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Hi guys!! Made my blog update, but cannot upload sheets, graphs and pictures today, because I'm at work.
Update coming tomorrow when I'll be at home!
C ya and recover from NY partying!! ♠_grin:
Hello boys n girls, I wish a happy New Year to everyone of you and I wish you a lot of strength in next year to achieve or get closer to your ultimate goals in life, and of course in poker! ♠_biggrin:
My NY celebrating - actually not much, I spent time with my sister and cousin + 2 friends, everybody got drunk like fish, except me. 
I didn't drink and go to crazy parties with friends, because I had to work on 1st of Jan.. 
In this post you will see:
- December week 4 summary
- December summary
- Plans for Jan week1
** December week 4 summary **
Yap! Pretty good week, but not all things were accomplished. You will see it in the spreadsheet. Holidays made some influence on that and of course alcohol is very bad for productivity, if you go to party and drink alcohol, count for sure, that the next day you wont do anything. At least it applies to me. Had 3 parties during this time and the next days productivity varies from how much I drunk the previous day. Saturday the roof was on fire, so on Sunday nothing was done, but it still is ok if we count Sunday as NO WORK day. ♠_grin:
If you'd like more info on alcohols influence, you can check it out in Demarcohsp blog - link to post!
TASKS ACCOMPLISHED
Sport & Health
CC training was good, 1 more week hard training and I will move up some steps to 2nd level. As well, this week I will find out about swimming pool working hours, so I could start go swimming once a week.
Food. Mmmm... Delicious and healthy as usually I intended. This time vegetable stew! See for your selfs! ♠_p:
Self-management
SF productivity guides paragraph 6 - clearing your mind + stress removal is working good, but there is still some things I need to do, before I can start learning new material. In addition to that I need to revise previous theory, make a small note from it and put it somewhere I can see it all times.
Poker
Good volume this week and not bad results.
Everything was pretty good, except last session, where I lost something like 80% of 80vs20 situations and that resulted in to 11BI downswing. That was frustrating. Because of that I need to learn how to cope with these kind of problems. I need to work on my mental game asap and I'm planning to start studying soon - The Mental Game of Poker.
I managed to accomplish my volume challenge, so I set a new personal record for 18man turbos volume/week. ♠_cool:
As well I had private coaching with Tim64, I recorded it and it still needs to be reviewed by me.
# of games played: 210 x 3.5$ 18man turbos
Profit: +135.20$
Bankroll: 590.38$
University
Did not manage to do anything... 
party, alcohol, bad sleeping schedule --> low energy
Life & Social
Good, a lot of parties!!! ♠_biggrin:
But I did not manage to do my speaking exercises. Have recorded audio (private coaching) so I will use this material for my research and exercises.
Party hard --> don't do planned things 
** December summary **
Overall goal achievement this month is above average, it can be better. I can do that by reviewing my monthly goals every week when planning.
TASKS ACCOMPLISHED
Playing:
This month with 2 downswings (-25BI and -11BI in a row) in the end turned out pretty good with netting a profit +33.71BI. Still I'm missing 14 sng tournaments, that should net +27.4$, so this month would be +41.5BI. I think it's because of mistake I made when transfering hands from laptop to pc.
# of games played: 406 x 3.5$ 18man turbos
Profit: 145.53$
ROI: 10.24
Stars BR: 590.38$
Time played: All sng play time sums together, giving me huge nr of hours. How to filter just my play time? If anybody know, please share. I use PT3.
** January week 1 plans **
This 1st week of the year I'm going to take off from any tasks and just recoup my strength!
Just couple of things I want to do this week:
- Make a yearly review
- Review my vision statement
- Review my goals
- Set main directions to work on this year
- Brainstorm how to better progress in achieving main goals
- Develop my weekly working schedule/pattern
- Set January goals
- Set next weeks goals
Oki doki fellas, I'll be in touch later this week!
very very nice review!
Mental Game of Poker will help you a lot, it is a great book 
Hey fellow poker colleagues, buddy's, forum browsers, blog followers and others. Here it goes, summary of year 2012 and plans for 2013.
Post updated on 07.01. Updates in green color.
