NesteaDrinker

8th March: Ah yes, the women's day and our 4th year anniversary. The day was awesome (except going to work, lol) - I bought flowers for my girl and also booked a table in the mexican themed restaurant with delicious food. After we managed to find time to test out our new boardgame- mansions of madness which is great. No drawing for today, 100% for my love. 9th March: Finally found time to draw. Standard 1 hour before work (love life drawing) and 2 hours after (drawabox). I managed to finish the motorcycle and I'm very proud of it. I had some time left so I have started doing research and collecting references for the next drawing. Before sleep we finished the first scenario of the new boardgame. Also changing dates for my goals (again). I want to spend more time on the very last exercisess from love life drawing beginner series. Goals: I will finish the drawabox course (2 studies left) by 11.05.2022 I will finish the love life drawing beginner series by 18.03.2022 I will have 800 hours on my practice counter by 01.03.2023 I will have 3000 hours on my practice counter by 01.03.2027 Practice counter: 45 hours

7th March; Qucik summary: -another non-drawing day I didn't have time for it -before work I went to the hairdresser -after work we went shopping for the whole week - it consumed a lot of time -before sleep decided spent some time with my fiancee Goals: I will finish the drawabox course (3 studies left) by 11.03.2022 (this is going to be another miscalculation for me) I will finish the love life drawing beginner series by 11.03.2022 I will have 800 hours on my practice counter by 01.03.2023 I will have 3000 hours on my practice counter by 01.03.2027 Practice counter: 42 hours

5th March and 6th March quick update: Didn't have much time to write here or even draw. We had close friends on saturday and family on sunday for the first time in new home. It was a blast but we are also very tired with my fiancee. Next week we are going to take a break from inviting people and just rest. I will finish the drawabox course (3 studies left) by 11.03.2022 (this is going to be another miscalculation for me) I will finish the love life drawing beginner series by 11.03.2022 I will have 800 hours on my practice counter by 01.03.2023 I will have 3000 hours on my practice counter by 01.03.2027 Practice counter: 42 hours

4th March: Quick summary: - another busy day - 1 hour of the shape exercise from love life drawing beginner series before work - after work obligatory meeting with residents (we were voting for different laws) - spend some time with my fiancee - 1 hour of drawing the motorcycle - basically finished the front with all the details, tommorow there is a chance to finish or be close I will finish the drawabox course (3 studies left) by 11.03.2022 (this is going to be another miscalculation for me) I will finish the love life drawing beginner series by 11.03.2022 I will have 800 hours on my practice counter by 01.03.2023 I will have 3000 hours on my practice counter by 01.03.2027 Practice counter: 42 hours

3rd March: Man, I was so busy that I'm writing this a day later. Usually I do my best to post before sleep. Quick summary of the day: - managed to practice drawing for 2 hours (one for love life drawing and one for the perspective drawing of the motorcycle - almost there to finish the motorcycle I can feel it - after work we had a lot of shopping so I didn't have time to do draw for 3 hours but 2 hours is ok too - on weekend our friends will come on saturday and parents of my fiance on sunday. Can't wait! I will finish the drawabox course (3 studies left) by 11.03.2022 (this is going to be another miscalculation for me) I will finish the love life drawing beginner series by 11.03.2022 I will have 800 hours on my practice counter by 01.03.2023 I will have 3000 hours on my practice counter by 01.03.2027 Practice counter: 40 hours

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"And I played it almost every day for 2m for 3-6 hours daily. I feel that I need to play something, but Is it not another game to be addicted from? Can someone please advise if person like me is doomed forever ? Just because I am not able to set a proper balance between life and gaming?" You're not doomed. I'm 5+ years in quitting games. I don't even know anymore how many times I relapsed. I was replacing games during those years and tried many things like mobile games, singleplayer games and such and even managed to play moderately last year but it is still supbar to dreamlife. I feel like every time I relapsed something was different. I can't tell if the intervals beetwen gaming and no gaming shortened but each time it was less destructive. After years it became a habit to break the cycle just before it gets out of control. After a year of playing in moderation (and cutting the games off when needed) I decided this is not my dream life and I'm ready to really shine. Today is my 18 day of detox and almost 5 years since I played the league last time and feel stronger than ever. The road will be bumpy but you and I - we are not doomed. I don't know how many times I will relapse from now but it doesn't matter because the breaking habits and spirit are there.

Are you still there? Hope you are going well.

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500 days is amazing! Congratulations and keep it up!

Hello and good luck!

Just noticed it's not February anymore, my bad. 2nd March: I was craving to play some mobile game today but resisted. I don't have time for it anyway, I have to focus on my 800 hours goal. Today I scored 3 hours of practice, I feel like the perspective drawing of the motorcycle never ends. I was sure I was close but after todays session I realized I that still a lot of work is left. Thankfully most of the main forms are there and tommorow I will start pushing the wheels more and detail them. I will finish the drawabox course (3 studies left) by 11.03.2022 I will finish the love life drawing beginner series by 11.03.2022 I will have 800 hours on my practice counter by 01.03.2023 I will have 3000 hours on my practice counter by 01.03.2027 Practice counter: 38 hours

1st March: Another busy day. I feel like I will finish the perspective drawing of the motorcycle soon. I was working on it for 2 hours today. Also slowly finishing the love life drawing beginner series. I was practising side and back poses for an hour. I will finish the drawabox course (3 studies left) by 11.03.2022 I will finish the love life drawing beginner series by 11.03.2022 I will have 800 hours on my practice counter by 01.03.2023 I will have 3000 hours on my practice counter by 01.03.2027 Practice counter: 35 hours

