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Hey guys. This is my first post/thread here. Hope I'm in the right section.
I don't wanna make this thread big so I'll try to resume the best I can. Sorry for any spell problems, english is not my first language.
I play poker, guitar and I have my own business. I am REALLY intense when I get to a new thing. I am a perfectionist, I know how to be productive, I can make to-do lists, and I know the benefits of a really good discipline/routine. I just started playing tennis again, having singing lessons and going to the gym next week. I was meditating 2 months ago, but now I can't stay 3 minutes and I quit. I wake up early and sleep early.
But for example when I started playing guitar I was playing 8+ hours a day, having a teacher to boost up the learning process and was loving every second of my guitar, now I simply don't feel like playing. I play 20 minutes and I stop. I see what I should get better but I don't do that. I think "well this looks like a coold song" and after 30 seconds of trying to get the song, I quit. By the way. I know that it is not good to spend insanely amount of hours in a thing, its much better to have a productive routine and discipline.
I LOVE online poker, really... I study poker, I discuss hands, I have a skype group, I review the session I just played and when I was in this routine I was really moving up the stakes and getting good/decent money, but now I just play... I don't feel like doing things like before, I wanna study but when I start I just simply want to stop. I start watching a video lesson and I stop. I start reading an awesome article that WILL improve my game and make me earn more money, I stop, I can't finish, or I read but without my entire focus.
My results are getting worse and now I'm breakeven/small loser. I know what I should do to get better, but I simply don't do that...
And about my business...I have a store, I sell clothes (mostly jeans, men and women). Well, last year I studied a lot. To be honest I was a mediocre entrepreneur and my revenue was little, but I read, studied and got lots of diplomas. I got better in every single possible thing in my business and my revenue at least doubled, it changed my life and i'm another person now. Obviously I can still get better, for example I have more than 10 books and online courses that WILL make me and my business better, for example PNL, coaching, how to speak in public, leadership, supply chain, branding, etc.
But when I get to my store, I know WHAT I should do, and how to do it. But looks like a huge switch is activated in my brain and I just wanna go home, I try... but I do half the things I was supposed to do at best. So when I was studying and applying and living and breathing my own business everything was going fine and the revenue was just getting bigger, now it is stuck (it still positive, but I know it can get MUCH better) and I am having this problem with mindset or mindset. I don't feel the same as before.
Its not just that... my social life is pretty bad, when I hang out with friends I go out for 1 or 2 hours and I just wanna go home. Seems like I can't finish what I started, even movies I don't finish... I watch the first half in one day and the other next day. Video games I can't play anymore, I mean... I play like 30 minutes or 1 hour and I don't feel like playing. Everything that I start I don't finish, I make lists and finish half of the list. I know WHAT, HOW and WHEN to do, what to improve. But I lack of something... I don't know if it is motivation issue, or if I'm depressed or something.
My business is obviously my primary target, I wanna have a supply chain, I wanna construct a nice branding. I probably open my second store in 4 months top (that is a fact). But I know I can do better and I have to improve lots of aspects and process in my business, and I can name WHAT I should do and what I can do it RIGHT now, but I don't have the "strength" or motivation, its like I'm waiting for a day to wake up with a sick motivation (it happens a lot) and do everything that I should have done days/months ago.
The poker and guitar is like a hobby but I just wish I could do all 3 with perfection or at least be really really good. I just feel i'm not being the best I can be.
tl;dr
I am stuck, I can't finish things that I start.
I love/like 3 things. Guitar, poker and my business. And everything that comes with those (like discipline, routine, mindset, speaking in public, improving the person I am, etc.) 3. I study and get better. But then I stop doing the things that I was doing and lose the motivation.
I know what I should improve, how to do the things right, and the most special thing is that I know how to learn the steps, I have plenty of creativity which helps a lot. But I don't "feel like doing it".
I don't wanna make this thread big so I'll try to resume the best I can. Sorry for any spell problems, english is not my first language.
I play poker, guitar and I have my own business. I am REALLY intense when I get to a new thing. I am a perfectionist, I know how to be productive, I can make to-do lists, and I know the benefits of a really good discipline/routine. I just started playing tennis again, having singing lessons and going to the gym next week. I was meditating 2 months ago, but now I can't stay 3 minutes and I quit. I wake up early and sleep early.
But for example when I started playing guitar I was playing 8+ hours a day, having a teacher to boost up the learning process and was loving every second of my guitar, now I simply don't feel like playing. I play 20 minutes and I stop. I see what I should get better but I don't do that. I think "well this looks like a coold song" and after 30 seconds of trying to get the song, I quit. By the way. I know that it is not good to spend insanely amount of hours in a thing, its much better to have a productive routine and discipline.
I LOVE online poker, really... I study poker, I discuss hands, I have a skype group, I review the session I just played and when I was in this routine I was really moving up the stakes and getting good/decent money, but now I just play... I don't feel like doing things like before, I wanna study but when I start I just simply want to stop. I start watching a video lesson and I stop. I start reading an awesome article that WILL improve my game and make me earn more money, I stop, I can't finish, or I read but without my entire focus.
My results are getting worse and now I'm breakeven/small loser. I know what I should do to get better, but I simply don't do that...
And about my business...I have a store, I sell clothes (mostly jeans, men and women). Well, last year I studied a lot. To be honest I was a mediocre entrepreneur and my revenue was little, but I read, studied and got lots of diplomas. I got better in every single possible thing in my business and my revenue at least doubled, it changed my life and i'm another person now. Obviously I can still get better, for example I have more than 10 books and online courses that WILL make me and my business better, for example PNL, coaching, how to speak in public, leadership, supply chain, branding, etc.
But when I get to my store, I know WHAT I should do, and how to do it. But looks like a huge switch is activated in my brain and I just wanna go home, I try... but I do half the things I was supposed to do at best. So when I was studying and applying and living and breathing my own business everything was going fine and the revenue was just getting bigger, now it is stuck (it still positive, but I know it can get MUCH better) and I am having this problem with mindset or mindset. I don't feel the same as before.
Its not just that... my social life is pretty bad, when I hang out with friends I go out for 1 or 2 hours and I just wanna go home. Seems like I can't finish what I started, even movies I don't finish... I watch the first half in one day and the other next day. Video games I can't play anymore, I mean... I play like 30 minutes or 1 hour and I don't feel like playing. Everything that I start I don't finish, I make lists and finish half of the list. I know WHAT, HOW and WHEN to do, what to improve. But I lack of something... I don't know if it is motivation issue, or if I'm depressed or something.
My business is obviously my primary target, I wanna have a supply chain, I wanna construct a nice branding. I probably open my second store in 4 months top (that is a fact). But I know I can do better and I have to improve lots of aspects and process in my business, and I can name WHAT I should do and what I can do it RIGHT now, but I don't have the "strength" or motivation, its like I'm waiting for a day to wake up with a sick motivation (it happens a lot) and do everything that I should have done days/months ago.
The poker and guitar is like a hobby but I just wish I could do all 3 with perfection or at least be really really good. I just feel i'm not being the best I can be.
tl;dr
I am stuck, I can't finish things that I start.
I love/like 3 things. Guitar, poker and my business. And everything that comes with those (like discipline, routine, mindset, speaking in public, improving the person I am, etc.) 3. I study and get better. But then I stop doing the things that I was doing and lose the motivation.
I know what I should improve, how to do the things right, and the most special thing is that I know how to learn the steps, I have plenty of creativity which helps a lot. But I don't "feel like doing it".
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