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58/90 without any LoL Content | Played Instrument: Yes! | Coding: Yes! | Learned for driving license: Yes! | Writing in my Journal: Yes, right now! good day overall I think. Did all my tasks, went then to the city to buy some things. Was on a party atthe evening, was fun. not much else to say... as usual i will be reading some journals and call it a day for today Thats all for today, see you tomorrow guys

Nothing bad at it, some normal days are pretty good!

Glad to see you here, and welcome back. However I think you are right, just not game is no solution. You have to change your whole "dopamin system" you cant do things which give you instantely dopamin. Well there are things like sport etc. this is of course something good. But not netflix youtube etc. so yea, i am looking forward to your succesful detox

57/90 without any LoL Content | Played Instrument: Yes! | Coding: Yes! | Learned for driving license: Yes! | Writing in my Journal: Yes, right now! good day overall I think. Again not very much to say. Did all my tasks pretty fast, because I knew I had a meeting at the evening. This went also good, and it feels nice to leave the house more often. I hope I can keep that up. I need to find in the near future a new coding project, because they current one i work on is nearly over. Still have something to do for it, but yea. I will read some journals now and call it a day then for today. Thats all for today, see you tomorrow guys

56/90 without any LoL Content | Played Instrument: Yes! | Coding: Yes! | Learned for driving license: Yes! | Writing in my Journal: Yes, right now! good day overall. Made all my tasks pretty fast today, because I had to learn with my silbling and had a meeting in the evening. Went all good its late again, so a bit short journal entry today Thats all for today, see you tomorrow guys

Nice deku, keep going, you are doing so good lately :)

55/90 without any LoL Content | Played Instrument: Yes! | Coding: Yes! | Learned for driving license: Yes! | Writing in my Journal: Yes, right now! good day overall I think. Like usually did my tasks, but this time I stopped them when I did enough for me. So I was free of displays afternoon. I hope I can keep that up. Yea, learned again with my silbling for school and for myself. Not much else to say about today. Oh yea, I had a good idea to make learning for driving license easier for me. I coded a little tool which helps me. Feels good to use the learned stuff to actually do something which is helpful. Usually I only do things, so i learn, they are not really useful. Thats all for today, see you tomorrow guys

Its true that good grades can replace the "winning" part in games. Not exactly but yes, it definetely helps. However I wouldnt rely to do is. To be honest its not very hard to be on track while life goes good. But what if it doesnt goe as planned? We all know life is not linear, there will always a step back. Its important to stay strong at those times. Because if you not stay strong in the hard times, you cant get over them!

Welcome here mate. I had the same thoughts with LoL thinking that I could earn money while playing. But that would mean: play 24/7 not because u want to earn money, simply because u have to play so much otherwise you will not keep up with other high elo players. And is this really what you want to do? Never going outside, just playing games? Sad life imo, and so I said no. I am glad that you do that too. I wish you the best mate, looking forward to your journal.

54/90 without any LoL Content | Played Instrument: Yes! | Coding: Yes! | Learned for driving license: Yes! | Writing in my Journal: Yes, right now! good day overall I think. Did some sport today outside, was fun. Went over to my tasks after that. Again I saw a problem in what I do currently: I do my tasks but when I finished my daily goal of 1hour etc. i keep doing it. This would be no problem, because it is productive, but because its a computer activity(coding, learning fir driving license, uploading yt videos) its not good for me(i want to reduce online time). So i will try to do my tasks all for 1hour max2h and then close the laptop till evening. yea rest of the day didnt do much. Again a bit learning with my silbling and yea. Thats all for today, see you tomorrow guys

Wish you the best!

I am new to programming mate, I am learning python currently. So I am making many small things, no huge projects currently. But ill look forward to be experienced enough one day to start some big projects :) 53/90 without any LoL Content | Played Instrument: Yes! | Coding: Yes! | Learned for driving license: Yes! | Writing in my Journal: Yes, right now! good day overall. Woke up, went to the supermarket got some breakfast for the family. The whole afternoon was pretty much learning with my silbling for school, so nice and productive. After that went to my tasks. I didnt have so much time, but did everything. Yea, now just grinding a bit like usually. Reading some journals and call it a day then Thats all for today, see you tomorrow guys

