Online Cash Session and Concept (8/23/2016)

Will post my results a the end of the night.  Also will keep a running update here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Learn100NLpoker/comments/4z9jt1/brain_dump_post_and_cash_session_82316/

Here is a concept I thought of for professional cash grinders and getting the necessary volume in:

Concept: forcing daily action (one table at required start time) to force volume online.

Discipline is something that needs to be earned and re-earned by establishing daily effective habits over a long period of time.

A long time ago discipline was beat into me (mostly by family).  It stayed with me through most of my poker career; but somewhere along the way I lost it.  I now struggle to get it back at times.  But today will be different; there will be forced action going forward. 

My burning desire to be be the best possible version of myself is strong again, but I now find myself needing to use that to force discipline to log enough playing hours in a given week.

Poker is long from the 'magic carpet ride' it was when I started playing.  There needs to be a structure in place or I simply won't get the hours I need in anymore.

This structure is simple:  At the week write down how many hours you need to play as a professional poker player and distribute where you like.  Now go get em right! 

At the beginning of this week I had my hours filled out.  I knew I was supposed to play cash online Tuesday for 5 hours. I knew I had to play today at 5p.m...

This is where I seem to struggle where 2 years ago I wouldn't have...

The next step today should have been FORCING THE MARKED START TIME at 5p.m. I missed the start time, which is inexcusible but I think it's important to enforce daily online start times as a daily effective habit by getting that first table up and running no matter what. 

To do this on Thursday I have a marked start time at 4p.m. I will have ONE TABLE UP AT 4P.M. If I don't want to prepare properly that's on me, but that table needs to go up and force action.

If I do this enough it will become a daily effective habit of forcing action. The act of forcing one table to start is important in itself; it forces the mind into action. I'm experimenting doing this and then doing everything else (that I normally would have done first) the meditation, warm-up, etc, etc ,etc.

Force the action daily.

I need accountability so I will post in the comments here.  Next comment should be Thursday at 4p.m where I GET THE TABLE IN PLAY or face formidable embarassment since I already wrote here that I would play at 4p.m on Thursday and at least get in 6 hours.