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@Jiimmy Thanks!

May: This has been the best month in forever. I am getting deeper into meditation and breathwork again and it is amazing how powerful these tools are. I have been working with a "coach" with this for 3 months by now and the changes has been huge. I quit my job May 1st and has been playing ...

Updating again with almost 2/3 of the month done. Had a breakeven stretch of a few tousand hands last week and did not execute as well as I did the first 10 days. I identified a few things I did poorly and focused only on doing those things correct and am now back on track. It has been a great month...

NIce read. Seems like you are on a good track with saving almost 80% of your income.

@Bankai Thanks! Yeah I do a lot of this, meditation in the mornings checking in with my body how I am feeling. Also I have a pretty advanced tracking program where I can do all sorts of analysis of my play. The thing with tracking results in relation to time of day is that it takes a ton of data to ...

Congrats! Have you thought about starting a youtube channel and talking about hand histories? That seems like the cool thing to do these days. Thanks! Yeah I have thought about it but I just want to focus on one thing atm. But I have some ideas about creating yt videos, but not about poker. I am ou...

A couple of days since I left work. Have been playing a decent amount of poker and it feels very good. Have been focused, relaxed and have executed very well. I also have been taking regular naps during the day, long walks with the dog, and hung out with the kids a fair bit. Overall it feels amazing...

Thank you so much everyone:)

And as of 9am this morning: I am free Incredible feeling.

My 5yo had the great timing of catching a cough this friday so we have spent the whole week at home. This have given me a looot of time to think and process the big changes that are happening. One thing that is very clear to me is that while you are in a situation that is very bad it is hard to see ...

@2b1s Thanks so much for that post! Tons to read trough, perfect for keeping me occupied these days.. There seems to be different views on the 4% rule for sure, and maybe it is not a worst case scenario in a "normal" sense hehe. Seems like a lot depends on what happens during the first 10y...

Thanks @ertyu! OK, so I ended the relationship yesterday. It sucks but was inevitable. Moving on. A very nice thing is that a few (newish)friends are stepping up and being very supportive and are making sure Im doing ok. For a long time I havent had these kinds friendships and it was something I did...

I am sliiiiipping. Let these two weeks go fast pls. Dating is going worse by the day, I feel it is kinda doomed unfortunately. Work is draining me. I am spending too much money. Sleep is all over the place. I am fucking tired. Still I am kinda happy anyways but I cant wait to leave work and be on my...

And i were one month wrong so I will change it to correct months. So the plan is something like this: - Pay of 1.56k in debt by November 31. - Save 2.5k for EF by Feb 31 -20. - Save 17k by May -21 Actually I had forgotten that I changed months haha. Ok so I got till end of May to get to 17k. Challe...

March recap: Poker 1.3k. Def happy with this and Im confident going into fulltime grind soon. Even tho I only have one month left at work I am having a hard time motivating myself to go there, I am bored, it sucks all my energy out and my boss keeps behaving very strange at times. I have 7 shifts a ...

Started working with the above mentioned guy and it has been great so far. It is a little more hands-on approach where I look at all aspects of my life rather than just sitting and talking about the past. I wont go into it too much detail at this moment tho. Other than that I am still working hard t...

Ok so I found someone to start working with, it is a little unconventional but my instincts are telling me this guy can help me out a lot. I understand the value of "real" therapy and will def go to that if I do not get deep enough with this first option. So wish me luck, and thank you @er...

Maybe a solution with the pigeons: The city next to mine had these beautiful owls nesting in a very nice spot where people could watch them. It was a pretty rare thing so it got some attraction in the national news etc. The politicians got excited and wanted to honor the owls so they got some artist...

Thank you both for the support.

Yeah, therapy time it is. I am starting to look around for someone to talk to.

I havent updated in a while since I have been very busy with life and preparing for some changes. The decision to quit my job (in May) and pursue poker is a bit scary but it is very clear that this was a good move on my part. It will challenge me in a lot of ways but it will improve my quality of li...