** 2012 REVIEW **
January - July: Not much to say about this time. I'l just describe it in few words - I lived in different country because of work and had different obligations - so no poker and pretty much private life there. Lets leave it like this. (For curious persons, I was not in prison!!) ♠_biggrin:
July: Return to my home country Latvia, straight in to vacation - just relaxing and partying most of the time. Spending time with friends and family, and on my own.
September - mid October: Started to play some poker again, mostly 45man turbos mixing up with some mtt's. Up and down all the time, so I start to learn theory again plus adding some private coachings.
Turning point
mid October - 2013: After some considerations switched to 18man turbos and devoted all my efforts to them. Came across SchnitzelFisches productivity guide, which resulted in changing my every day chaotic life for 180 degrees. Most productive time in all of my poker career so far, recovered a lot of things that changed my life in a better and more organized way. Now I know my vision, have my own goals, I'm progressing with every week and I live a happier, healthier and more social life. I can find time for my self and my closest ones, that does not slow me down and I like it. I know what I want to achieve and actually I am doing things to reach that. You can track my progress from beginning in this blog! ♠_cool:
2012 special thanks goes to DonBartos, SchnitzelFisch, Demarcohsp, Tim64 and all of you guys who are a part of this! ♠_grin:
Some stats from 18man turbos from 2012! (Limits: 1.5$; 3.5$)
BR: 590$
Not going to whine about couple of downswings. I guess it's not a bad result for first 2.5 months on this format. Planing to hit 7$ 18mans soon! ♠_cool:
** Plans for 2013 **
Hey! Now I can break my plans or main course of actions for 2013 in to smaller spheres, here they are:
Health & Sport:
I want to be active all the time and I will plan physical activities every week. Plan is to continue convict conditioning 3 times a week and merge it with 1 aerobic training (running, swimming, skiing etc.) a week. Making 1 healthy hot meal every week or two wont be a big problem as well, maybe I even try to attend some cooking courses, but that is not a goal for now. As I plan to visit dentist and fix all my teeth.
Self-management:
Keep learning the productivity guide, experiment and implement new things in every day life. If financial status will be good, attend private coachings. Gather info on productivity all the time.
Poker:
First priority this year, or at least for 6months, concentrate on quality instead of quantity. Increase my ROI. Attend private coachings and make session reviews. Learn theory. 2nd priority is to coach myself the mental side of poker.
University:
Lecture attendance at least 90%. Pick up all the knowledge that teachers give. Complete all assignments, no debts, failed exams and laboratory works.
Life & Socializing:
Spend more time with family and friends. Work on my social and talking skills. Buy new clothes, twice as much as I have now (+2 new suits). I want to travel to Slovakia this summer and take as many friends I can with me, I will work on this project.
Motivational picture for this year - someone climbing the mountain Everest - I'm drawing parallels with me climbing my own mountain - reaching my goals.
Looks cool, 2013 will be the year of taking control and being out there dominating while the loseres are busy whining
Hell yeah!!!
Btw, I forgot to mention that I plan working on one project next year.
Lets call it SLOVAKIA!
I plan to travel somewhere next summer and I want to visit Slovakia! in addition to that I want to take my friends with me. So I`m going to fully plan this trip! ♠_cool:
This year has started, first week relatively not much, mostly did the reviewing and planing related stuff. Prior Proper Planing Prevents Poor Performance (5P's) - so this is important and that's why I decided to start new year with that in first place. ♠_grin:
In this post you will read about:
- My new developed working pattern V.1
- January plans
- January week 1 summary
- January week 2 plans
** My new working pattern **
While making my December review I thought about my mistakes I made that month and came to conclusion, that something lacks in my organizing skills, I kinda forgot about my monthly goals while working through the weeks and making weekly goals. Something had to be done by this matter, some brainstorming and here it is. As well I decided not to put much pressure on me with my tasks at first, I don't want to burn myself, I will increase the intensity gradually. I will try to concentrate more on each thing individually.
The changes:
1)Free or Recovering day. I will try to take Sundays as free days from everything. The only day during the week when I can go out and party with my friends is Saturday, so if it happens, Sunday is not very productive day anyway. That way I wont disappoint me if something was not accomplished during that day. Even if I'll be able to be productive on Sunday, I still will try to not do anything and just relax. One day a week like this should be good in different ways - not to burn myself and to properly recover from hard working week or hard partying the previous day.
