{"id":7443,"date":"2022-10-31T10:00:04","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T10:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/?p=7443"},"modified":"2023-09-25T10:45:12","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T09:45:12","slug":"how-to-avoid-the-matched-betting-fomo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/matched-betting\/how-to-avoid-the-matched-betting-fomo\/","title":{"rendered":"How to avoid the matched betting FOMO!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you have the Fear Of Missing Out? Do you find yourself scrambling and rushing to do every possible offer that comes up? It is taking over your life? Do you get moody when you miss an offer?<\/p>\n

This is a perfectly normal feeling. Especially at the start of matched betting and you can\u2019t believe your eyes that the concept actually works! You want to make as much as you humanly can.<\/p>\n

But the truth is, it shouldn\u2019t be this way. Matched betting<\/a> is here to help us in our day to day lives and give us a bit of an income boost in order to take some stress away. Not to add to it. It is absolutely vital to find that balance and to create that routine where we don\u2019t feel like we need to be glued to our phone every possible second of the day.<\/p>\n

Having a routine helps. Check the offers in the morning and perhaps during your lunch hour and in the evening when you get home from work. Give yourself a set time each day to do this and place\/check your bets. Don\u2019t check the offers outside of these days to give yourself the right balance. Offers don\u2019t disappear as quickly as you think, unless it\u2019s perhaps a price boost. But it\u2019s not the end of the world if you miss them.<\/p>\n

Comparing your profits with other members is also not advised. There are so many variables involved that it\u2019s just impossible to do a comparison. Time, bankroll, offers etc. Someone working a full time job and doing matched betting very part time and lower bankroll will have very different profits to the person who works part time and able to put in more time and funds. It\u2019s hard to do, I know, but focus on your own circumstances and look at the profits positively with gratitude and how much it\u2019s helped you personally rather than compare how well you did versus someone else. You still have more than you did before. So no matter what, you\u2019re on the up!<\/p>\n

Take a break sometimes. It\u2019s perfectly ok to purposely not do an offer because you want to just take a break and do something else. Don\u2019t feel bad or guilty about that. Not all value in life is in the form of money. Sometimes, clearing your mind and putting your phone away is what\u2019s needed and make sure you do this without any guilt. More offers will be back the next time so you can always pick it back up again. Too much of anything is never good so take some time for yourself if you feel like you need it.<\/p>\n

So if you missed an offer, so what?! Ignore that FOMO feeling and know that you benefitted elsewhere and not all value is profit related.<\/p>\n

All of us at OddsMonkey will be here to help<\/a><\/strong> you when you\u2019re ready to jump back in!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do you have the Fear Of Missing Out? Do you find yourself scrambling and rushing to do every possible offer that comes up? It is taking over your life? Do you get moody when you miss an offer? This is a perfectly normal feeling. Especially at the start of matched betting and you can\u2019t believe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":""},"categories":[79,61],"tags":[75],"yst_prominent_words":[1508,113,3618,8528,3432,2751,2756,2920,6250,2757,109,6722,200,151,251,2687,6836],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7443"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7443"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7445,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7443\/revisions\/7445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7443"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=7443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}