I need to see a shrink I have been struggling of late with my poker but I am not talking about the results……the way that I play when I multi-table NL100 full ring with a great rake deal means that profits are basically automatic. However it is because they are automatic that I get bored and poker at that level no longer seems a challenge. So I am going through a horrible phase where I am struggling to motivate myself to even turn the computer on.

There is no doubt that I have always had idle tendencies. I like the thought of beating something and this is what attracted me to trading. But once I have found a way to beat something then it starts to bore me. This happened with blackjack, SNG’s, limit hold’em and now no limit hold’em. Now in no way am I saying that I have the game absolutely sussed because you simply never stop learning about poker. However it is almost as if the learning has finished at the level that I play at because I don’t need to learn anymore to make money at the level. So now poker is becoming a very boring job and it isn’t something that I relish doing for the rest of my life.

So I need to certainly chop up my week and starting shortly I intend to break my week down into thirds by doing one third writing, one third playing poker and one third trading on the betting exchanges. If I do a 50 hour week then I will be doing around 16-17 hours of each. However the motivation to do anything is becoming a problem and I go through phases like this and I have been no different in all of the jobs that I have ever been in.

After a while I just crave to do something else and that could be play golf or simply sit and watch television. All of this of course does your earnings little good and I am shaping up to earn less this year than I did last year but that is simply because I am playing far less poker. So I have purchased a couple of good books of late to help me in this area and I have also been rereading a very good book that I have got on NLP which is neuro-linguistic programming.

This is an area that involves training your brain and mind to do what you want it to and to erase harmful traits. My main goal over the coming months is to try and re-motivate myself with my poker and I don’t know as yet how I am going to do that. I normally try and set myself challenges and this was part of my reason to do the $100-$10k challenge. But when that made $10k then I needed another challenge and that was to reach $100k. So I will be going back to the shrinks couch so to speak over the next few weeks to see if my state of mind can be improved.

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