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[W866]Winning At A Losing Game

by Rami Doleh, Ram

Online business made things even easier, but people confused the easiness of getting into business with the easiness of achieving results. Since it is easy to establish a business in a day or two, even within few minutes, people thought that they should achieve results within the same timeframe.

Scam marketers enforced this false belief even further by bombarding the internet with their false promises about achieving wealth within days. Even for those who know the truth, they still have this vision at the back of their heads that can confuse them and distract them each time this vision comes forward.

Most online marketers get into the business while they are either still working at their day jobs or while they are still students. Therefore, the time allocated for their online business is limited. Nevertheless, they allocate a specific time that they discipline themselves to adhere to regardless of any distraction.

Actually this is the right thing to do if anybody wants to succeed in online business. Specific daily goals are set that needs to be done during the limited daily time allocated for their business. Now here comes the challenge;

Online marketers who know what they are in for and who are not fooling themselves about achieving financial freedom within a couple of weeks, work month after month motivated by their ability to discipline themselves and by other results such as number of back links, increased traffic to their website, free trial subscribers, members of their newsletter, …etc.

With all this struggling, many online marketers – if not all – face a period of time when their lives become so busy that they find it extremely hard to achieve their daily targets. This is when many might think that they do not have the time anymore to run the business. Actually this is the right time to test their discipline, but at the same time they should not bang their heads against the wall.

When our lives get hectic for whatever reason, then simply what we need to do is to adjust our targets to accommodate the current situation. Accordingly we should realize that our short, medium and long term goals are going to be affected.

Therefore, to overcome this challenging period and overcome the accompanying psychological trap, do not take drastic measures about your online business. What you need to do is measure your current situation carefully and re-evaluate the time that you can allocate for your online business on daily basis. If you are not able to allocate hours on daily basis then try to do it on weekly basis. Then what you need to do is set up you daily or weekly targets.

This way you can keep running your business on slow mode until this hectic period is over. When it is over then you can switch back to your original work plan. This way you will stress yourself out about not being able to run your online business, and you will not regret a lifetime decision that was caused only by a momentary situation.

If you follow this tactic you will be able to win a battle that most new internet marketers lose, and you will be able to keep running your online business without having to quit.

Blackjack is one of the most popular card games in the world. One of the reasons for its great popularity is that it is one of the easiest card games to learn and play. It is far less complicated than are many other card games such as poker, since blackjack has no combinations to memorize.
The object of the game is simple; to get the sum of your two cards at or as close as possible to 21. When the value of your cards exceeds 21, you have lost the game.

Players will receive two cards once the players look at their cards, they must determine if they want to "stand" or "hit". Stand means that the player believe that they are close enough to 21 and will stay where they are. If the player says "hit", the player believes that they need more cards to get to 21.

Players may continue to draw until they exceed 21; at which point they have lost, or when they feel they are close enough to 21 and choose to stand. At this point, the players show their cards and the player closest to 21 wins.

As simple as blackjack is, there are still some strategies which can help you to gain an edge over other players.

Here's a list of some tips that players may find helpful:

1. If a player is at 17 or higher, it is always better to stand. However, if the player is between 13 and 16 with the dealer's card being 6 or lower, it is best to stand; but if the dealer's card is 7 or higher, it is a better idea to hit instead.

The idea behind this is that if the dealer's card is 6 or lower, the dealer may take another card, the assumption should be that the dealer's face down card is a ten. Players will then make the assumption that the dealer is banking on a bust and will then tend to stand at a lower number.
Players should always assume that the dealer's down card is 10.

2. If a player has eights or aces, they are better off splitting them, no matter what the dealer's showing card happens to be.

3. A player should not split 10s. The odds of going bust are great in this situation.

4. If the dealer is showing 4, 5 or 6, it's better for players to stand on a hard 12; or to hit if the dealer is showing a 2, a 3 or a 7 or higher.

5. Players should remember to never split fours, fives and face cards.

Blackjack is indeed a game of chance, but following these tips can give you an edge.

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