In our most recent article, Jackpot Capital spoke about the challenge presented to casinos, both online and land-based, by the advent and fast growth of sweepstakes casinos. Toward the end of the article, we mentioned how the articles we publish often give gamers life hacks such as setting reasonable time and money limits on gaming and using money saved not travelling to a land-based casinos to help pay for a “real vacation”.
In this article, we would like to present as many great life hacks as we can. The life hacks we will present here are intended to give gamers direction toward improving themselves. This will inevitably lead to sounder and more controlled online casino gaming and, of course, set gamers on a great life path in general.
Be Honest with Yourself
This may be the single key to overall happiness. It involves all aspects of life. We have said this before when talking about time and money budgets for gaming. It also applies to what you eat, when you drink alcohol, how well you control your emotions and so many other aspects of daily life.
Pursue Fun for Its Own Sake
Online casino gaming is meant to provide an outlet for great fun. We also fully recognize that online casino gaming here at Jackpot Capital should be only one of many ways gamers pursue fun for its own sake.
We also know that what one person considers fun another person may not like at all. So, we urge you to look inwards and honestly describe to yourself what you like to do for fun and then pursue that choice.
Move
One of the drawbacks of casino gaming in general is that it is a sedentary activity. So are reading, listening to music, watching or streaming movies and shows, keeping a journal, and many other activities.
We have long suggested to gamers to stand and walk around every 15-30 minutes while gaming. The same applies to all sedentary activities. It is important to move around. It stretches your long muscles and helps your heart. In the 19th century, taking a walk in the morning was called one’s “morning constitution”. The use of that word has changed but talking a walk in the morning is still a good practice. It is a life hack because it tends to make people healthier and happier.
Laugh
Social media has brought us the LOL signature. That means alternatively “laugh out loud” or “lots of luck”. There is a reason why Reader’s Digest has for decades had a section called “laughter is the best medicine”. Patch Adams, of whom a great movie was made, proved that belly laughing was a big contributor to people getting better.
Laughing is best when you do it with other people. Get together with friends to go to a comedy performance or stream something alongside your most significant other and encourage deep laughter. Laughing is so important that people who laugh easily tend to be happier and healthier, better adjusted, a lot less likely to experience road rage, and so on.
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Be Optimistic
The sub-category is to be realistic. We covered being realistic at the beginning as being honest with yourself is an aspect of being realistic. Optimism is a major positive because it prevents despair.
Optimism means that, if you have played online casino games and have lost, you feel that the next time you might win. In any case, if you have budgeted correctly, you can see the money you lost this time as the cost of fun and entertainment.
Optimism also works well when you are ill, when you have been injured, or simply when the vicissitudes of life have thrown snake-eyes in your direction. An optimistic person will shrug off a bad beat while a pessimistic person will stew over the inevitable bad beat.
Another aspect of optimism is that optimistic people tend to not complain. Complaining takes a lot of emotional energy from people and that emotional energy is needed to pursue happiness. Complainers are not happy.
During the Covid 19 crisis, a lot of people became complainers, generally against others. This was one of the sad aspects of the Covid 19 pandemic.
Have a Lot of Friends
Social camaraderie is very important to one’s overall happiness. The famous baseball player, Ty Cobb, who had the reputation as a mean and generally bad person, said soon before he passed away that if he had the chance to do it all over again, he would have had more friends.
Cobb’s bad reputation was such that everyone thought of him as the mean ogre but a clip at Prager University argued that he was grossly misunderstood. What Cobb failed to do was to cultivate friendships and the result was a horrible reputation.
Be Thankful
The Thanksgiving holiday has taken a bad rap recently as politics has become more divisive and social cohesion has frazzled. Being thankful is a huge positive. The famous political conservative, William F. Buckley, wrote a short book called “On Gratitude”. Certainly, he was not everyone’s cup of tea politically but he saw himself as a social liberal in most cases.
Be Careful about How You Compare Yourself and Others
Someone may be a good pianist but far from great. It would be a mistake to compare that person to a better pianist. The same applies to every profession. The same applies to people in general. A person who tells stories well is simply a person who tells stories well.
William Faulkner was a great novelist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature some 70 years ago. He was southerner who lived during the worst times for black Americans especially in the American south. Faulkner was not a rabid racist. He portrayed blacks as honestly as he could. He never compared himself to other writers. He saw himself as a citizen of Mississippi who wrote books.
Be Open to New Ideas
This one is really hard for a lot of people. But people being open to new ideas has long been the only way society has grown socially and politically. Freedom and individual liberty were once radical ideas.
At Jackpot Capital online casino, we encourage gamers to play all of our games. Now, we are realistic here at Jackpot Capital and we know that playing all of our 300 or so games will not make the world better. But it will open avenues of imagination for gamers.
Opening avenues of imagination formally and purposefully is a major life hack. The boys whose story was told in the movie October Sky were from coal mining country. They had their horizons expanded by a teacher. One of them taught himself higher mathematics and solved a rocket problem. He later worked in the rocket division at NASA.
Have Fun Whenever the Opportunity Arises
People can have fun every day. Online casino gaming can be one way you can have fun. We encourage gamers to play frequently but in short sessions. After all, Jackpot Capital is here to stay so there is no reason to play for hours on end.
And, when you finish a gaming session, pursue fun in other ways. There are so many ways to have fun. One of them is by joining an online casino. So, may we invite you to…
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