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@Cam Adair I have no idea . Day 17 + 18 Soo I don´t know if this is a Canadian/American thing (I am actually pretty sure it is ) but we don´t use "How are you?" as a corvesation starter very oftren, this is such a stupid way to kill a conversation in the start. I don´t even know if I have ever used it. You can always kinda guess how is the person feeling at the moment, and if you feel like he´s happy, sad or w/e you can as acordingly to his mood. "Something like you seem to be a bit sad did anything happen?" "Why are so pissed off?" Here and there I meet people who use it, but I don´t thing I have ever used this so yeah. I work in a hotel where I get to meet a lot of poeple and have these types of conversations, also I like to joke with employers of supermarkets and shops if I feel like they ar ein the mood . I actually think I am overall pretty good at conversating whether it is short random conversation or some kind of long and deep conversation. I don´t introduce myself only if I know I am going to be meeting that person again tho. For day 19 I am trying to find some places in Prague, I am also going to a swing concert so I guess that counts aswell.

@Cam Adair the challenge, I still didnt compliment a hot grill . Day 16 I actually like my voice lol . I am pretty happy with the way I talk, I don´t think I have ever talked with the SR voice in my life, mabye it´s becuase I am Czech Idk, but I tried it and sounded a bit like a homo (no ofense), I tried to do the BR thing also and I it looked like my monitor really pissed me off . That´s it for today.

thank you. Day 15 So I tried to think of some things and I can´t really think of anything particular I am really scared of, other than a mission on day 8 . I will try to take some time, otherwise today was a pretty good day but I have troubles keeping up with the schedule wich is making me a bit sad. I still do the "hardest" things done, but i didnt play harp for a while and piano. I guess that´s it for today .

Day 14 of QGC, 75th day of no gaming, 1 week of nofap Soo this felt pretty hard. I opened my eyes couple of times becuase I would always hear a weird sound and I had to look because I was curious. I also had trouble concetrating for such a long time and I felt like my mind was wondering too much. Otherwise I am pretty happy with how other things go. I scheduled a lot of things for today but I slept 2 more hours than I wanted so my schedule was kinda screwed over so I didnt do a lot of things, but atleast I knew what I wanted to do and I was intentionall with my activities. Good day overall!

@Cam Adair I don´t really measure it but I think I drink enough. Especially when I feel like I am about to have a headache I ted to drink even more. I think I was just a bit sick yesterday. Day 13 So I did get rid some of the things I wrote on the list. On of the things was to reply to my "friend" who dumped on my birthday party for no real reason, and now was apologizing/making excuses. So now I am kinda trying to explain to him what it meant to me and other emotional stuff... I also replied to one of my old friends who wanted to meet and I was kinda ignoring her for 1 year almost. I also did some of the more boring and annyoing stuff. Overall I feel really great and I will try to complete this list as fast as I can. I will also try to write it once a week and see if I have anything to complete hopefully it will get smaller as the weeks pass and I will be doing things asap. I will also try to complete day 9 challenge which I still didn ´t try . At last I would like to say that I feel really great for last few days, I know that I won´t feel like this forever but right now I am enjoying the moment. I am also trying to implement Slight Edge phylosophy more and more and it feels great. I also finally think that I understand this saying: It´s not about the destination, it´s about the journey. Don´t get me wrong I still think a lot about the future and I hope I will keep improving. But I am FINALLY feeling like I am also living and enjoying the present. I also realised that I am getting close to 90 days of not touching a single video game -> I am not planning to play again but it just feels great. This is enough for today I think - Thank you Cam :-)

Day 11 + 12 Okay so since I have been doing a cold showers for a while now, I decided to skip to day 12 and try working out in the morning. I had pretty bad headache in the morning tho, and it I felt super tired mabye I need to get used to it, I am not sure. Otherwise I would say I am pretty happy with how the things are going, I am still trying to get better at the time managment, I downloaded "TimeTune" so I can have schedule for whole day.

Day 11 + 12 I had a birthday party on my weekend house so I am going to act like these days did not happen , but I will do update tomorrow.

Yeah I tried a bit too much to be funny and couldn´t get really relaxd, but I guess the beauty of this thing that it will be much easier next time .

