Life is a Game: Doing Fine Poker Wise

Currently I got 82 kg (180 pounds) with 16% Body Fat.
My ultimate goal would be 90 kg (198 pounds) with 10% Body Fat.
It all depends if I'm satisfied or not at that point, so I might go further.

Physical Goal: Lift Weights 4 times a week. Ride a bike 3 times a week.
Nutritional Goal: Ingest an appropriate amount of calories, proteins and water. This will be updated.
Rest Goal: Sleep at least 8 hours a day.

I got this pretty much right as it it, only maybe a couple of minor things.

The thing that irritates me the most is my neck which is a bit bent to the front. Since I built up my muscles a bit in the last couple of years (especially back muscles), it kind of blends with my body and is less noticeable but it still irritates me when I'm sort of hunched a bit. This is also, according to the doctor, cause for my occasional face numbness and dizziness because of obstructed blood flow or something... so it's kind of a health hazard.
The cause for this is the pillow and the fact that I slept on back my whole life until the past 2-3 years.

The way I'll fix this is simply to sleep without a pillow on my back and to try keep the neck position straight-ish during the day. I've been doing this for 2 days and I can already see huge improvement... why the hell didn't I do this before?

Goal 1: Sleep without a pillow on my back during the night. Keep the neck straight during the day.
Goal 2: Walk with legs more apart.
Goal 3: Move sloooooower, smoooother.

Work in progress...

Never really had much thought about this really, but it's really important. It conveys status, it conveys power.
Goal 1: Read a decent book on style.
Goal 2: Experiment and find out what suits me best.
Goal 3: Find some accessories that fit with my wardrobe (necklaces, rings...).

There are no particular goals in here except to shave my head/beard/pubes/torso/armpits regularly.

The thing about this is, that women have much stronger sense of smell then men. Also they can smell your genes... literally! Based on the smell of your sweat, they can decide whether you're attractive or not...
Goal 1: Shower, damn it! Every day! Old sweat is not attractive.
Goal 2: Maybe get a decent cologne? I'm using Paco Rabanne BlackXS, but I'm not sure if it masks the natural scent the man exudes. The thing that attract girls. Although I've been told numerous times by girls that I smell nice... I will have to do some more research on this.

Future Goal 1: Big ass colorful tattoo which tells a story of my life... in symbolism/metaphors. It will have to be well thought out so I plan to do it somewhere around summer 2013.
Future Goal 2: Nipple piercings planned for spring 2013.

Work in progress...

Work in progress...

Work in progress...

I mumble a bit which is caused by talking too fast. I only noticed it around a year ago when I recorded myself to see how I sound. I could barely understand myself, and I admire people who conversed with me all this time... I guess people get used to it.

So the cause for it is that I don't really bother to pronounce every sound of the word... I kind of fly over a sound here or there and it ends up messy. Also, talking about 50% faster then I should. So I decided to take care of this the same way I corrected my extreme stuttering from when I was little.

The way I'll do this, is to read the whole Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky with the wooden spoon in my mouth, talking slowly so I say every single sound and open my mouth wider. I don't plan on going overboard with this so I suspect it will take me around 4 months to finish the book.

Goal 1: Read 5 pages every day.
Goal 2: Practice clear talking in everyday life.

Brief History: Around 3 years ago I got a membership for MassiveMember.com having blind faith in this sort of stuff. I did the exercises 5 times a week for 20 mins daily, and in 4 months I gained 3 cm (1.2 in). THIS STUFF WORKS!

Now, there are a lot of free stuff on the internet and I would recommend the biggest forum of it's kind: PEGym. It got exercises, success stories etc.

Goal 1: Reach 20 cm (8 in) by the new year. Same routine, 5 times a week for 20 mins a day.
Future Goal: After reaching wanted length, continue doing girth exercises indefinitely.

As I've been told, you can last indefinitely without ejaculating. There are two parts to this: physical and mental.

Physical part is accomplished by practicing your PC muscle with PC (Kegel) exercises.
I still haven't reached those kind of heights but I increased my endurance from 5 to 15 minutes, by doing these exercises for 6-7 months with some big pauses in between. I wasn't really consistent but some results are evident.

