TommyB's Accountability Thread
I am a professional NL Cash game pro who has been lacking motivation to grind recently. The purpose of this blog is to make sure I follow the schedule that I built for myself.
I do not have a profit, win rate, or stake level goal, my only goal is to stick to this schedule.
This schedule includes:
8 hours of poker every Monday-Thursday
5 Workouts and stretching routines / week
Cold Showers
Meditation, reading, and studying mandarin
Additionally I clean my house weekly on the weekends. The weekends are for socializing, in the event that I do not have plans and am sitting alone at home I will follow the Friday schedule omitting the gym.
Upon violation of the schedule I will update this thread and pay the first to comment.
I return from a vacation on Monday so the schedule will be in effect starting Tuesday. Wish me luck
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I am pleased to report that I have stuck to my new years resolution of focusing more on my social life. While this shift in focus is certainly a positive change, it has not come without its difficulties.
The
tropical storm brewing in the nearby ocean
did in fact make landfall on my island, however, she was not willing to pursue anything serious with me and the arrangement quickly fizzled out. I felt heartbroken but after the dust settled I got on Hinge in search for a more feasible candidate.
I have had issues in the past where dating apps made me extremely apathetic towards poker to the point that I could not bear to play for an hour straight without looking to see if had I recieved any new matches or messages. Thankfully this is not the case anymore and I feel more jaded when it comes to texting women so I can grind my volume without issue.
During this time I spawned a wave of 3 hinge dates, one of which was escalating promisingly but suddenly during a moment post nut clarity I realized that she was not the one for me. I ended things and while that was for the better it was still a painful task because I knew she would be unhappy.
Approaching the summer I spawned a second hinge wave of 7 hinge dates. I was overhelmed. One of them interestingly enough was my fwb from 2 years ago but she was not interested in re-igniting a romance with me. One of them wasn't into me, one of them I wasn't into, and one of them didn't even show up. Two of them were good first dates and perhaps worth a second date but neither parties interest was high enough to get the ball rolling. The final girl was the strongest dating app candidate I've had in 4 years. The text message banter with her was unreal and the chemistry on the first date was undeniable. However, despite further banter following the first date, when I reached out for a second date I never recieved a response.
Growth is not without struggle and I am not one to back down. Today I started swiping again and hopefully this wave will be the last for at least a very long time. Ultimately when my love life stablizes I will shift my focus back to my aspirations of becoming an elite poker player and this thread will transform into a poker blog about poker instead of a poker blog about girls.
Thank you for reading.
Well done
Grind to live > live to grind
