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.