so massively complex that the only outer-world system that comes anywhere near to matching it in number of connections is the world-wide telephone system."
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For those of you who have done extensive research on your own handicapping, or that of others - you know how important pattern recognition is. Just imagine the potential - if we could only utilize an even slightly larger percentage of our brain.
Yet, even though the power and ability of our brains is practically limitless, there is a serious flaw. We don't seem to have access to that awesome power. We find it difficult in the extreme to tap into that incredible ultra-computer we have sitting on top of our shoulders.
It has been said that we only use 10% of our brain's abilities. Actually that is a monstrous over-estimate. We haven't even touched its possibilities. Those tremendous abilities mostly seem to be wasted - even to the point of the conscious mind thwarting its own purported goals and squelching it's own promise.
Use all the mental powers you have on this game - and you'll be surprised just how lucky you start to get!
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