Ejaculation also can be delayed by having good control of your emotions, urges etc. As I heard, a praised program for this is Ejaculation by Command by Lloyd Lester. I still haven't watched it so don't take my word for it, but I've been told it does wonders and I'm definitely checking it out.

Physical Goal: Do Kegel's 5 times a week. I'll be doing exercises from AskMen.com for now until I find something better. I'm sure I did some better stuff a year ago.
Mental Goal: Go through Ejaculation by Command and do the stuff it says in there.

Fuck off, it's a SECRET!

Anyone here had a lucid dream? I don't mean the one where you're just aware that you're dreaming but couldn't do anything to change what happens. I mean the real shit where you can summon anyone you want, change your surroundings, trigger events that you like...

I had it three-four times in my life, by accident, and I felt like "god" for the brief time it lasted. I wish it lasted longer because shortly after realizing what was going on, I woke up.

Also
"Please note that attempting WILD has a very small chance of causing you to suffer from sleep paralysis, rapid vibrations and noises that don't really exist, floating and other out-of-body experiences, and hypnagogic hallucinations/images, and anxiety. There is no reason to be afraid, as Sleep Paralysis happens every night - you just sleep through it. Hypnagogia is just your mind being overactive. Remember that with lucid dreaming you are aware and can always wake yourself up if you feel overwhelmed."

Are you fucking kidding me? This gets better and better lol

Goal 1: Learn to do this shit... The program I'll check out, that seems to be decent is Lucid Dream Discourses by Stephen Berlin.
Goal 2: Also, watch Waking Life, a quality movie (as I've been told) about Lucid Dreams. Maybe I get some better idea of the possibilities.

It was always a fun notion for me to learn how to do magic tricks and it's fascinating to me how easily manipulated human brain is. Even though most of the tricks are pretty obvious and easy when they are revealed, they still look like pure sorcery to unsuspecting mind.

I'm mainly interested in doing tricks with items I have lying around at my disposal like coins, pieces of clothing, rings etc. so I can do them at any time I please. The notion of extensively preparing for a trick beforehand is kind of repulsive to me... too much effort: "Hey guys, I just happen to have this deck of cards on my hands... pick a card!"

Apart from the mere tricks I'd also like to read about the brain aspect of it... why do these things fool people (I'm not saying these don't fool me... oh contrer...)

Goal 1: For starters learn some coin tricks from Bobo Coin Magic (there are also videos made, from which I'm currently learning). Nothing fancy, just 5-7 tricks... I'm not going to do this for a living... but first I have to choose which ones.
Goal 2: Find a good book on why this sort of stuff works so well... maybe there could be some other uses for these kind of brain mechanisms.

I'm terrible at remembering names/dates, and I mean terrible. How terrible?
Apart from some country known streets, I only know the name of my street and a couple of streets around mine. I can't possibly remember something like that (if they are named after people and not some things like "The Crown Street" or "The Clown Brigade Street") because names are just bunch of random letters to me.

Speaking of names, I need to ask people like 5-6 times before I remember their name. Especially embarrassing is when I go out, meet like a dozen of girls and then all the names mix up and I end up calling them the wrong names. I mean, not that I care but it's affecting my success rate.
Also, the only telephone number I know is my mobile and home number... even the ambulance and fire department numbers get mixed up. It's a real problem.
I don't even know the birth dates of my parents. That should say it all.

So there is this memory program called Phenomenal Memory by Ruslan Mescerjakov which I did earlier for the first like 5 out of 60 lessons. It was fun but then, I just didn't have any time to do it. I still don't have time for it, but it will be something to look forward to in the near future.

Some benefits you get with this:

Also with this system you can recite the memorized book BACKWARDS with ease. Not sure what would be the benefit of it, but it sounds like a superpower.
They seem to have made the 2nd version which is supposedly much better, I think mine was 1st. I just registered and got some 3 Memory games... this should be interesting...

EDIT REGARDING POKER: It just stroke me! My fucking god... I could use this to memorize equities: Mind SnGWizard. I could use this in live poker for a mind HUD, easily having stats pop up for each player... The possibilities...

Goal: Start this course somewhere around January 2013.

Background

The Uberman sleep schedule is a method of organizing your sleeping time to maximize your REM sleep and minimize your non-REM sleep.
In essence, someone utilizing the Uberman sleep schedule is actively modifying their sleeping habits so that they can immediately jump from waking to a few minutes worth of stage 1 sleep straight to stage 5 REM sleep.

