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However, playing poker is very much like driving an old car up a steep hill. You will make steady progress as long you keep the gas pedal down. But once you let off the pedal, the car will come to a quick halt. Worse still, if you don't get it going again quickly, it will start going backwards down the hill.
You must continuously strive to improve your game. Even though you may only notice a slow, gradual improvement, it is important to keep that momentum going. As soon as you stop trying to improve, your game will stagnate and then regress, just as surely as the old car rolling back down the hill.
New poker players, if they are serious about the game, are often eager lo learn and will process and absorb a lot of information very quickly. As a result, their game progresses in leaps and bounds for the first few months, and they observe consistent improvement after that. However, many get to the point where they lose the enthusiasm to learn. They slart spending the time they used to spend studying poker by simply playing, or maybe they start spending it on the golf course. They rely on fewer and fewer information sources, until eventually their poker education is limited to a cursory look through a poker magazine while waiting for a table.
Action Point: Think back to when you first started playing poker and try to remember how keen you were to learn. Are you less keen now when it comes to studying poker? If so, why?
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Extract from The Poker Mindset.
I have learned this from my own experience too. When you stop improving your poker (aka study&co) and decide to just play... you first stagnate, then start going down.
I've also written shortly about this in supeyrio's blog.
Originally posted by Gabinr1
3)my time set for study vs play is too unbalance, i play wayyyyy to much than i study.
I do this too.
I noticed that when I have runs where I don't study at all but just play, I always end up losing money... the game deteriorates till a point where you get on the red. I don't know if it's just variance or you start playing bad, but always studying is surely +EV.
Good luck mate! Hope you turn things around
This is good information to remember. Always study and improve.
Cheers and Good Luck! 
I am from Romania too and i would like to learn some things from you and some advices would be perfect. Good luck and i will keep readig your blog.
I appreciate that. :*