Time for a update!
This one will be dedicated to coaching session I had with mental and life coach. If you are interested or considering taking such service, keep reading about my experience.
Preparation
I got a questionnaire that contained 35 questions which took me close to 3 hours to fill in. That alone showed me that person I was about to have session takes his work seriously, will take time to study your answers to those questions and construct a proper plan in session to tackle them all!
Even tough it took me 3 hours to complete all the questions, re-reading everything back to myself like 3-4 times really helped and opened up my mind more. How so? Simply because I was checking if there was something that was conflicting, if from my mission and vision there were some things that were not included or if some things that are not listed took too much of my time overall.
One of the questions in the questionnaire was to list 5 things that I feel coach can help me with. Whether that was mental game related, life related, poker related - just choose and write them.
This question was one of the key question because I also responded like the whole questionnaire open and honestly and wrote that I am unsure if current coach can help me with the 5 areas I listed - simply because I am taking a serious approach already to getting all those things in synch and on track on my own.
It will turn out that 90 minutes of coaching spent, we covered most time in those 5 areas that I felt I needed help with.
Actual Coaching
1st thing that was interesting is the coach wanted to do coaching with webcam! So we could see each other and not just do audio call.
You all know and learn in life how to read body language at some point. When you talk to somebody, they can tell the words one way but the body language can project a totally different story.
So in that sense I loved the idea and of course I jumped into it, switched from my desktop to laptop (cause I have webcam there) and was ready to start.
From the beginning mental game coach pointed out that he read my questionnaire numerous times and that he feels very excited to meet and work with me. He said that he hasn't had nowhere near enough people with success stories who came to him nor somebody who took all the time to fill everything 100% open and honest and really take time to dig into it.
His method of coaching was very interesting and correct in my opinion. It consists of 2 phases, phase 1 ASKING QUESTIONS and phase 2 PROVIDING ADVICE.
As simple as this sounds, this is the core foundation for any coach out there who have students that know where they are not doing their best.
So this method lead to us discussing all my goals, time management, mission and vision. I went through with every system that I use to track my goals and time + ways that work or don't work. Through process of him asking questions and me responded, he picked up some great things from responses and provided immediate feedback.
Example, we covered me working out part with CrossFit vs other sports. It took me a while, but I finally admitted to myself that I don't want to be doing CrossFit to become best there is in this sport! I instead want to do CrossFit as means to stay healthy, to work on my body and to keep in shape. So automatically this changes approach and my mental barriers towards returning to training. We came to conclusion that if mentally I feel about 2 work outs per week work for me, then I should set up with my time management and systems to do trainings 2 times per week. Whenever my body and mind feel ready for more and opportunity opens that it doesn't conflict with my time management and other important things in my life, I can jump in and do 3 or more work outs.
So this was pretty great stuff because in my head I was holding myself back from working out, knowing how much sacrifice and hard work it took to go through 1 month of training, how even after that 1 month beginner course trainings kept getting harder and harder and I kept pushing myself more and more. In the end results were phenomenal no doubt, after 4 months of training I went to Herceg Novi with 10kgs less and in shape ready to swim run do all sorts of sports and have tons of energy. This of course was great but like with everything in life it takes some other things in life which in my case is studying time in particular which is super important to me.
Instead of going too much into further detail now, I will list all the areas that we covered in 90 minute session and what was the end result after the session.
- Time management and goal setting for all the life areas I want to keep building on
- To keep improving mental game for CG especially for higher limits where swings are larger financially (5k+ loss days etc)
- Ways to decrease stress, scheduling brakes and taking time off/implementing vacations etc
- Money management, investing and saving
- Finding some suitable gf for long term relationship
Finally, let me tell you the end results.
After coach heard my ways of dealing with all the things that I feel are important in my life as mission and vision that I have for my life, he was very specific and happy and just said (I am paraphrasing here) YOU ALREADY KNOW WHAT YOU WANT AND YOU ARE ALREADY DOING IT!
The end result after 90+ minutes is that coach was thrilled to do a session with me, he didn't want to charge anything but I insisted on paying because he really did help me see where my conflicting areas are and how there is no time to fit it all in with the results that I aim and want to have in my life in poker etc
I am very happy that I took the coaching, connected with coach, got very valuable feedback for all the things that matter to me and the areas that I am doing and want to keep going at. Coach provided very useful feedback regarding my different time management samples and priorities, approach to fitness and healthy lifestyle and all the rest of things that I would need another 90 minutes to talk about.
Another interesting thing about session is that coach said WE ARE DONE HERE, THERE IS NO NEED FOR 2nd SESSION! He said that only if I want to get in touch with him and let him know how I am doing with it all that we can schedule but scheduling next session for sake of scheduling is not going to bring any +EV for me - which just leads to what I was saying earlier that he confirmed - I am already doing everything I need to be doing to reach the mission and vision for my life!
What did this 1 coaching session do for me?
It helped me 100% understand and clear doubts that I had about my mission and vision in relation to my time management and goal planing
It helped me actually see what is number 1 thing that is causing me most stress right now and for some time in the past
It helped me actually take all my things from mission and vision and create order of importance to each of them and hours within given day/month for time management
It helped and encouraged me that I am already doing so many great things about my life path and poker improvement that I am heading very rapidly to destinations I plan to arrive on
In the end, coach said that if there is any way I get to his country or perhaps we be somewhere close in Europe that he would be thrilled to meet me live have some coffee. He also said that he will come to my performance in my own music club for live jazz performances 
Overall very positive experience and something that I recommend all poker players to look into. If you need me to recommend the mental game coach, I can definitely do that, get back to me via community message and I can send you his info. His rates are not very high right now but you will get definitely more than you pay for - just be prepared and know what you want in your life and he can really help and guide you.
What I Will Do Soon Here
In order to help all the good people out there who read follow and implement advices from blog in their life, I will post different time managements with my life priorities.
I will also list out ways that I alternate things in my time management to keep it fresh interesting and to accomplish maximum amount of set goals.
Future months will be focusing my goal on GRINDING primarily while studying and coaching will be maintained at very high level. Expect minimum 7 hours of daily poker activities and more.
Thank You all for reading the update and I sincerely hope that from this update you will consider dealing with your life mission and vision more in depth,work on your time management and systems very seriously and finally seek help and support from people that you feel can bring +EV in your life path and decisions!
), Collin Moshman was asked by LemOn36 which poker players he respects the most, and Collin named you, along with abarone68, as his 'idols', those who work the hardest and have consistent results. That's fame, congrats 
