My Poker Journal

Goals from July 14 – July 20:
Contract Work:
Goal: 5 – 6 bouts
FAILED - 3.5 bouts, wasn't much to do fortunately

Poker:
Minimum – 2 hours of studying: 3 hours of live play (reserve library room for Tuesday)
Target – 3 hours of studying: 3 hours of live play
Stretch – 4 hours of studying: 6 hours of live play
STRETCH COMPLETE - 7.5 hours of studying; 5.5 hours of live play
Next I'll want to differentiate deep work studying and shallower studying like watching calls or low intensity hand reps

Exercise:
Minimum – 3 days/7 days
Target - 4/7
Stretch – 5/7
STRETCH COMPLETE

Poker Goals for Aug 11 - Sep 7 (4 weeks):

Live Play:
Minimum: 12 hours
Target: 24 hours
Stretch: 36 hours

Focused Studying:
Minimum: 12 hours
Target: 18 hours
Stretch: 24 hours

Casual Studying:
Minimum: 4 hours
Target: 8 hours
Stretch 12 hours

Goals for Aug 11 - Aug 17:
Contract Work:
Goal: 4 - 5 bouts - try having focused sessions for each task rather than 1.5 hour bouts per day

Poker Live Play:
Min: 3 hours
Target: 6 hours
Stretch: 9 hours

Poker Focused Studying:
Min: 1.5 hours
Target: 3 hours
Stretch: 4.5 hours

Poker Casual Studying:
Min: 1 hour
Target: 2 hours
Stretch: 3 hours

Gym:
Min: 3/7
Target: 4/7
Stretch: 5/7

Misc:
Write down daily highlight
make progress on 1 apt thing (utilities, bed, car, etc)

Goals from Aug 11 - Aug 17:
Contract Work:
Goal: 4 - 5 bouts - try having focused sessions for each task rather than 1.5 hour bouts per day
COMPLETE – 4 bouts

Poker Live Play:
Min: 3 hours
Target: 6 hours
Stretch: 9 hours
STRETCH COMPLETE – 11.5 hours

Poker Focused Studying:
Min: 1.5 hours
Target: 3 hours
Stretch: 4.5 hours
STRETCH COMPLETE – 10 hours

Poker Casual Studying:
Min: 1 hour
Target: 2 hours
Stretch: 3 hours
STRETCH COMPLETE – 4.75 hours

Gym:
Min: 3/7
Target: 4/7
Stretch: 5/7
STRETCH COMPLETE – 7/7

Misc:
Write down daily highlight
make progress on 1 apt thing (utilities, bed, car, etc)
COMPLETE – utilities done and daily highlights written

Goals for Aug 18 - Aug 24:
Contract Work:
Goal: 4 - 5 bouts - try having focused sessions for each task rather than 1.5 hour bouts per day

Poker Live Play:
Min: 3 hours
Target: 6 hours
Stretch: 9 hours

Poker Focused Studying:
Min: 1.5 hours
Target: 3 hours
Stretch: 4.5 hours

Poker Casual Studying:
Min: 1 hour
Target: 2 hours
Stretch: 3 hours

Gym:
Min: 3/7
Target: 4/7
Stretch: 5/7

Misc:
Write down daily highlight

Thanks for the support man!

Goals from Aug 18 - Aug 24:
Contract Work:
Goal: 4 - 5 bouts - try having focused sessions for each task rather than 1.5 hour bouts per day
COMPLETE - 5 bouts

Poker Live Play:
Min: 3 hours
Target: 6 hours
Stretch: 9 hours
MIN COMPLETE - 3.2 hours

Poker Focused Studying:
Min: 1.5 hours
Target: 3 hours
Stretch: 4.5 hours
MIN COMPLETE - 1.5 hours

Poker Casual Studying:
Min: 1 hour
Target: 2 hours
Stretch: 3 hours
MIN COMPLETE - 1 hour

Gym:
Min: 3/7
Target: 4/7
Stretch: 5/7
TARGET COMPLETE - 4/7

Misc:
Write down daily highlight
COMPLETE

This was a much slower week because contract work was heavier and I was visiting my sister in ohio this weekend

Goals for Aug 25 - Aug 31:
This week I'll likely hit minimum goals again because I'll be traveling this weekend to visit family in kentucky and contract work will be busy.