It is important to note that there are no studies as to the long-term physical or physiological impact of this sleep cycle, and if this concerns you, I wouldn't attempt the cycle. However, the benefits are fantastic.

The Uberman's Sleep Schedule

Sleeping Hours
The Uberman's sleep schedule revolves around forcing yourself to rely on six twenty to thirty minute naps spread throughout the day for your daily dose of sleep. I stuck to thirty minute naps, currently having them starting roughly at 2 AM, 6 AM, 10 AM, 2 PM, 6 PM, and 10 PM every day.

Adjusting To This Schedule
Adjusting to this schedule (as you might imagine) will make you feel like you've put your body and mind through a blender for a few weeks. Here are some general tips for adjusting that I found to be greatly helpful:

Do the adjustment when you are in complete control of your schedule. I converted to the cycle during a three week vacation; it would have been impossible to get through a normal work day while adjusting to this cycle. I was by and large a zombie.
Find a large project to work on while adjusting. If you don't keep busy, you will revert to a normal sleep cycle.
Use physiological "tricks" to teach your body the cycle. I found that using a dawn simulation trick worked nicely. Every time I went to lay down, I set my monitor to wait thirty-two minutes, then begin running a program that had a strobe effect along with some excessively loud music. I also used two alarm clocks, and during the day I would adjust my blinds such that the sun would start shining in my face roughly a half an hour later. These would force me to become somewhat conscious for a while, which was all I needed to keep going.
Days 3 to 10 are the hardest and least productive.
Convert to a more nutritious diet. I've found that drinking a great deal of orange and apple juice makes the Uberman schedule easier to follow, as does eating plenty of vegetables and avoiding fatty foods like the plague.

You will discover that after day ten or so, you will automatically begin waking after about thirty minutes. Quite often, I find that when a dream ends, I just awaken automatically.

Benefits

The obvious first benefit is more free time. I currently clock in between two hours and fifty minutes and three hours and ten minutes of sleep per twenty four hour period. Compared to my previous sleep cycles (roughly nine hours a night), I have an incredible amount of time to do things that I wished I had time to do before I switched.

Although the first benefit is pretty much the only reason you need, I also found that switching to this cycle makes me feel generally healthier. As I noted, I started off this "experiment" by switching to a more healthy diet rich in fruits and vegetables. After my body finally adjusted to the quick batches of REM (about day eight or nine), I began to feel truly GREAT! I actually feel more energetic at this point than I did before this started.

Drawbacks

One drawback is that I hit a wall if I stay up for more than about five hours without a twenty to thirty minute nap. My concentration and energy seem to vanish in a matter of minutes and I absolutely have to go take a nap. This can create some problems in social situations, but one can somewhat shuffle the naps around to adjust for this.

Another drawback is that my appetite is substantially larger and I will often crave strange things that I don't recall craving in the past.

Other Effects

One particularly noteworthy effect (I consider it a benefit, but others might consider it a drawback) is that all of my dreams are very intense and I find myself remembering them as well, down to minute details.

Conclusion

Uberman's sleep schedule is a potentially dangerous way to increase your waking hours. Although I found success with it to this point, there still may be physical and psychological dangers that I have not yet met, and there may be grave difficulties for others attempting the cycle.

If you didn't do the calculations: For me it's 5 extra hours/day, which adds up to 107 extra days per year. Or 23 years in a lifetime.

I'm still a bit torn apart between Krav Maga and Russian Systema. Both seem great for practical use, have defenses against knifes, pistols... although Krav Maga doesn't have much of a ground combat skills.

Krav Maga:

Russian Systema:

Goal: Decide which one to train.

Work in progress...

Work in progress...

I always wanted to play an instrument since I'm so into music. It's a shame I don't have much time for it at the moment. I though the instrument of my choice would be synthesizer because of it's variety of sounds, or an electric guitar... but after seeing this:

My instrument of choice is Hand Flute. Here, you can find a tutorial for it.

It took me like 5 minutes to produce a sound with overlapping palms and around an hour for interlocking fingers... I heard interlocking fingers gives you much bigger range, but it fucking hurts, so I might stay with overlapping palms for now.

Goal: Produce that one sound as often and as clear as possible.

Work in progress...