I need a mentor (lc)

[PinkSteel]

I'm in a bad rut, and one of you guys has to talk me out of it.

The brief history: Started playing online about a year ago, bought the books, read most of them, invested $100, donked around everywhere on Party -- SNGs, cash limit & NL. Eventually put in $600 total, discovered 2+2 after 4 or 5 months, focused on cash NL, turned the game around, and slowly but surely, over about 5 months, won month after month and built a roll to $1100.

Then I took a shot at $50s and went on some weird kind of long-term tilt, doing just plain dumb, undisciplined stuff, back through the $25s and all the way down to $300 in the account. You know -- "call his raise anyway, see what he has, damn he had it", etc.

I have the grey matter to beat the game, but I often lack the patience. My day job earns me a comfortable six figures, so it's hard to take the dollars seriously at $25NL, which is definitely part of my problem. But I just can't buy the "move up now, you'll take the game more seriously" line, for obvious reasons (i.e., what if, in fact, I SUCK?). The day job is also hard work, and I have a family to support, so time is limited.

But if I'm going to play this damn game, I demand of myself that I play it successfully.

So what do I do next? I've been playing some 1-table SNGs again, and beating the snot out of them -- maybe luck, but what I've learned on this forum those guys don't seem to have any clue about. Should I just shift gears back to SNG until I've rebuilt the roll?

Somebody take me under their wing, give me some good advice, smack me around. Thanks for any input.