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Old 12-11-2005, 01:46 PM
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Default How to be productive with LIFE? (3hrs poker, other 13hrs wasted) :(

i'm surviving off poker right now. (jan= 1yr mark)

i see this great opportunity in front of me with all this free time, yet i'm wasting it.

i play ~20hrs/week so that's about 3hrs/day. i'm wasting the other 13hrs with surfing the web, tv, or day dreaming. (i cant get myself to play more than ~3hrs/day.)

there are a few hrs here and there where i hang out with friends or do something productive. I've also traveled some... Vegas, San Fran, NY.

but a vast majority of the time i feel like i'm wasting it.

Why am i not seizing the moment? Why am i not taking advantage of this opportunity?

And how to break out of it?

THX!
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Old 12-11-2005, 04:28 PM
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Default Re: How to be productive with LIFE? (3hrs poker, other 13hrs wasted) :

I don't know, you sound crazy.

Go shopping. Fix something. Decorate something. Start some sort of collection.

Start running, fishing, join a club, do charity.

You are crazy for being so lazy.
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Old 12-11-2005, 05:21 PM
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Default Re: How to be productive with LIFE? (3hrs poker, other 13hrs wasted) :

I'm just like you. Except I never consider time spent doing what I want to do as being "wasted."
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Old 12-11-2005, 05:22 PM
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Default Re: How to be productive with LIFE? (3hrs poker, other 13hrs wasted) :

Start smoking weed.
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Old 12-11-2005, 05:30 PM
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Default Re: How to be productive with LIFE? (3hrs poker, other 13hrs wasted) :

too bad you had to start and end your post in such a poor manner.
this is good advice and I think I will take you up on it.

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Go shopping. Fix something. Decorate something. Start some sort of collection.

Start running, fishing, join a club, do charity.


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Old 12-11-2005, 05:45 PM
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Default Re: How to be productive with LIFE? (3hrs poker, other 13hrs wasted) :

How about taking a class offered by your community or something? Cooking, excercise, art? Basically, just get out where you'll meet other people.
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Old 12-12-2005, 07:41 AM
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Default Re: How to be productive with LIFE? (3hrs poker, other 13hrs wasted) :

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Start smoking weed.

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Old 12-12-2005, 10:10 AM
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Default Re: How to be productive with LIFE? (3hrs poker, other 13hrs wasted) :(

There are these things called "girls."

I hear that they take a bit of time...and money, too...so you might find your poker playing time going up, so there's less time wasted, too.
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Old 12-12-2005, 11:40 AM
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Default Re: How to be productive with LIFE? (3hrs poker, other 13hrs wasted) :(

I just read a great post about someone making a living off poker, and spending a chunk of their free time doing disaster relief/volunteer work.
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Old 12-14-2005, 11:23 AM
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Default Re: How to be productive with LIFE? (3hrs poker, other 13hrs wasted) :(

Invest a little time deciding what you want to do with your time.

Make a list.

Look at it each morning. Do some of it.

Yes, it sounds too simple to be true. But maybe the only reason you keep falling into those activities that you don't think are productive is that you haven't made a choice about what to do.
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