52/90 without any LoL Content | Played Instrument: Yes! | Coding: Yes! | Learned for driving license: Yes! | Writing in my Journal: Yes, right now! good day overall I think. Went to the city with my family bought some clothes, got another book(didnt like the one I mentioned sometime ago) too. Yea, rest of the day I did my tasks. I am making good progress at coding. Other things are going good too, progress with my instrument stuck a bit, because I am currently learning a hard music piece. Thats all for today, see you tomorrow guys

Its a pleasure. We are here to help each other. 51/90 without any LoL Content | Played Instrument: Yes! | Coding: Yes! | Learned for driving license: Yes! | Writing in my Journal: Yes, right now! good day overall I think. Pretty basic day. But it is again one of them in which I feel again I am still too much at the computer. I mean, yes, I do mostly productive things. I try to earn money, learn things etc. But sometimes I feel like its not worth it. Really dont know an answer to it. In numbers: usually I am having "work time" from 12-9pm, before and after it I grind, watching a bit youtube, checking news, politics, how I can progress in other areas etc. so even the grind time(5-6hours) is not completely wasted. I get many informations, which I can use someday, but it still takes too much time imo. And I also know this problem is common. When you stop surfing you start to think u are not more uptodate(in every meaning). But this is not bad. Not knowing things is better than knowing everything. I need to learn that. So in short: I want to reduce my computer time more. Need to figure out how. Well first step i mentioned way earlier. I wanted to join a sport club so at least 2-3 time per week i am not at home for 2-3 hours. Ill keep that in mind. I will read some journals and call it a day(while reading in my new book) Thats all for today, see you tomorrow guys

Thank you very much, mate! Wish and hope for u the same 50/90 without any LoL Content | Played Instrument: Yes! | Coding: Yes! | Learned for driving license: Yes! | Writing in my Journal: Yes, right now! good day overall I think. Did all my tasks again, uploaded some youtube vids and yea. Not much more to say. I got a book as a present for new year. Normally I surf 30min before in the bed before I sleep. Some weeks ago I had a book I read before sleeping, but when i finished it i started again surfing. Now because I got a book again, i can read again. Thats nice. Will read like usual journal and call it a day then Thats all for today, see you tomorrow guys

We all probably know what you are feeling right now. You want to play so badly and you even push yourself to the moment you will say yes to"hey one game". We all know that from ourselves. In the end we can talk much but its about what you want to do. I want you to say clearly "STOP" when ever you think about gaming. It just seems like we cant handle our thoughts, but we can. So just handle them while saying loud "STOP". Stop even think about letting yourself play, because i surely now you just want to allow yourself to play. Maybe just think about the fact also that you will be just one of those gamers again as soon as you relapse. No sense in life, thinking a to be good at a game is important and means something. Well yea, it means you are a no lifer without any purpose in life. You dont want to be one of them! With the advice above you will stop the urgent thoughts to play. But you have to something against the disease not the sympthom! I think your main problem is that you still didnt get used to other hobbys. You tried so much, thats nice, but in the same way, its clear you will not doing all of those frequently on a regular base. Take one or two hobbys you really want to do. By really want to do i dont mean you should compare them to gaming and think whether they are as much fun. I want you think about meaningful things to you. To those things. After you got some of those hobbys: do them frequently! I know its hard to do a podcast, i know its not easy to go yoga everytime or to do sports. Thats the point where you can lose or win. You need NEW habbits, but its hard to establish those at the beginning. But with time it will get easier and it will stop taking you effort to do them! You will enjoy them in the future! Keep that in mind You write pretty often that you dont want to do things alone. So maybe getting new friends while doing those activities would be good. Have you tried something to get in contact with someone who maybe share the same hobby? I know this is hard but you have to do that. For example I am searching a friend I can go to sports with him. But I dont find anyone. So I will join a sportsclub because there are already people who do the saming thing which I like to do. Its so much easier than asking your people in whatsapp whether they want to join you, because they usually doesnt want to do productive things like sports or maybe they just dont like the things you do. wish you the best man, keep it up