Contract Work:
Goal: 4 - 5 bouts

Poker Live Play:
Min: 3 hours
Target: 6 hours
Stretch: 9 hours

Poker Focused Studying:
Min: 1.5 hours
Target: 3 hours
Stretch: 4.5 hours

Poker Casual Studying:
Min: 1 hour
Target: 2 hours
Stretch: 3 hours

Gym:
Min: 3/7
Target: 4/7
Stretch: 5/7

Misc:
Write down daily highlight

Goals for Aug 25 - Aug 31:

Contract Work:
Goal: 4 - 5 bouts
GOAL COMPLETE

Poker Live Play:
Min: 3 hours
Target: 6 hours
Stretch: 9 hours
MIN COMPLETE – 3 hours

Poker Focused Studying:
Min: 1.5 hours
Target: 3 hours
Stretch: 4.5 hours
MIN COMPLETE – 1.5 hours

Poker Casual Studying:
Min: 1 hour
Target: 2 hours
Stretch: 3 hours
MIN COMPLETE – 1 hour

Gym:
Min: 3/7
Target: 4/7
Stretch: 5/7
TARGET COMPLETE – 4/7

Misc:
Write down daily highlight
COMPLETE

Goals for Sep 1 - 7:
I’m moving into my first apt this week! I also bought my first car. I’ll be spending a lot of time setting that up. I’m also driving to Ohio again this weekend. Honestly dreading having my weekend filled up again but I committed to going. There’s a significant difference in output when my weekend is empty. I’ll take this into account in planning future 4 week goals. Having 3 out of 4 weekends completely booked seems no bueno, especially with the apt and car purchase.
Also, next 4 week goal I want to include drilling as a goal.

Contract Work:
Goal: 4 - 5 bouts

Poker Live Play:
Min: 0 hours
Target: 3 hours
Stretch: 6 hours

Poker Focused Studying:
Min: 0 hours
Target: 1.5 hours
Stretch: 3 hours

Poker Casual Studying:
Min: 0 hour
Target: 1 hour
Stretch: 2 hours

Gym:
Min: 3/7
Target: 4/7
Stretch: 5/7

Misc:
Write down daily highlight
Do car repairs
Move into apartment

Goals from Sep 1 - 7:

Contract Work:
Goal: 4 - 5 bouts
FAILED – 3.5 bouts, didn’t have to do much but focus was bad

Poker Live Play:
Min: 0 hours
Target: 3 hours
Stretch: 6 hours
TARGET COMPLETE – 5 hours

Poker Focused Studying:
Min: 0 hours
Target: 1.5 hours
Stretch: 3 hours
MIN – 0 hours

Poker Casual Studying:
Min: 0 hour
Target: 1 hour
Stretch: 2 hours
MIN – 0.75 hours

Gym:
Min: 3/7
Target: 4/7
Stretch: 5/7
TARGET – 4/7

Misc:
Write down daily highlight
Do car repairs
Move into apartment
MIN – did most of the repairs, only 1 left that I’m midway through
Almost done moving into apt

Poker Goals from Aug 11 - Sep 7 (4 weeks):

Live Play:
Minimum: 12 hours
Target: 24 hours
Stretch: 36 hours
MIN – 22.5 hours

Focused Studying:
Minimum: 12 hours
Target: 18 hours
Stretch: 24 hours
MIN – 13 hours

Casual Studying:
Minimum: 4 hours
Target: 8 hours
Stretch 12 hours
MIN - 7.5 hours

not having many of my 3 of the 4 weekends available made it a lot tougher to hit my goals. Since my schedule will be much more volatile these upcoming weeks I won't do monthly goals

