DrButtInski
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 9,601
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step one to not obsessing about money would be to stop making money goals which tbh I'm surprised to see you doing because I though you knew better. I can't think of one helpful thing a money goal does for you. I don't want to offend anyone but whenever I see an op banner with money on it I already know that person probably does not have the right mind set. There is a reason this forum is littered with failed $XXXX or bust/by xx/ for my car payment threads and it isn't that the posters are bad at blogging.
Look at the title - ben learns poker and builds a roll. Nice! On what page did it become Ben makes 10k or cries trying? You're not going to miss the benchmarks when they happen and they will still feel just as great (even though it's an arbitrary point you picked on a journey). So setting the goal gives you a chance to feel like you failed, play bad once you almost get there and just barely get passed it (can't slip below 10k!!)... and nothing else.
Also I don't know how much "I'm down XYZ vs EV" you've done in these 20 pages but if you can't stop that, I would quit blogging altogether. Another reason a lot of these things fail (and why I almost never read them) is these blogs are a great place to whine without getting stuff moved to the tilt forum and get people to feel bad for you. That encourages you to keep seeing people putting money in behind against you as a bad thing. We all battle against that after some beats but I really think having a bunch of people smile and nod while you revel in your 'downswing' is very bad for your mindset. You're certainly going to feel it when you aren't running good but the sooner you learn to deal with and process that crap out by yourself the better off you are. If you're too tilted from running bad to play that's fine (or at least a different post) but again I don't see the value in posting about it.
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