Poker is hard! A honest insight on my journey to become a poker pro. Discussions desired!

Hello Everyone

With this thread I want to share my hopefully successful poker journey.
I try to be totally transparent about how things are going, how I feel and what my motivations are.
Also, I look for input from you guys and discussions about poker because I don't have anyone to discuss poker related topics with.

Some stuff about me:

I quit a well payed day job at the end of last year because I run out of motivation and started to feel burned out.
During the first month of inspiration taking I started playing online poker again for fun (did so for fun from time to time since I was 18).
I quickly realized how much fun I was having playing the game and thought about the possibility to give it a fair shot since I now have the time to study the game and put in the volume doing it full time.

So I decided to do that, bought an online subscription for study material and started digging through, while also grinding daily.
After 3 months full time studying and playing and things really not going my way I felt lost and hired a coach for an objective opinion on my game and my luck.
It turned out that I was a lot worse than I thought, that indeed I was not lucky and that my competition is a lot better than I expected.

Now 3 months later (6 months into poker), getting coached for about 10 hours a month, studying wider including different sites with study material, I see clear progress and the chance to actually make it.
I also did a lot of PT4 stats studies, fixed many holes in my game and kicked out zoom games because I currently can't beat that over any limit I tried (50NL - 500NL).
At the end of May things still are not going my way though and I consistently have red months online + live games (live mostly because of variance (If you want to know more, ask!)).

While I saw the progress in my game I did not see any progress considering my bankroll and I started looking for mental help books because I had a hard time handling several mental issues.
I found the book "The mental game of poker" and studied it during vacation. I must say I helps a lot so far.

As a next step I tried to make things more structured, playing only one limit for a month, having clear short and long term goals and measuring my performance in terms of how I play and not the monetary result.

Since June (so since 9 days now) I play 100NL non zoom tables only and have the following goals:

Short term:
For June, 50k hands at NL100, being up 1k (rakeback included) at the end of June, 5h hand review in PT4, session rating above 7 in average (1-10), play 3 days the leaderboard into top 5, deep review of interesting hands for 10h, study 20h

Mid term:
End of July, beating 100NL non zoom consistently
End of 2023, beating 200NL non zoom consistently

Long term:
End of 2024, beating 500NL non zoom consistently
End of 2025, playing 5kNL somewhat regularly

Maybe important:

I still have enough money to stay unemployed for quiet a while and would stop playing poker once I see that I am not making any progress anymore and that I still can't pay my bills from it.
So I accept that I will make less or even no money for a long starting period while it has to be worth it somewhen since I plan to pay my bills with poker in the future.
But for now I love the game, wake up motivated every morning, like the competitive environment and appreciated the freedom of self-employment.

I try to post an update weekly, including graphs and how I feel about it.

Thanks to all of you who support me on this journey.

Greetings
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