Have you ever had a friend or co-worker who enjoys making friendly bets to Self improve?
For instance, you could bet on losing X amount of weight this month?
Last year, I made a similar bet to gain some weight (I'm very thin). So in my case my friend was also thin so we make a Bet to reach some Amount of weight before the end of the month. The bet wasn't a big deal it was only to buy a full meal for the other person just in case of not meet the expected weight. For example If my friend don't reach the expected weight and I reach it, then my friend should pay my meal. I that occasion we both reach the the expected weight and none of us need to pay the other person meal.
Do you have some similar story?, please share it, i would like to read it.
This may not be a typical sports or casino topic, but I think self-improvement deserves some attention.
Another question: What do you think would be a fun and effective self-improvement challenge we could all try?
For example, how about a challenge to do 50 push-ups a day for a month? Would you bet on yourself to complete it?
Well, such bets as this (I would say) are not for really serious and busy people, I myself have once tried betting to do a certain amount of push-ups every day, and I did it the first day, but as from the second day, I have completely forgotten about the bet, I only remembered after about a week later, I was very disappointed but on the other hand, I did not blame myself much because aside the time I spend online, I am always physically busy with alot of things, and thank goodness I did not enter this bet with anyone, so, there wasn't anyone to pay anything to except myself for not completing the planned push-ups.
Betting on self improvement stuffs is good, it's fun, and to be honest with you, I wouldn't consider this to be gambling, it's not gambling because that bet only acts as an encourager for you to try to do that which helps you improve on yourself.
So, I am not against bets like this, but like I said, I do not consider it's as part of gambling.
Very well said because push up have to do with endurance to Carry your body wait for a long number of times, and the ability to do push up is based on consistency, that is to say that for someone who have a 100 days straight up push up training, he will have more endurance to do push up than someone who hasn't being doing push up at all, so for one to make a bet with such physical strength something you must have gone through the same level of training and also feed on same dient for a while before being out together to carry on on such an excess challenge.
It's will totally be out of place for co work to engage in such a bet because the level of mr A push up strength won't be same as Mr B and that will affect the outcome of such a game, although if the bet is just for fun, then that is acceptable for co worker to encourage each other to do some exercises, and being motivated with a little token, but it shouldn't become a habit to bet on such self improving activities such as push up, jogging and the rest of what have you.
I have seen few co workers in groups organizing excesses for themselves most especially on weekends when they are off from work, but betting with in themselves have not been something that I noticed a lot of times,.