Goals for Monday 9/8:

Contract Work:
- Weekly Report
- Mail back laptop
- Start Live Ops
(do all this is one work bout)

Misc:
Min:
- Finish sanding headlights
- Laundry

Target:
- Min + the following
- order bathroom curtain and mat
- order more toiletries
- unpack rest of items

Stretch:
- Target + the following
- Grocery store
- Vacuum dust for fridge
- Corner light + blackout curtains

Goals for Sep 15 - 21:
This week my goal is to get back in the routine of playing and studying since I am more settled into my apartment.

Contract Work:
Decide exactly what I’m doing for the day ahead of time. This’ll provide clarity about when I can move on to other things for the day.

Poker Live Play
Monday:
Min: Just Show Up
Target: 2 hours
Stretch 4 hours

Tuesday:
Live Play
Min: 2 hours
Target: 3 hours
Stretch: 4 hours

Overall Min/Target: Play both Monday & Tuesday
Overall Stretch: 10 hours total during the week

Focused Studying:
1 focused study session (1 – 1.5 hours)

Drilling:
1 drilling session (1 – 1.5 hours)

Casual Studying:
Min: 2 hours
Target: 3 hours
Stretch: 4 hours

Costochondritis:
Use lacrosse balls or backpod for 50 mins total for the week (aiming for 10 mins a day)
Create gym sched similar to poker goals for the week after

Misc:
Write down daily highlight
TV Stand

Goals from Sep 15 - 21:

Contract Work:
Decide exactly what I’m doing for the day ahead of time. This’ll provide clarity about when I can move on to other things for the day.
COMPLETE – this def helped, will continue

Poker Live Play
Monday:
Min: Just Show Up
Target: 2 hours
Stretch 4 hours
MIN COMPLETE – 1.7 hours

Tuesday:
Live Play
Min: 2 hours
Target: 3 hours
Stretch: 4 hours
STRETCH COMPLETE – 4.9 hours

Overall Min/Target: Play both Monday & Tuesday
Overall Stretch: 10 hours total during the week
TARGET COMPLETE – 6.6 hours

Focused Studying:
1 focused study session (1 – 1.5 hours)
COMPLETE – 1.75 hours

Drilling:
1 drilling session (1 – 1.5 hours)
COMPLETE – 1.25 hours

Casual Studying:
Min: 2 hours
Target: 3 hours
Stretch: 4 hours
STRETCH COMPLETE – 7.25 hours

Costochondritis:
Use lacrosse balls or backpod for 50 mins total for the week (aiming for 10 mins a day)
Create gym sched similar to poker goals for the week after
COMPLETE – 50 mins total

Misc:
Write down daily highlight
TV Stand
COMPLETE

Goals for Sep 22 - 28:
By the end of this week I’d like to be more of a routine such that I can fix my goals and schedule for the next 4 weeks.

Contract Work:
Decide exactly what I’m doing for the day ahead of time. This’ll provide clarity about when I can move on to other things for the day.

Poker Live Play
Min: 8 hours
Target: 10 hours
Stretch: 15 hours
Additional hours over 15 carry over to next week.
Fixed days are Monday and Tuesday. The rest are flexible.

Focused Studying:
Min: 1 focused study session (1 – 1.5 hours)
Fixed session wed/thur

Drilling:
Min: 1 drilling session (1 – 1.5 hours)
Fixed session wed/thur

Casual Studying:
Min: 2 hours
Target: 3 hours
Stretch: 4 hours

Gym:
Min:
Monday - Hamstring Strength Exercises
Thursday – Shoulder or Costo Exercises
25 mins using lacrosse ball/backpod for costo
Target:
50 mins using lacross ball/backpod for costo
Create program for costo
Schedule next week’s gym sessions

Misc:
Write down daily highlight
Put up blackout curtains

Hiyas, I haven't posted for a bit because my distraction blocking software was being buggy and was always blocking this site for some reason. I still have all of my goals written out so I'm blasting them all out now.

