Update: NEW LIFE GOAL

New goal for me, and it's an interesting one. This time I'm going to take a more 'life' theme instead of just directly a poker theme, though I'm sure this will benefit my poker game indirectly, as +EV things in life seem to translate to +EV in poker.

From now on every time I announce a new goal regarding something that isn't directly form poker, I'll use the same title that I've used for this post.

Okay so first I'll fill you all in. I'm a huge sucker for soda. It must be the combo of sugar/caffiene, and the fact that I think I have a carb' additiction. But whatever it is, it needs to stop. Not cold turkey stop, just stop as in not an everday thing. I drink at least a can of the stuff everyday, and I've decided to take a step to improving my health (and mental focus after doing some research) and cut the drink. No iced tea, coffee, or pop at all for the rest of the week.

The 'challenge' started Monday night at at 7pm after I finished my last can of cola. I'm going till Saturday night before having any, and it'll be a rum and coke since Saturday is my birthday, so I figure the wait and the reward works out nicely. It's going to be a good way to train myself not to drink this garbage unless it's on a special occasion, although after I complete this little 'challenge' I'm thinking of cutting back my intake and saving it for weekends only, or the odd weekday if I'm traveling. The point is, I'm going to set a goal to reduce current consumption to help train myself out of consuming so much in the future.

Anyway, something like this probably wouldn't be a big deal for most of you, but for me it is. I've pretty much sucked ass at setting goals my whole life, but I'm starting to realize it's not too late to get at it.

I'm basically going to be setting goals like this throughout my entire operation so I can improve my lifestyle/health. The operation thingy really helps with these things I think, I know it's helped with poker. It sort of keeps me on track, and if I fail at this little 'challenge' I'm not going to hide from it, I'm going to post my honest results, that way I learn to succeed next time - but I plan on making it.

Okay sorry for the long post, and the probable spelling/grammatical errors, as I'm tired as hell (especially without caffiene :P) so if if the terms of my challenege don't make sense...welll too bad. I hope it was entertaining/motivating/interesting for some of you, though I doubt any of the above were likely. I'll let you all know how 'non garbage-juice' week goes later.