2)Planing and review day. I will use Mondays instead of Sundays as my review and planing days. This should make my updates all the time to be up to date. I will review my monthly goals every week when planing tasks from now on, the same will be for yearly goals every month, in order not to forgot something and not to deviate from my main course.
3)Free or recovering week. This I will take once in a quarter. Just a week off from my obligations. Not anything specific during this week. If possible I will do some traveling within my own country, still a lot off places I haven't seen here. Mostly recovering stuff, may be even go to some spa for health procedures. Just relax and recover. One thing dough, I will make my quarterly review and planing during this week.
** January plans **
Just one main effort during January. University SESSION. I will devote most of my time for University studies, I still need to work on 2 Lab works, the last ones, when its done, I can count that I passed this subject in this semester. Then I still have 3 more exams in between 19th Jan - 9th Feb. Study, study and study this month.
I need to accomplish that this month and then I will be free from it for some time, which means more poker.
** January week 1 summary **
TASKS ACCOMPLISHED:
Just one area I worked on this week - Self-management - actually did quite a lot. I already described this, will see how this works in practice.
** January week 2 plans **
Ok, that's it, I'm feeling exhausted right now.. going to bed!
See you son! 
don't click this link
Ok guys. One thing is for sure, this working pattern that I developed and was using for 1st time this week rocks. Even if I had 2 days with partying I managed to accomplish a lot.
Reviewing my monthly goals every week will work fine as well, and reviewing yearly goals every month should give the same effect. I know, for this month I don't have complex plans, because my main effort is just based on University studies, but I already can feel that this will work! ♠_biggrin:
In this post you will read about:
- January week 2 summary
- January week 3 plans
** January week 2 summary **
TASKS ACCOMPLISHED:
Yep! Had some problems with CC training schedule, but managed to do everything at the end.
Same was with playing poker.. I don't know why I even put up this task for this week.. I wont plan these tasks for next two weeks until my exams are over. Just going to study, exercise and update my blog.
Poker:
# of games played: 17 x 3.5$ 18man turbos
Profit: -14$
Bankroll: 576.38$
Played couple of mtt's too, but nothing significant to mention there. I use separate BR for that. I think I'll play some of them in these 2 weeks as well.
** January week 3 plans **
Study, study and one more time study! In addition to that continue to exercise, plus I have two reviews to make asap, in order not to forget about them (one is my old 180man turbo sng hh, reviewed by DonBartos, if interested you can watch it here. Nothing interesting guys for next two weeks!
At the end.. enjoy this song guys!! 
Hi guys!
2 weeks no sign from me! Don`t worry, everything is fine.
So these last 2 weeks I was busy with studying for exams at Uni. Nothing interesting.
Other things I managed besides studying was working out.. but it was not as intense as I would like it to be. For example, managed just 2 out of 3 CC trainings last week. I`m having a feeling that I`m starting to get little bit lazy. 
Will focus on this next week as top priority.
Post contents:
- January summary
- February plans
- Next week plans
** January summary **
As I planned before, most of the time was devoted for Uni works and that's all. Managed to finish all my lab works. Passed 2 exams, still waiting for marks. Now are just 2 tests left for this semesters session to end, but nothing complex and that should not take much of my time.
Played couple of mtts, some 6man hypers and 2 sessions of 18man. Nothing worthly to mention here. BR: 575$
** February plans **
Health & Sports:
*Learn 2 new healthy recipes
*3x/week CC exercises
*Go to swimming pool at least 2x
*Visit dentist
Self management:
*Revise SF PG
*Continue study SF PG
Poker
*Attend 1 private coaching
*Play 300 18man turbos
University
*Lecture attendance 100%
*Pass 2 remaining tests
Life & Social
*Project Slovakia (basic planning, research & gather information how to plan trips)
*Study 2 lessons from ''Rules of the game" and conduct exercises
Other
*Order books on amazon (I will teach you to be rich; The mental game of poker; How to talk to anyone)
** Next week plans **
In the end, nice song and nice vid, spoil yourself with couple of minutes & enjoy! 
Ok see ya layer!!