After looking back over a lot of posts I've made since I started posting here, I can tell that one piece of advice given often to me and probably my biggest leak is that I don't bet hard enough and raise hard enough.

I think mentally this stems back to when I first started playing a couple of years ago and donked away my whole roll (all of $30) in one session and it really affected me.

Now that I have restarted and been successful at low stakes (started with $25 and now sit at $133 playing 5nl) I know that I have an actual proper bankroll for this limit. But for some reason I still don't feel comfortable making those pot sized plus bets or calling pushes even with big hands or when my read is telling me that I am ahead. I'm still raising 1/3-2/3 of the pot when I should be doing twice that and not 3betting pre flop enough with hands that I should be. This means I don't get as much out of some hands as I could be.

So I see two approaches: commit myself to betting more than I think I should and raising more than I initially think of doing (like put a sticky on my monitor telling me to stop being a pussy), or bump things up gradually so that my comfort level goes up accordingly.

Anyone had to get by this leak?