"Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing." -Vince Lombardi
Supsup my hombres?
Damn, I wish I could come on here and tell you guys that I worked my ass off this week and made a lot of progress. Unfortunately, this ride isn't all sunshine and rainbows and I need to ride the lows just as much as I ride the highs. This week was unacceptable from most standpoints and fairly detrimental to my long term goals. Part of this ride is noting and improving on my failures just as much as it is noting my successes, it sucks, but here it goes:
Health:
Workouts Completed this week: (1/6)
Cheat meal: 5/1
Cold Showers: 7/7... I have now completed this challenge and can go back to warmer showers. This was a good test of willpower. It sucks having to get into a cold shower every morning, especially at the beginning, but I started to get used to it. Besides, there is apparently some health benefits with showering in cold.
20 Minute Meditation Session: 3/7
Books Read: .5/1
Body Weight +/-: -6 lbs. (since beginning of year)
Wealth:
Training Videos Watched: 1/1
Hours in the lab: 0/2
Sessions played: 4/4
Hours put into researching new avenues of revenue generation: 0
Weekly Proft: -1945
https://gyazo.com/573a80d6d568922c8f7f473d37e7814e
Yearly Profit: -2536
https://gyazo.com/34ca87a7ee37c499ea449581df6a73f2
Live Poker Profit This Year: +795
Miscellaneous: So yeah, as you can see above my week was pretty brutal from a process and results standpoint across the board. This is unacceptable and I will not tolerate that from myself this upcoming week. Any day where I don't stick to my diet or follow my workout regime I will be donating 25$ to the most recent poster in here.
Story of leaving my comfort zone: I went and talked to a homeless person on the street. I've never really thought about this too much in the past but the general attitude towards the homeless (in Canada, idk about other places) is extremely derogatory. People just ignore them and view them as scum for the most part. In general they are asking for handouts (not always to buy aiding things). It's just weird how nobody talks to them or acknowledges them (although you can probably assume why). Yeah, they may use the money to go buy drugs...but what caused their drug habits in the first place?
Any points worth mentioning about weekly book or readings: This is another part that I dropped the ball this week. I actually started re-reading "The Game" by Neil Strauss. It's a very interesting story about the original guys who created the "Pick-up Community". It's pretty corny at times but there is a tonne of great information in there. The book that I will be reading this week is "Zero to One".
Hands: I actually think I played pretty solid poker for the most part this week. Here is a few hands of interest:
https://www.boomplayer.com/22404362_5000A2B314
this hand is probably a bit of a disaster from me on the river. villain is a very loose opener hence why i flat pre+i flat a tonne of hands in BB here pre so i like to include strong hands too. i guess x/c flop and turn is all i can do really, sucks tehre isnt too many hands he can have here. river sucks because i dont think he bluffs it ever, or jams for thin value so i just jammed and hope he finds the cape. i would have some bluffs here, i just think he checks behind close to 100% on this river.
https://www.boomplayer.com/22404098_7089473026
villain had 38cc
https://www.boomplayer.com/22400924_67ED74F7BF
felt like a punt but gross spot. maybe can just start calling pre here. i think his call down is probably bad given i seldomly have bluffs here other than exactly AKss prob.
https://www.boomplayer.com/22400689_4D23F29B32
i guess hes turning top pair into a bluff? vamoo brazil
https://www.boomplayer.com/22399863_8EC8551F10
sums up the day. should obv just put him in on turn obv but didnt read stack proper.
Random Rant of the Week:
So as you all probably know (unless you live under a rock), Donald J. Trump became the president of the USA this week. I honestly don't think I've seen a person ever be such a focal point of: jokes, criticism, praise, media, conversation, confrontation, or interest. It's amazing to see all of these people up in arms about who the president of the USA is (even those outside of it). Don't ask me how the American electoral system ever allowed this guy to be El Presidente. I also find it amazing to see how many people are expending copious amounts of time and energy worrying about what this guy will implement or how life will be like under a Trump America. To throw a wild guess out there I don't think changes will be drastic, but I'm far from an expert. That being said: Donald Trump will not stop you from: losing weight, enjoying life, being a good person, or achieving your life goals. (Maybe in some cases he would haha). So anyways, no need to worry about stuff out of our control that will have little effect on our lives. Don't let external factors be an excuse for not being the best version of yourself.
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On a side note I went and spoke with a mentor of mine this week. In conversation they asked me: Mike, if you were to die today, and a newspaper article was written about you...what would you want it to say? What would it say? I guess I started thinking very deeply about this question and it took me quite a long time to conjure up a coherent answer. It was tougher to answer than it sounded. I mean long story short I've realized that whenever I'm on my death bed, I want to say "I've lived a fulfilled life and I didn't leave anything on the table." I'm so close to that, yet so ****ing far! Right now I have so many things that I want to do, places I want to see, and people I want to spend time with. Time is precious. Life beckons.
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts." -Winston Churchill
Thanks for all the love so far in 2017 y'all!