Goals from Sep 29 – Oct 5:
Won’t be doing a 4 week goal yet. Still things moving around a lot. However, the goals for this week will basically be the same as last week.

Contract Work:
Decide exactly what I’m doing for the day ahead of time. This’ll provide clarity about when I can move on to other things for the day.
COMPLETE

Poker Live Play
Min: 8 hours
Target: 10 hours
Stretch: 15 hours
Additional hours over 15 carry over to next week.
Fixed days are Monday and Tuesday. The rest are flexible.
STRETCH COMPLETE - 17.5 hours, did monday and tuesday, also played friday. I'll try for friday after finishing contract work again

Focused Studying:
Min: 1 focused study session (1 – 1.5 hours)
Fixed session wed/thur
COMPLETE - 1 hour

Drilling:
Min: 1 drilling session (1 – 1.5 hours)
Fixed session wed/thur
COMPLETE - 1.75 hours

Casual Studying:
Min: 2 hours
Target: 3 hours
Stretch: 4 hours
TARGET COMPLETE - 3 hours

Gym:
Min:
Monday - Hamstring Running Exercises
Tuesday or Thursday – Shoulder or Costo
25 mins using lacrosse ball/backpod for costo

Target:
50 mins using lacross ball/backpod for costo
Tuesday and Thursday – Shoulder and Costo
Schedule next week’s gym sessions

Stretch:
Friday – Hamstring Strength Exercises
Add back exercises to costo program
STRETCH COMPLETE - didn't add back exercise tho

Misc:
Write down daily highlight
Put up blackout curtains
FAILED - problem with the type of wall I have, might need to order different curtains

Goals from Oct 6 – Oct 11:
Contract Work:
Decide exactly what I’m doing for the day ahead of time. This’ll provide clarity about when I can move on to other things for the day.
COMPLETE

Poker Live Play
Min: 6 hours
Target: 8 hours
Stretch: 15 hours
Additional hours over 15 carry over to next week.
Fixed days are Monday and Tuesday.
IF, i don't have anything going on, play friday after work and saturday after gym.
STRETCH COMPLETE - 21 hours

Focused Studying:
Min: 1 focused study session (1 – 1.5 hours)
Fixed session Thursday
COMPLETE

Drilling:
Min: 1 drilling session (1 – 1.5 hours)
Also try doing on thursday
MEH - did like 30 mins, going to keep this session fixed

Gym:
Min:
Tuesday or Thursday – Shoulder or Costo
Saturday - Shoulder, Legs, or Costo
25 mins using lacrosse ball/backpod for costo

Target:
50 mins using lacrosse ball/backpod for costo
Monday Hammy Running Progression
Tuesday and Thursday – Shoulder and Costo
Schedule next week’s gym sessions
MIN COMPLETE - 25 mins, Shoulder and Costo day done

Misc:
Write down daily highlight
order new blackout curtains
COMPLETE

Goals from Oct 12 - Oct 17:

Contract Work:
Decide exactly what I’m doing for the day ahead of time. This’ll provide clarity about when I can move on to other things for the day.
Did 4 out of 5 days

Poker Live Play
Min: 6 hours
Target: 8 hours
Stretch: 15 hours
Additional hours over 15 carry over to next week.
STRETCH COMPLETE - 17 hours

Focused Studying:
Min: 1 focused study session (1 – 1.5 hours)
Fixed session Wed afternoon
FAILED - Wednesday is too crowded of a day, will be removing this from sched moving forward

Drilling:
Min: 1 drilling session (1 – 1.5 hours)
Fixed session Thursday
FAILED - was a rough day for focus, schedule going to library after lunch with sister moving forward

Casual Study:
7.5 hours complete

Gym:
Min:
Tuesday or Thursday – Shoulder or Costo
Saturday - Shoulder, Legs, or Costo
25 mins using lacrosse ball/backpod for costo

