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Originally Posted by Shamou  Would you mind sharing with us what led you to taking that decision...??? and... how you are now acting on it... like the positive steps that you have taken... etc...
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Thats a tough one to answer, you see before I actually made the descision there's a load of history behind it that shaped it. I'll give it a shot though.
Summary:
- Various 'hobbies' (more like obsessions lol) where I focus exclusively on, ranging from Magic the gathering to WoW to poker.
- The last one was poker, I told this story before somewhere on these boards. Poker has a tendency to require changing yourself dramatically, if you want to be good you need to be able to seperate yourself from immediate results. You need to be able to think in terms of weeks and months, if you think in days you WILL get destroyed by the emotional swings.
- Poker went in decline, after playing it for like 4 months about 2-4 hours a day (yes) and reading about poker for another 2-4 hours a day I got 'burned out'. The fact is I stopped enjoying myself so I quit.
- My greatest challenge was always feeling like I was able to beat the game, the moment I felt like I had a solid understanding and was capable of beating it I would move on.
- So I needed my next shot as a 'hobby' and my attention turned towards Personal Development
- I started reading about PD 5-6 hours a day for the past 3-4 months, before I got started I realized that I needed some form of income.
- Reading started changing my mind, I learned more in the past months than I did in the past years.
- During this time I decided that life was the game I'd try to 'beat' from now on (mostly just understand) and since this is a lifetime journey.
Thats a really rough explanation of what happened in the past months, mentally I made heaps of progress thats almost inexplainable. I'm a completely different person than just a few months ago, I can't even begin to identify myself with him. It was the greatest achievement of my life simply because up to now I've lived my life like in a dream, going wherever the community and the winds would take me. My only escape was a temporary obsession and my own mind. I always had a little 'box' in my mind where I basically stored myself in, its tough to explain.
Changes I made so far:
Getting up every morning at 5 AM (busy changing towards biphasic sleeping)
Eating much healthier and paying more attention towards drinking (more water, less alcohol)
Forming several small usefull habits
Cleaning up my desk and KEEPING it that way
Improving my social skills and my self esteem/confidence
Improved my relationship with friends and family
Fixed some issue's from my past (big ones for me)
My emotional state is no longer affected by outside events (90% of the time that is)
Deciding on my goals and beginning to work towards them (important one
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My business is starting to roll, ~130$ a month now. Its time to reap the benefits of my work
Reading every day for atleast one hour (right now busy reading Think and grow rich, can't believe I didn't do that faster lol)
Excersizing every morning
Massive action is starting to roll out of the gate, its time.
Does that answer your question?