@WorkInProgress You can do it buddy it is not that hard. Just go to a center of your city, and look for some alone relaxed person (that is what I did atleast) also the point is to ask them not to get photo, this one really helped me. I had a ton non-cringey conversations with complete strangers without a single problem. It felt so easy and natural to me after taking that selfie. @Cam Adair Yeah I know, it wasn´t that bad after all . Thank you for these positive comments both of you! Day 8 I can´t force myself to do it, or I feel like I can´t find the right moment or girl. I hope I can do it one day but not now . Otherwise everything is pretty great. I found out that if I don´t wake up before 8 o clock I am kinda useless for the rest of the day. I try to plan most of my stuff for the upcoming day and I am getting lot of my dutties (like doctors and other things which I have been procrastinating for awhile) Done! I try to read a bit of Slight Edge everyday, that book really inspires me and motivates me. I also so far read more than the day before which is a good sign I think. Day 9 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zEbkoKHfn4&feature=youtu.be uhm, I tried to do some freestylin but it didn´t go that well , well I told to myself that I will post here the 1st video I will take so there you go . Otherwise no updates on the compliment thing...

Day 7 of QGC Soo I had pretty big troubles to persuade myself to actually ask fr a photo,but the I found out my phone is about to run out of battery and I didn´t have a way to actually charge it, so I went to first aone person I saw and asked him for a selfie . The photos are pretty bad quality, and Iook retarded becuase I was focusing on the photo so much and it still did not zoom the text on the paper . But here is the proof . I also think the arrow was pointing in the other direction but I am not sure about it. I might try it once again to make a better photo, because this was a lot of fun and I felt great afterwards. Overall my mood over last days has swinged insanely and I have been feeling really great lately .

That would be awesome . Day 6 of QGC WOOO, this day was really good. My brother came drunk home yesterday again, so he woke me up at like 2 am, I wanted to make atleast some good use of the time so I read a bit more of Slight Edge, well as I kept reading I felt like the book was talking straight to me. I had nothing to lose pretty much. So I just went to my older brothers room and asked him to go to sleep, well... he said "okay". Aaand I got a bit more of a sleep than yesterday . I did everything as I planned in the morning, I woke up, did the second day of meditation, went for a cold shower, made some good tea and breakfast, and then tried to get back to grattitude thing again. Yesterday I couldn´t think of more than 4 things so I gave it up after few minutes. Today, I just took my pen a piece of paper and wrote one thing after another, I stopped at 11 and had another great things popping in my head. So I tried to think of them all as I was preparing to go to work. On my way work I went to starbucks, ordered flatwhite, and asked for the 10% discount. She asked me why should she give me a dicount and I said that I have no good reason for a discount, I just wanted to ask... Well, that was pretty much all, after her colleague asked me what was taht supposed to be, whether or not I was just testing them, or trying my charm. I told her that it was some kind of challenge and that was it. I had a very mixed feeling afterwards, I felt happy that I made it, I felt WAAay more confident actually, I also felt a bit criengy and embarrassed after a while but those negative emotions, were not nearly as strong as the positive ones. After that I had a really good day, I was energetic, comunicative, focused on my work, I also got tons of tips from the customers. I also met me new colleague, and I had a really nice chat with her after a work. Overall it was an awesome day, and I hope tomorrow will be just as good.

@Cam I am trying to, I am just really bus atm. I have been helping my grandma a with some stuff and I also had some unexpected journeys in the car I had to take. I am also being really bussy because I have to work 12 hours/per day, for these 3 days so I am glad, that I am able to write something in the journal and do my other stuff I promised myself to do. Day 5 So, this was the first time I tried meditation, I was actually really pissed before I started meditating (I slept 3 hours cause my brother came home drunk and woke me up, then refused to go to sleep and kept me awake for another 2 hours. I had also an argument in the morning). After the meditation I felt like I calmed down a lot. wich is a good thing, I am definitely going to implement that into my morning routine. This is my visionboard: Piano and harp represent my love for music, whether it is listening to it or playing these instruments, this is something that I can always go back to when I am feeling down. The picture in the right corer is picture of Norway. This is a place I want to visit for a long time and if I dont manage to convince on of my friends to go there with me, I think I will go there by myself. The windsurfing guy represents thing I was doing whole summer. I was working abroad, taking care of windsurfers and I was windsurfing whole day wich was pretty nice. The quote from Mark Twain is something how I would like to live my life, but I can´t really manage to do it because of constant fear of rejection and failure. Last picture does represent my passion for traveling, once I gather enough money I would like to travel a lot. Overall the visionboard is lacking a lot of things, but I wanted to put together something before I go to sleep. I will post here new one in Tuesday (btw: normaly I would just say in few days or something like that, but I am actually trying to schedule my time see Cam? I am unfortunately just very bad at this, its getting better tho, I finally got a diary and I am trying to make longer plans than actually randomly deciding stuff at the last moment - This is something I have been doing for my whole life.) where I will also include my passion for Weightlifting, I also want to put something mediation related so I keep taht in mind and some other things. Things I am grateful for: Comfy bed, this notebook, the fact that I am trying to get better at time managment, ugh... this is hard, guess I am too tired to be thankfull for things, oh yeah one last thing - the fact that Cam is actualy reading my journal and trying to help me. Overall, I am coming trough a lot of changes and I have been really confused lately about myself, I have moments when everything looks super good, and then I have moments like my last 3 days. Good thing is - It can only get better :-)

