Focus and Energy Meeting

I recently saw a motivational speaker of sorts, from which I had a lot of takeaways. In actuality, he is just an owner of a local chain of gyms, but his talk of success at business, directly correlated to poker (at least for me).

Basically he can attribute his success to the following:
-Studying & Learning
-Setting Goals (in list form)
-Staying focused (a result of setting goals)
-Never becoming complacent (because that is the beginning of the end) - Always think about what you can do to better yourself

He talked of setting goals and reading them every morning and night. The most important thing about this list is that it contained anything you wanted in the future. It could be anything. By looking at the list morning and night, you refocused yourself and gave yourself purpose. He told an anecdote about how he would see so many people at work wasting their time, and wondered why they were doing so, until he realized that they must not have a list.

Here is my list which I will read every morning and night:

1.) I will be bankrolled for 100NL by the beginning of Fall semester
2.) I will have played 200,000 hands with a lifetime ptBB/100 of 5
3.) I will have profitted $10,000 playing oker when I am 23 years old
4.) I will learn and win money playing MTTs
5.) I will start and develop my own financial planning business
6.) I will travel to every country in Europe

I plan on adding things to my list at sometime in the future.




In order to accomplish the poker goals above, I immeadiately need to do the following:
-Create a pre-game ritual to get me in the right mindset
-Play more hands (but not more tables)! This is where I am really lacking as of late.
-Continue paying attention and focusing on the table, regardless of if i have folded or not
-I need to stay aware of my feelings (good and bad) about hole cards, flops/boards, and badbeats/cardrushes
-I will constantly look at flop texture (and study it)