August 15, 2011
Setting My Goals for Korea
What is the trick to setting realistic goals?
Knowing yourself, and accepting your limitations, which I had a hard time doing at first. You are not Cole South, you are not Brian Townsend, you are not Dusty Schmidt, or perhaps even anything in between. Their goals are their goals, your goals should be a reflection of you. Look to history, and see what you have accomplished and what you have achieved, and try to improve on that in a realistic way. Do not take other peoples numbers and results and arbitrarily apply it to yourself.
This really sticks out. Working on this is really important. You are you, not anyone else.
Recently I have realised something. Often I start out sessions with high positive focus and I am up 1 or 2 buyins after a very short period of time. A voice comes into my head "thats good, but now you are losing your focus, so just quit now and do something else fun, you can always come back later", and then I have another voice in my head, "you're winning, they always say play longer when you are winning right? you should play longer, keep going!" - invariably I play longer, and I often start to do what can only be described as winners tilt, boredom, or looking for excuse to leave because of 'bad play' (which really ends up with me spewing and I KNOW its wrong) - essentially, I do not really feel like playing but keep on playing, just because I have some imaginary rule in my mind which is 'Ivey says play longer when you are winning'.
This is not me. I am not Phil Ivey. I am Josh Igoe. I do so much better in periods of high intensity focus. If I cant regain my high positive focus state when playing, its much better to quit that to play sub optimal poker. Lop off C-game101.
In Korea I will have a drastically new schedule. I will be teaching and so my schedule will revolve around that. Something like this -Wake up at 8am and eat, shower and exercise. Review the day before. Play poker in High Focus. get ready for teaching fun English lessons and deliver fun classes. Get to bed before midnight. - that routine or very close to it M-F is ideal. Weekends off to explore Korea and have fun around the country.
It will be a real success if I can achieve it. I got inspired by the bw blog and by this article by Assassinato which states:
The first thing you do before you decide to take poker seriously is ask yourself…why? Is it because poker is fun and you want to move up and play more poker? If so, is that going to be enough to motivate you for years on end? Do you want to provide for yourself? Full-time or on the side? If so, for how long, and for what purpose? You trying to get through med school or just get out of Mcdonald’s? How much money will you need to make, and how much time can we devote to it? Is that realistic? What games or study should we throw ourselves into to achieve our goals? Write down the answers to these questions and others you may have. If you don’t feel you’re guiding yourself well enough educate yourself with some business books. Seek mentors. Write down your goals for six months, one year, and five years. Make plans. Ask yourself why, why, and why? Remember that kidding yourself could cost you years if you really follow through. Hell, it could cost you more than years if you don’t.
Goals:
-Pay off debts, overdraft, loans
-Save up for a condo down payment
-Do a CELTA and get onto an MA course
I stumbled upon this book CRUSH IT! after hearing about it in the thread for sailbot's video series... basically boils down to this
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