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I figured I'd post a bunch of my goals just to keep track and pressure myself a little bit. I've got a ton of goals in different areas of my life so it'll be a decent sized blog post. I'll try to post them by subject.
Poker
- Play at least 40k hands/month consistently. And those hands should be of reasonable quality. No god damned 3-tabling 5/10 HU for 4 hours vs some dude I think I might maybe have an edge against somewhere or anything stupid like that. I always say that I'll start table selecting better but now I think I'll actually do that. I've even added a bunch of 1/2 PLO tables when I can't find good action elsewhere.
- I also have a monetary goal that's fairly reasonable, but I don't want to make that public.
- Get started with some coaching and coach at least 3 people with good results and mutual profit.
- Watch at least on poker video each week and learn something from it. Gotta keep up with the new times and shit.
I feel that these goals are fairly self-explanatory. I no longer feel that it's reasonable to think that I'll be a full time 10/20+ reg so I might as well just get some decent volume in and get a decent profit playing mid stakes rather then going for the high variance route. I just want a steady income for a while. Dusty's getting old, but he still needs some coin. Strippers and blow ain't cheap 
Just kidding, I'm not a baller. I'm a responsible young man who wants to build a future.
Survivalism
- Build a complete bug-out-bag.
- Test said bag in mother nature and see how I do.
I want to be ready when shit goes down. Weather it's a Zombie invasion, a feminazi Coup d'état or something else I'd very much like to be able to have a decent chance at surviving.
Life style design
- Read "The 4-Hour Work week" and "Getting Things Done".
- Get in touch with at least 5 new people which can enrich my life in some way in a meaningful way.
- Find at least one way to do shit more effective and remove one thing that takes up more energy then it gives each month.
I want to get more shit done in less time so that I can spend more time doing cool shit that enriches my life and makes me happy.
Investment
- Beat the market
- Find a way to learn trading and such fast and then learn enough so that I can feel confident that I know wtf I'm doing by this time next year.
I want to get rich enough so that I don't have to worry about it any more when I'm 30. To reach that goal I'll need to have a good rate of interest on my saved up capital. Thus I need to learn this.
Health
- Eat healthy
- Work out 3-4 days a week in some way
- Lose 5kg before my birthday (about 2.5 months away) and then figure out how much more I need to get rid of before I'm ripped.
"I want to look good naked" - Lester Burnham.
Also there's so much stuff I want to do so it'd probably help with a long ass life.
Other
- Get my law degree or, if I happen to find something cooler to do this fall, make sure that I only have my thesis left.
- Read at least 12 different books by 8 different authors.
- Also a "total wealth"-goal that I don't want to disclose.
Getting my law degree, or at least being close enough to it so that I can get it very fast whenever I want, seems good. Except for the obvious upside ("yea I'm a lawyer, so... do you wanna go to my place and sue something?" it'd be a nice accomplishment overall. As for the books; I just love reading and I think it makes me a wiser person so I want to make sure to keep up that habit.
Also, I'd like some more music to listen too. Right now this is my main play list. If anyone likes it I'd like you to recommend me 5 songs you really like.
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Ket  United Kingdom. Jan 05 2011 14:45. Posts 8665 | | |
wtf screw those poker goals dude, let's play some hu |
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Joe Czech Republic. Jan 05 2011 14:55. Posts 5987 | | | |
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| there is a light at the end of the tunnel... (but sometimes the tunnel is long and deep as hell) | |
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Nah sorry, it just doesn't work out for me anymore with my different priorities. You're better then me, which I'd be fine with if I felt that the added equity of actually getting better was worth it, and I don't care for the stress or the variance no more. I don't feel the need to be as good as I could or "the best" anymore, I just need to be good enough. |
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Milk Netherlands. Jan 05 2011 15:35. Posts 49 | | |
Great goals! Mine are alot like yours, also into the survival stuff. Went into the mountains 2 months ago with a friend and it rocked. You should watch dual survival also, really cool :D.
On ur liefestyle goals, Ive read both books and theyre cool but not really worth it. Most of the stuff you already know in some kind of way. When you finish reading another one of these books you just try a new format or some tricks that worked for someone else. I dont know if you read alot of those self help or self help managment books, if you do i have a great tip for you. STOP reading those books and let stuff come from your own self. Just go with the flow.
For an example, the goals you set for poker are the ones that work for you. You found out after a couple of years. This way of working makes you stay happy and less stressed out. Do this shit for everything you do. The moment i figured this out i lost so much stress.. |
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mnj United States. Jan 05 2011 16:26. Posts 3848 | | |
lol, how do you plan on learning to beat the market?
seems so intangible sometimes, learning that stuff |
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Uptown . Jan 05 2011 16:32. Posts 3557 | | |
Dusty let me know via pm or w/e if you want to talk investment stuff.
Though my principles are anti-trading and more long term, I do think I may know investment vehicles that you may not be familiar with or haven't thought of. Also, it'd be interesting to talk from an American and European perspective on the markets. |
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Oddeye Canada. Jan 05 2011 16:54. Posts 5106 | | |
| | On January 05 2011 13:45 Ket wrote:
wtf screw those poker goals dude, let's play some hu |
hahaha
Seriously it's the last year before the apocalypse just do it! |
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| | On January 05 2011 14:35 Milk wrote:
Great goals! Mine are alot like yours, also into the survival stuff. Went into the mountains 2 months ago with a friend and it rocked. You should watch dual survival also, really cool :D.
On ur liefestyle goals, Ive read both books and theyre cool but not really worth it. Most of the stuff you already know in some kind of way. When you finish reading another one of these books you just try a new format or some tricks that worked for someone else. I dont know if you read alot of those self help or self help managment books, if you do i have a great tip for you. STOP reading those books and let stuff come from your own self. Just go with the flow.
For an example, the goals you set for poker are the ones that work for you. You found out after a couple of years. This way of working makes you stay happy and less stressed out. Do this shit for everything you do. The moment i figured this out i lost so much stress.. |
Never read one. Only read a little bit about them. Figured I'd like the ideas and I want to know a little bit more about them. |
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