Hey, first of all: nice that you are here! Its probably the hardest step to be so honest to yourself and admit your addiction and to be clear with yourself that you never event want to game again. You are saying you wasted your life. Thats maybe true till now, you lost some time while gaming. Take it as it is, but dont blame yourself. Its gone, you cant change that. But hey, you are 16 years old. You have your whole life time to enjoy life and dont waste anymore time with things u basically dont want to do. So start to think about that! You should now think about, whether you are ready to say goodbye to every game on your computer for good and of course also saying goodbye to wasting hours over hours surfing mindless in your browser(thats a common problem too, usually people are not only addicted to gaming, they are addicted to the fast pace of the internet in general). If you are sure you want to quit for good, go ahead start your daily journal in this forum, track your days ! This will help you to stay off gaming etc. Of course you need things to replace gaming and surfing. You need hobbys which are productive and fun for you. Remember: Most of the things will not be fun when you start with them. They are slow, they dont give you the feeling from games, especially not that fast. You will need time to get used to it. An example: people try to learn an instrument as a replacement to gaming. First they dont like to play but over weeks they enjoy it! This is true for probably everything. My last advice is to go ahead and read some posts of other people. You will learn there how you can get started and what mistakes you shouldnt do. i wish you all the best!

49/90 without any LoL Content | Played Instrument: Yes! | Coding: Yes! | Learned for driving license: Yes! | Writing in my Journal: Yes, right now! good day overall I think. Did all my tasks, meet a friend today(the one who also quit games or better lol) was fun to talk to him. Not much else to say today Thats all for today, see you tomorrow guys

Your post remind me on a conversation with a friend. He is imo addicted to lol and he used to say also "where is the difference?" When I said i do xy(non productive things), or I played games with my family etc.. He always wanted to say lol isnt worse than other unprodutive things. So basically like you, why not playing, when you already waste much time. Why wasting time with semi funny things? Instead waste it with things like playing. But yea, your results on that are definetely true. Gaming is much worse than just to be not productive. Of course you should aim to bE productive.ä would write more, but its late give ur best

Definetely track the number of days! Happy new year! Wish you all the best!

48/90 without any LoL Content | Played Instrument: Yes! | Coding: Yes! | Learned for driving license: Yes! | Writing in my Journal: Yes, right now! good day overall I think. Yea new year is coming. We had a big dinner with the whole family, that was nice. Now we are waiting till we can go out to make some fireworks. Kind of a tradition but mostly for the current kids(back ago for me, now for my silbling). Still did my daily routine made all my tasks. I wish you all a happy new year! Have some fun, big party or just relax with the family, or even alone! Enjoy your time and start fresh into the new year. I wish you all the best!! Thats all for today, see you tomorrow guys

True. I am still sometimes not sure whether to post private things etc. but its anonym and even if it wouldnt be, who cares? We are working on our self. Thats nothing bad

47/90 without any LoL Content | Played Instrument: Yes! | Coding: Yes! | Learned for driving license: Yes! | Writing in my Journal: Yes, right now! good day overall I think. Did all my tasks, just not so much for my driving license. Again the problem that I push the "unpleasure" things away. Currently coding makes a lot of fun, like I mentioned some days before. Usually it was the thing I pushed away till evening(near my freetime time or even in it). But currently its more the driving license. Well but that doesnt happen so often, so its okay. But Ill have to work on that. Was also outside for some sport, was nice too. Currently its not so cold here anymore. At home are many preperations for newyear dinner. Also need to buy some fireworks, its a waste but its somehow a tradition for the kids, so we keep buying some, but not much. Thats all for today, see you tomorrow guys

46/90 without any LoL Content | Played Instrument: Yes! | Coding: Yes! | Learned for driving license: Yes! | Writing in my Journal: Yes, right now! the day was good overall I think. New Year is nearly there and my parents and my silblings went to get some presents etc. I normally use any kind of chance to leave the house for a while, but since the last time(some days ago) i went shopping with my family, I dont want to go again in the city with them:D takes ages to shop. Yea but its better to go, otherwise I dont have any things to do outside. So i went to the foodshop at evening. At least something, Did all my tasks. I dont know whether I told you already, but I am self teaching myself playing my instrument, most likely I watch youtube tutorials etc. just finished the first basic tutorials. I think that took me something about a month. Glad about that. Other things are going good too I think yea, again some journals and call it a day then. Evening routine Thats all for today, see you tomorrow guys

Deku I wanted to ask you, whether you already know what kind of doctor you want to be one day? Just curious and sometime its motivating to imagine the future. Of course not too much!