Target:
50 mins using lacrosse ball/backpod for costo
Monday Hammy Running Progression
Tuesday and Thursday – Shoulder and Costo
Schedule next week’s gym sessions

MIN/TARGET COMPLETE - Shoulder, Costo, & Leg workout complete, 25 mins of lacrosse ball/backpod

Misc:
Write down daily highlight
COMPLETE

Hola, I'm coming back to write some goals this week. I stopped posting for a while for 2 reasons.
1) My website blocking software would block this website and I wasn't able to fix it.
2) I no longer needed to write weekly goals for what I wanted to achieve.

2) is longer the case since I'd like more deep work sessions in my week than I currently have. I've struggle to implement this myself so I'm taking the Life of Focus course by Scott Young and Cal Newport to help this.

Goals for 6/1 - 6/7:

Monday:
Focused work session: 11a - Noon
Optional work session: 4:30p - 5:30p

Tuesday:
Focused work session: 11a - Noon
Optional work session: 3p - 4p

Wednesday:
Focused work session: 11a - Noon (play live afterwards)

Thursday:
Focused work session: 11a - Noon
Optional work session: 4p - whenever

Friday:
No work session (play live all day basically)

Saturday:
Optional work session whenever.

Ideally, I'd have more focused work sessions, but I'll start with this for now.

Goals from 6/1 - 6/7:

Monday:
Focused work session: 11a - Noon
Optional work session: 4:30p - 5:-30p
COMPLETE - Focused

Tuesday:
Focused work session: 11a - Noon
Optional work session: 3p - 4p
COMPLETE - Focused & Optional
Had to move focused session back an hour tho cuz of a meeting

Wednesday:
Focused work session: 11a - Noon (play live afterwards)
COMPLETE

Thursday:
Focused work session: 11a - Noon
Optional work session: 4p - whenever
COMPLETE

Friday:
No work session (play live all day basically)
N/A

Saturday:
Optional work session whenever.
NOT COMPLETE

Sunday:
Did focused session for 80 minutes

Total focused work
55 mins + 55 mins + 90 mins + 55 mins + 55 mins = 5 hours 10 mins

There was some ad hoc focused work due to ad hoc contract work asks but I’m not counting them cuz that doesn’t move the lever much. I’m basically counting that as shallow work.

I'll be travelling this week so I'll keep in mind to timeblock in the morning if necessary.

Goals for 6/8 - 6/14:

Monday:
Focused work session: 11a - Noon
Work session: 4:15p - 5:30p

Tuesday:
Focused work session: Noon - 1p
Optional work session: 3p - 4p

Wednesday:
None: I’ll be traveling today

Thursday:
Focused work session: 11a - Noon OR Timeblock in the morning
Optional work session: 4p - whenever

Friday:
Focused work session: Noon - 1p OR Timeblock in the morning

Saturday:
Optional work session whenever.

Sunday:
World Cup Game so nothing

Goals for 6/8 - 6/14:

Monday:
Focused work session: 11a - Noon
Work session: 4:15p - 5:30p
COMPLETE, 60 minutes and 90 minute session

Tuesday:
Focused work session: Noon - 1p
Optional work session: 3p - 4p
COMPLETE - 60 minute session

Wednesday:
None: I’ll be traveling today

Thursday:
Focused work session: 11a - Noon OR Timeblock in the morning
Optional work session: 4p - whenever
NOT COMPLETE - did 30 min focused session, schedule was tougher to fit in after travel

Friday:
Focused work session: Noon - 1p OR Timeblock in the morning
NOT COMPLETE - focused session was tough to find, had to find and walk to a library, did 90 minute focused session.

Saturday:
Optional work session whenever.
game was actually this day

Sunday:
World Cup Game so nothing
played 8 hours of live poker today

5.5 hours of focused work

Goals for 6/15 - 6/21:
Time block for monday through thursday in the morning or night before for focused work bouts.