Day 3 and 4 of QGC It is pretty late so I am going to make it short. My time managment is terrible. I was also really bussy today and yesterday, so yesterday I even skipped the challenge which I felt really guilty today so I told to myself that I will read the first bit no matter what. Slight Edge seems really awesome and nice to read (even tho english is not my native language) and in the 1st time of my life I am actually excited to read a book! My morning routine: Wake up at 6, meditate (I am curious how this one will go), have a cold shower, eat some scrambled eggs, and get to work, I have 1,25 hour to all of this so I should be ok. I will try to move my alarm half an hour earlier so I can read in the morning but one step at a time (I was used to wake up at 9 for last few months). I will try to read in the subway + I have should have some time to read in the work I also found out that (today ) that reading before you go to bed is pretty nice. @Cam Adair Well, it is hard to explain but playing harmonica is kinda like singing, u sometimes hit the right notes and sometimes you dont (if you press one key on the piano its always the same note, if you draw one hole on harmonica it could be 4 different notes) so I can play Georgia right now but it wouldn´t be really nice to hear. Bending is something you can always get better at. But! I will publish my "cover" at the end of the april. ALSO NOTE TO MYSELF: TOHLE BYLO NAPOSLED COS NESPLNIL MISI V ČAS TY LÍNEJ KRYPLE!

Day 2 Allright, so I don´t really know if these aren´t more of a goals rather than projects but this is the best I could think of for now. Let´s start with the happiness part (it my turn into a wealth one day, also who knows?). So I have been playing piano since I was 6 years old. I was playing classical music for most of my life but at the end I got kinda bored of it and started to play jazz. I always really liked this type of music and admired people who could improvise for hours without repeating themselves over and over. Well, it has been over 3 years now and I am stil really bad, I have troubles finding the right cords and their "alternations"(? sorry I don´t really know the english terminology in this one) I also still can play only (if even) one scale belonging to the given cord so my improvisation gets really monotone/boring and quite annoying after certain amount of time (even to myself ). I also have been playing diatonic harmonica for 1,5 years and my progress is much more visible, but I guess that´s more due to a fact that I am playing mostly blues wich is much less complicated and it is also easier to make visible progress when you start from scratch. Sooo my project will be playing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyHAzlaKF2I this version of Georgia on harp (wich is pretty hard becuase you have to bend tons of notes wich I am sometimes struggeling with) + create my own piano backing without using any notes and being able to play it more times without (ideally) repeating myself. Mabye I could post it here if I will be satisfied with the final product. For the wealth part I still have to prepare for the entrance exams wich will be June, they are nothing too hard and I should be more than prepared in few weeks, but the is no reason to be procrastinating it more and then catching up to do it on last minute. (I know this is rather a goal than a project but I don´t really know what project I should create with math I guess I am the project in this case lol). So at the end of the challenge I want to be able to write the sample test on 85% atleast (50% is minimum required to be accepted). Health - I´ll just keep working out, I also want to start meditation and add some kind of cardio for the summer . Mah "impossible" bucket list: Master these - piano/harp/guitar, Be fluent in German/Russian/Spanish, get the grill of my dreams, be happy/have a deep relationship, get really good at windsurfing, master some kind of martial art, get more muscles, loose a bit more of fat, travel around the world Sweden/USA idk there is tons of places I want to go , make tons of money/make a good use of it->inspire people/help people/travel/enjoy life n stuff... , be more athletic learn muscle ups/handstands/some jumps and kicks - all that cool stuff that "Ido Portal" does So yeah there is tons of other things that I would like to learn or try, places to visit, people to meet, but at the end of the day I want to spend good times with my friends and family and be happy overall.

WorkInProgress: Thank you for sending me that article, I knew that honesty is something girls are attracted to, but I was afraid that if I open up too much I might just sound weird/creepy/desperate, I thought I had to be "flawless" with everything conversation-related. I guess showing her right amount of a "weak" side can ease the situation a bit. I will definitely try to keep that on my mind next time I talk to the "right one" . Anyways thank you for your comment, I´ll definitely be updating my journal, Good luck on your journey! Cam: If you do some kind of a meet up in Czech republic, you can definitely count me in! Thank you for creating so much awesome content. Your dedication and passion for this problem is truly inspiring to me. Wish you the best!