I'm guilty!....Concentrating heavily has it tolls. What reflection does this mean personally? For those of you gamblers who are similar in mental makeup to this individual, I can say, you've done the same. We get to thinking about different tactics for our respective games over a period of days and shut out life in general. We feel mentally drained at the end of our daily sessions; we start out with a fairly clear notion of how we want to approach the numbers; we scrap ideas for better ones then return to the deletes still bobbing for a hit; get fatigued and frustrated, gets away for a few moments to handle life's necessities; hit the books again to fry some more digits; begin to hate those buggers but decides that the numerics are not the problem, that it is internal to yourself; stretches and yawns then lets the ego or self take over for a spell; suddenly the entire mind gets into a haze of non-cooperation--hell fire and damnation...not a way to reach those pesky math answers that we seek; finally, we have reached a tentative solution, posted our results for the world to see; do everything right except the date as in my case---the day or the dates get stuck on a Wednsday or the dates are the same for a few days until we or someone else makes a kindly remark. Buallah, it's Wednsday finally, after three days! Bet that sounds familiar, doesn't it? We could go on and on and on about this particular item but those of you who know would laugh to yourself and at yourself. The mental exercise of concentration is a norm of self-hypnosis; it won't harm you in any way shape or norm but when it becomes automatic (you start doing this without noticing) there is a tendency to lose time in some norm if you are truly geared to thinking about a particular thing or item. Don't get upset with this act of self, it is putting you in a catagory with the worlds best thinkers who have learned to concentrate and accomplish marvelous things.

  The pick three game has a tendency to not follow thru on a "pre-paid" trail for the next days play, when the false laid trail gets a numbers jam, like in a printer paper jam, you would shut the *@#!!+&% off, remove the mess, reset the culpret and resume your business at hand or leave the room. Now's the time for a good heart to heart mental talk with yourself about the bloated numbers that just aren't there. The outcome is to use another approach even if it makes no critical sense, do it anyway, a mental jam is generally the problem but not always!

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