Happy New Year everybody!
Seemed like a good time for a quick end of the year update. I'd say this was my best year yet in poker, although I missed my yearly goal by about 5%. Still a great year, and I took down my first live tourney which was a lot of fun.
I had some great experiences in 2018 too... seeing the Eagles win the Super Bowl with my family and going to the parade with my Dad, I made some new friends in the poker world, had a great WSOP, I had another fun cross-country road trip, I made some new friends outside the poker world, I dated a few cool people and learned some things in the process, I thought for a minute I might have met the right girl finally, and I figured out a lot about myself in general...
I'm really happy about some strides I've made outside of poker lately, and I think they'll carry over into my career and help in that regard too... in fact I think those realizations I've made and the work I've started could be the best thing that happened to me in 2018.
I think the first five months of 2019 will be a season of change for me, and I'm really looking forward to it. The first change will be a very big one, and it's going to take place in a month. Well, it's the first change I know 100% will take place within the next month - I'll be working on some others that relate to what I would consider internal game (in life, in dating, in socializing, in business, in poker, in health, in everything). I don't know (or care really) whether they take two weeks or six months, I'll just keep working at them and enjoying the process.
I'm still working on my short/mid-term goals for poker... Maybe I'll post some of them or my 2019 goals overall, which I'll be thinking about a bit tonight. It's going to be a low key NYE since I'm not feeling 100% the last couple days and a couple of my friends are out of town. But I've been more happy/content the last couple weeks than usual, and I'm just perfectly satisfied to chill at home, maybe have a glass of champagne at midnight, but mostly just think about the year ahead and what it holds in store. I think it's going to end up looking like a breakout/breakthrough year to people who don't know me, but really it will be the product of putting years of thought and work in.
Hope you all have a great New Year's Eve, and a healthy, prosperous and fun 2019!
Oh yeah, and the first big change is...