Hi all and a merry Christmas,
I am a part time player and my ambition or target has always been to double my buy in so I play NL $0.25 zoom these days as standard is like watching paint dry, so when I make around $20 or so which is around 40 hands I take a break.
I wish I was clever like you guys and had the game to play at the high levels, my aim over the holidays is to make around $125 per day as I made $92 in less than an hour yesterday but then I lost half of it being a bit loose.
If anyone has any advice to improve my game feel free.
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Hi hardlife66 and a merry Christmas to you!
I actually remember you from my old mod days, it must have been 2015 or so, maybe even earlier? Time really does fly when you're having fun, eh? But I'm glad to see you're still around. 
Based on your self-stated aim over the holidays, I can't really say that your ambitions "aren't lofty enough" though, as you say in the title. Consistently making around $125 a day means that you're easily making a living out of poker. There are not many people out there who can ever reach that level of play these days - don't be fooled by some brags from 2008 about how easy online poker supposedly is.
It can be good to be ambitious, but I'd advise you to take it one step at a time. Back in the days, I believe it was mostly your mental game that held you back, and I still see many of the same issues in your post as back then, such as extremely small sample sizes and too much focus on short term results, or results in general, really.
You also shouldn't worry too much about moving up in limits. tonypmm made a good point about this a few months ago, I'll just quote it here:
Originally posted by tonypmm
It looks like people are too attached to the idea of playing higher stakes because they're subconsciously likening it to being promoted in the real job setting. A promotion indeed usually results in a salary increase. A move up at poker sometimes doesn't increase the hourly. Poker is a business. Compare it to sales: sometimes it's better to sell a ton of Fords than a small number of Ferraris. Hourly profit = BI * EV(ROI) * games_per_hour, and one should maximise the whole product of the three factors, not necessarily the buy-in factor.
Like I said, I think you should take it step-by-step here. Pick an appropriate limit based on your bankroll, not based on what you hope to win per day some time. Focus on making good plays, not getting good results in one session. Try to evaluate what goes well and what doesn't, and gradually improve your game (including your mental game). And when everything goes well and you have the bankroll you need, move up a limit, repeat the process, and see how high you can go.
More importantly though, try to enjoy the game for its own sake, there really is not much point in playing poker if it makes you feel bad most of the time. If it's just about the money, there are better ways to make it. If it's just about the competition, there are "purer", more satisfying forms of competition out there. Try to have some fun, it's the holidays, after all.
Best of luck, and let us know if there is any specific part in your game that you feel you need help with.
