Good from bad

11/04/2009 | By More

As I’ve mentioned before, having a positive outlook on things is always beneficial. When I was young, I used to think this was a motivational trick, but after a few years it began to dawn on me that always having a positive outlook was a useful trick. You tend to find in life that unexpected things happen for good and bad quite often. If you aren’t ready for the upside you will often miss it. Friday and Saturday was a classic example!

While I’m lucky in some things, I’m not in others. With a day off yesterday I took the children swimming. Near the end of the session I decided to nip into the sauna. After I had warmed up, I stood up and…………………. the next thing I knew I was flat on my back half in the sauna and half out the sauna. I’m still not sure what happened, but after laying in stunned silence for a short period of time one thing I did realise was that several things hurt. During my journey out of the sauna, I  had successfully slammed my back on one of the benches, causing extensive bruising, ripped off a toe nail and had put out my hand to halt my fall.  This successfully bent my fingers back and caused me to tear most of the supporting muscles in my hand. While my back is intact, my right hand is a write-off for the moment, as well as being double its normal size. So that’s the bad, where is the good?

Last night I really could not get comfortable in bed and spent most of the night trying not to aggravate my wounds. I did manage to get some sleep but by 5 AM I was fed up trying to get comfortable and decided to come downstairs. I switched on my PC and thought I would have a nose out what’s going on in Australia. Before long I was busy trading, having changed my mouse right-handed to left-handed, and actually really enjoyed it. By the time the rest of the family had woken up I had already got through a very successful trading session. Had it not been for my accident I probably never would have bothered getting up in the early hours to try the Australian racing. As it is, as long as I don’t mess up this afternoon I should have a bumper day. Next week I’ll try and avoid the pain in the first place and just go for the gain instead!

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I left a good job in the consumer technology industry to go a trade on Betfair for a living way back in June 2000. I've been here ever since pushing very boundaries of what's possible on betting exchanges and loved every minute of it.

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