Reflection on the current challenge
It has been 28 days or 4 weeks already. Time really flies very fast when you keep yourself busy. It works best when you keep yourself busy with things that you decide to keep yourself busy with!
What happened during these 4 weeks?
Well my studying is 1st thing for sure. I am feeling empty without studying single day. I don't think I will give that habit up ever again having realized how much more I can improve to become the master in my field. So 30 hours in 28 days is excellent compared with all the other things that are going on parallel with it. 2 edges that were covered so far and are being reviewed now are applied in the games often and results are already following on 30s vs tons of regs.
CrossFit. I had to cancel my membership simply because it is on the other way of the town and I loose minimum 6 hours a week when I go there come back take a shower prepare stuff look for car and parking etc. So the biggest concern here was if I would go out of shape, gain weight and feel less energized. 4 weeks later I have same weight and work out at home like a fanatic so things are great so far!
Great thing is that my fanatic approach pushes me daily and I work out at home. I do mostly squats + push ups + burpees. My workouts are newer more than 20 minutes long but they are very intensive and I breath with difficulty + sweat heavily so GG.
I think our neighbors are probably not to happy to listen to burpee jumping between 8 to 10am but that's the price you pay when you live in the building.
Coaching. Kept doing it with very solid hours for all my students! Regardless of the fact that best and maximum +EV would be to dedicate all my hours to recording automated coaching videos, I still want to keep and give huge value to my students both via videos and live coaching. So 45 hours in 28 days out of 100 hours set, on a pretty good way to overcome the hours set!
Automated Coaching Videos. Set 10 , completed 14 so far. Choose one particular area and recorded 12 videos for it. 2 more videos were done for general areas and needed for future new students in the program. I am very happy that I managed to do this many videos so far.
By the end of the year realistically speaking will shoot for minimum 20 more videos. That should take care of at least 1 more area of study with assignments for students + additional videos with specialized topics. Anything above 34 recorded videos by the end of 2014 will be just outstanding accomplishment and will treat myself well for it on 1st of January!
Grinding. 1457 games in 28 days. I didn't start grinding right away, there were days off with family obligations, days off with guests coming to Nis, there were 2 days of when I got hammered with my best friend after really really long time (1 night hammered,tomorrow useless to grind fully or be totally productive so 2 days off). Regardless of it all, I am on the track with volume. 44 days remaining, I need every day to play 103-104 games to complete 6k games. Right now my sessions are divided with 60 instead of 50 games like before or 75. I find that is the good way to go for 120 games a day which should eventually get me a day off by the end of the year also + help with 1k per day VPP count in 2015!
So no worries with grind, there will be days when I will go for 150 or even 200 games especially if I don't have live coaching obligations on those days.
Overall this challenge so far has shown very effective and positive. I am very happy with results produced so far. My motivation, determination and grit is on very high level and feel like nothing can stop me from my mission set in all those areas.
For the end, I strongly suggest all of you who follow the blog and are in doubts about doing something similar to do it without any regrets!
Once you set goals and challenges, form strong habit, base these goals and challenges on your internal belief, the energy and automation comes naturally and it becomes part of who you are.
I am now sacrificing time with family, other friends, having some long term girlfriend when doing this fanatic approach but I choose to do so rightly. In order for me to do Jazz album, perform, move to Belgrade, I have to take care of coaching program, automate it to the maximum and besides it make next year all about grinding to help my father with apartment mortgage (plan to pay it in full in 2015). After these 2 things are dealt with, I can pull the breaks in poker, move and do music, still grind and coach to make enough money to sustain normal lifestyle and have more balanced lifestyle.
Until then and even beyond, I am always up and ready for fanatic approach and the mindset. I just hope that in this future period my brother will find in him fanatic mindset and work even harder to become winner and make money he needs for his life expenses since he really wasted a lot of precious time so far in 2014 where he could have accomplished such things already. I pray for him to accomplish those things in following 44 days also.
Finally, thanks for following the challenge and the updates. It has been great 4 weeks and here is to next 44 days for me to maintain the momentum and crush even harder in all the areas set ♠_love: