Breaking the Habit of Second Guessing.

Reply #10

rdgrnr — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 04:54:23 GMT

sometimes you just got to walk away and get a hot cup of tea big glass of whiskey, take a deep breath and start again.

Reply #9

garyo1954 — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 06:50:14 GMT

Would love to find an answer to that one, Perdue. Assertive people make a decision, right or wrong, and go with the best information they have at the time. Football coaches call the play based on the information they have and......okay, some wake Monday morning regretting it. In baseball, and every other sport known to mankind, you play the percentages.

Making decisions based on the information available is the best any of us can do. Then we live with the outcome. May not be pretty, but think... [ More ]

Reply #8

iwillcya1 — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 20:49:07 GMT

Ahhh the old 2nd guessing gets ya everytime! Can't tell ya how many times I have

chosen numbers to play in Pick 3 made the bet not won then the next day pick #s

again but not play then #s I choose would have won had I played them. One week

ago I was testing an idea wheeled 8#s in the Pick 4 but didn't play them had I

played them I would have won $10,000 as two out of those 3 days of testing I had them

in exact order so had I played them straight could have been up $10 grand in 3 d... [ More ]

Reply #7

S157855 — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 04:44:35 GMT

Follow your habits... If your first guess turned out to be correct more than your second guess, then keep the first one...

I once wrote all 49 numbers (classic) on a peice of paper, started marking out the ones i believed wouldnt play that night. For some reason out of 29 numbers 17, 18, 19 were circled on my paper (apposed to X'd out). Those 3 numbers just stood out to me, but i second guessed, figuring since they were back to back they wouldnt play... That nights draw was 12 17 18 19 2... [ More ]

Reply #6

ameriken — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 02:10:55 GMT

Very often my second guess turned out to be the correct guess.

Reply #5

Feisty1 — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 22:23:57 GMT

If you're just doing workouts with pen and paper/computer, and not putting any money down, then run both scenarios or more and see which one wins out (performs best). If you are ready to spend big bucks, then I like the walk away, have tea, breathe deeply (I'll add meditate a little) and come back to it bit.

Good Luck!

P.S. keep in mind that when it comes time to put money on those ideas, you're ALWAYS going to second, third and fourth guess.

Reply #4

joker17 — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 22:07:36 GMT

Have you tried third guessing

Reply #3

RJOh — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 19:48:57 GMT

If you're second guessing yourself then you haven't done enough research to have faith in your first guess. First guesses aren't going to always be right but if you've done the research to support it then you are going be satisfied with it even when it's wrong.

Reply #2

sully16 — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 19:17:18 GMT

sometimes you just got to walk away and get a hot cup of tea, take a deep breath and start again.

Reply #1

GASMETERGUY — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 18:32:10 GMT

Begin tracking the filters. How often does Filter 1 occur? Filter 2? And so on. You might see a pattern develop which will help determine which filters to turn on and which to leave off.

Breaking the Habit of Second Guessing.

PERDUE — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 16:52:29 GMT

Looking for helpful tips to break the habit of second guessing myself when filtering lottery numbers.