The Quick Guide to Skyrocketing Your Poker and Life Productivity

Hey man,

I just read through the entire post and I must say that I think it is great, that you take the time to put such an enourmous effort into helping a lot of us with struggles that we are all clearly going through.

In the past two years I have had serious difficulties motivating myself to do well in University, Poker theory and other important things that you have mentioned in your post. Reading this has finally giving me a bit of a starting point as to where to begin and get started in terms of getting efficient in the way I live.

I think what you have done deserves a lot of respect. I appreciate all of this a lot and am looking forward to all the new updates.

Thank you

Hey there,

Originally posted by gsusin

1. question: Do you know of a sound strategy to prioritize projects? Both in the long- and the short-term? E.g. during exams, I want to lower intensity of other projects to be able to focus on studying more.

Weekly goals, weekly reviews. It's enough if you sit down once a week and decide on your priorities for the next week, and set goals in line with them. As for figuring out what should be prioritized, it's usually as easy as comparing effort and results of different options (focus on long term). In the end, only you know what is most important to you though, and that should be your top priority.

Originally posted by gsusin

2. question: As you can see, I also consider things I want to turn into habits as 'projects' first (e. g. nutrition, remaining a certain level of physical health). How do I know when a project really turned into a habit, so I can 'clear' it out of my project list to make place for another project? And how do I make sure that I don't fall back into bad habits if I don't closely track it anymore with goalsetting and reviews? Does it make sense to use the 30 days make a habit-rule a couple of times? E.g. one month of getting used to making proper breakfast, one month of 'tracking' that I drink enough water, one month for lunch etc.?

Yep, taking up a new habit every month works great. 30 days is enough to form a habit, so you can move it to habits after 30 days. Another option is to try and form a new habit every 2 weeks (although you should still do it for 30 days), that way it is possible to be forming 2 habits at once at all times. If you lack discipline, I'd start with one habit a month. Once you get disciplined, I'd transition to starting a new one every 2 weeks.

Thank you all for your compliments,

-SF

Originally posted by sebmanx
Is there a German translation yet?

I would love to do it(starting two weeks from now due to exams)

I don't think so. You're welcome to do it if you'd like to ;).

Hu, what is that?

grats and welcome in our coaches community! We hope that many more of our users with your help will have the chance to use their full power and mind for achieving their goals in poker!

News of the week Congratulations!!

Congrats Schnitzelfisch & welcome to the crew.

nice!

SF coach? That's great news!

Congratzzz!!!

there is reasearch: if you say everyone your goals your brain somwhere start to think that those goals are already made and you have difficulty to make them real. u should keep your goals to yourselfand work for them alone.

Originally posted by pppppp555555
there is reasearch: if you say everyone your goals your brain somwhere start to think that those goals are already made and you have difficulty to make them real. u should keep your goals to yourselfand work for them alone.

I know about this research and yes... I sure think it's true... BUT
telling everybody part of your goal will help if you tell it to the right people.
Because the right people will come back to you and ask how you are doing and support you. I think that part will, for some people, make a huge difference.

Mybe you Schnitzelfisch can suggest other ways how to make money or good forums about that, because three years invested in poker just made me absolutely broke???

About that research... I haven't heard of it yet so I am just taking blind guesses here. Might the research be about people who always say that they're running a business and that they want to do this and that but never go around to do more than create a facebook page?

If that's the case, sharing the goals isn't the problem. Not having a vision statement and written goals is. If you frequently review, track your progress and self-reflect along with talking to other people about your goals and letting them hold you accountable, you will have a social incentive (you will not want to look like someone who just talks and does nothing) to help you get more done.

It is also recommended if you are into something seriously that you share it with as many people you possibly can, because people will remember you by that which can prove useful in the future. For example, if you are starting a website company, you want to tell your friends and family about it because when they (or their friends/colleagues) might need a website done, they will ask you for it, and you'll get work. This doesn't translate to poker the best but it translates to life nicely.

I would be a bit worried if you are broke after 3 years of poker, as that is pretty much impossible with proper BRM and constant improvement. I would be worried because running a business is very similar to playing poker. You have to constantly improve and beat others in order to make money. There is no easy way to make money, it takes hard work. But here is a business forum which I have found very useful myself: http://www.thefastlaneforum.com/forum.php . I also recommend reading the book from MJ DeMarco, The millionaire fastlane before even going to the forum.

-SF

Originally posted by pppppp555555
there is reasearch: if you say everyone your goals your brain somwhere start to think that those goals are already made and you have difficulty to make them real. u should keep your goals to yourselfand work for them alone.

TED talk on the topic

https://www.ted.com/talks/derek_sivers_keep_your_goals_to_yourself.html

Originally posted by StaticMoth
TED talk on the topic

https://www.ted.com/talks/derek_sivers_keep_your_goals_to_yourself.html

Thanks! That's where i heard about it

Originally posted by StaticMoth

Originally posted by pppppp555555
there is reasearch: if you say everyone your goals your brain somwhere start to think that those goals are already made and you have difficulty to make them real. u should keep your goals to yourselfand work for them alone.

TED talk on the topic

https://www.ted.com/talks/derek_sivers_keep_your_goals_to_yourself.html

So from what I get you can express your goals if you do it in a way that doesn't bring you any satisfaction, doesn't make you feel better.
That makes sense in a way that if after announcing your goal you feel better about yourself, in general, etc. You get some kind of a reward, that reward might be stolen from the reward of completing the goal. And I don't mean the value of the goal itself but the psychological reward that makes you feel better about yourself because you can do something beneficial for yourself/others/anything.

Update please.....

Especially interested in the audiobooks part and the investing in yourself chapter... gogo!

I just came back from vacation, update coming up today/tomorrow :).

I want the paperback!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! some month ago i send to you some $ but im still enloved with this! i want a book of this for my collection!

Hi Schnitzelfisch,

50 days into my challenge now. Lost over 7kg now and my stamina is much better.
Regarding to food somebody told me to watch this docu from the BBC:

It seems to conflict on some points with the guidelines you give us here. What is your opinion on fasting to reach a better health?

Hey there,

The guide has been updated. I've added the following chapter:

15. Audiobooks

Do it now.

@francisco: I'll look into it once the guide is finished. The paperback version might be a bit more complicated to publish than the kindle one though.

The drawback with publishing it ASAP that I have is that I am not completely satisfied with how disorganized the guide is and I am also not completely satisfied with the quality of some content.

I can't make any promises about when the book will be published, but if there is a need for it, I will make sure that it gets on the market - you have my word for that.

@hoedinie: I dislike constant fasting because on the day you fast, you are completely without energy. I do have some days from time to time where I eat a lot of fruit to "clean myself", but that's about it. If you eat healthy all the time, I personally don't think that there is a need for fasting in order to be productive.

As for the healthy food, you will get 10000 different opinions anyway. I have personally found the content that is on TV and in the newspapers to be extremely outdated, wrong and useless in the majority of the cases. There might be exceptions of course.

I could watch the documentary and provide my opinion on it, but how would that help you or me? It would still only be my opinion and if the opinions would clash, there would be no real benefit.

I know the advice that I'm giving out regarding food works. It works for me, it works for my friends, my family, and a lot of other people who I've helped as well. It's been extensively tested and proven that the kind of nutrition I recommend helps you become more productive, focused and concentrated.

Now I am not saying that there are no other ways that work. There are plenty. To find out which works best for you, you need to test them yourself though. Be open to different things and see how they work.

I've tried IF (intermittent fasting) in the past but it worked terrible for me, so I try to stay away from fasting if possible. Staying away from food for more than 3-4 hours makes me feel sick and completely destroys my productivity.

But if it works for you, that's great.

I do have to warn you though, unless you're really fat, you're losing a decent amount of muscle as well right now, which might not be what you want. The realistic fat loss amount without losing much muscle is about 0.5kg/week, so in 50 days, so you should have lost about 3.5kg by now, but you've lost double that amount. I would decrease the calorie deficit a bit if I were you, but that is again just my opinion.

I hope this helps,

-SF