Quick reports 27th February: Did a 3 hours drawing session before our friends arrived. Love live drawing begginer series only because I was learning how to measure things and didn't want to distract myself with drawabox. 28th February: One hour before work and two after. This time mostly drawabox. I'm building up forms on my perspective drawing - this time I must succed. I will finish the drawabox course (3 studies left) by 11.03.2022 I will finish the love life drawing beginner series by 11.03.2022 I will have 800 hours on my practice counter by 01.03.2023 I will have 3000 hours on my practice counter by 01.03.2027 Practice counter: 32 hours

26th February: Today I didn't even have time to do a drawing session. Yesterday before sleep I helped my fiancee to do a pie for today's party so naturally I didn't get up earlier to draw before work. After work I was busy helping to prepare the rest of the food and then my father arrived. So looks like I had a rest day today from drawing. Gonna make sure to draw tommorow for at least 2 hours. I will finish the drawabox course (3 studies left) by 11.03.2022 I will finish the love life drawing beginner series by 11.03.2022 I will have 800 hours on my practice counter by 01.03.2023 I will have 3000 hours on my practice counter by 01.03.2027 Practice counter: 26 hours

25th February: Another productive day. Today it was harder to get up from bed because I still felt tired from yesterday's work. At least today I didn't have to do much at work so I got better during the day. After work we had to do a lot of shopping with my faincee because we invited my father for tommorow. Because of this I did 2 hours of drawing instead of 3 today but that's ok - I'll take it. For some reason I had some cravings to play crusader kings but it wasn't that strong craving like it used to be years ago when I first started taking advice from game quitters so it went gone quicly. Also haven't made it with the love life drawing goal but I know I have put 100% effort so instead of blaming the player I blame the game. I've just failed to calculate reasonable deadline and that's why I'm giving myself another 2 weeks to finish the playlist and the assigmnents. I will finish the drawabox course (3 studies left) by 11.03.2022 I will finish the love life drawing beginner series by 11.03.2022 (UPDATED DEADLINE!) I will have 800 hours on my practice counter by 01.03.2023 I will have 3000 hours on my practice counter by 01.03.2027 Practice counter: 26 hours

Hey there! Good luck and please consider doing a daily diary here on the forum - it a nice little habit that may keep you motivated to be better self!

24th February: The workload at work is getting bigger and bigger. Every day I'm going to be more exhausted with peak at may then the workload will slowly decline (I'm working at bike shop). After work I did some cleaning at home and we opened new coffe machine. Today I've spent 2 hours at practising drawing instead of 3 but thats ok. I'm going quite ok with the love life drawing beginner series but when it comes to drawabox I had to start over my perspective drawing because of some miscalculations that led to mistakes. I will finish the drawabox course (3 studies left) by 11.03.2022 I will finish the love life drawing beginner series by 25.02.2022 I will have 800 hours on my practice counter by 01.03.2023 I will have 3000 hours on my practice counter by 01.03.2027 Practice counter: 24 hours (yay! one day!)

Just came to say good luck with your new detox!

Looks like you and I we're not so different. 😄

23th February: Nothing special happened today. The practice was done as always, I'm slowly building up the forms of the motorcycle. For love life drawing beginner series did some more super stickmans but this time adding simple ribcages and pelvises. Tommorow I'm going to practice them some more and then move on to another lesson. I will finish the drawabox course (3 studies left) by 11.03.2022 I will finish the love life drawing beginner series by 25.02.2022 I will have 800 hours on my practice counter by 01.03.2023 I will have 3000 hours on my practice counter by 01.03.2027 Practice counter: 22 hours

The problem is that it is not only my hobby but I want to make it my career. This puts me in the weird position where I can choose the source of my stress. One cames from not doing enough and slow progress and the other from burnout which may happen in the future and not meeting my goals. For now I'm quite motivatied and I'm going to use that to my advantage for as long as I can. Imo I think the long term goals are pretty reasonable but the short time (drawabox and love life drawing) are way more miscalculated and thats why I prefer the "hours" goal. There is no pressure to finish something, just do your hours and you good. In my previous attempts to draw more I had result oriented goals and it crushed me (exactly like you described). This is my first time to have time oriented goal (counting hours) and I love it. An hour is an hour but assigment or drawing can take way more time than someone result oriented assume and this is soulcrashing. Add to this the times when you have to start over and you get that feeling of falling behind. With time oriented goal you don't have to worry how much it takes to finish something or if you have to start over a drawing and thats equal to less stress. Sorry for a rant, I'm very thankful for your support and concerns. It really matters a lot to me! 22th February: Finally I had good quality sleep. The day wasn't easy because I was still a bit tired because of previous nights but I still consider this day a win. Today I finished the 100 ribcages assignment and I have started the final perspective drawing for a motorcycle. I have big hopes for it because my previous drawing I did like 3 months ago came pretty good and I don't want to look I got worse with my skill but even if it goes wrong I'm going to go ahead and mark it as complete instead of starting over. This assignment is all about pushing through mistakes and making solid forms and I'm sure it will be at least good enough. I will finish the drawabox course (3 studies left) by 11.03.2022 I will finish the love life drawing beginner series by 25.02.2022 I will have 800 hours on my practice counter by 01.03.2023 I will have 3000 hours on my practice counter by 01.03.2027 Practice counter: 19 hours

Of course I couldn't have fallen asleep. This resulted in very short sleep. Got up 1 hour earlier than needed for work because this additional hour wouldn't make a difference in sleep quality and used this time to do my first hour of drawing. Then at the work I felt like I was drunk because of the lack of sleep. Somehow made it and after the work was the hardest part - shopping. I was so tired already and we had so much to buy today. When we came home I felt like a zombie but after a short break I decided to do my remaining 2 hours of drawing no matter what. Now I'm going to go to sleep hoping to sleep well this time, there is no reason today to not fall asleep. I will finish the drawabox course (3 studies left) by 11.03.2022 I will finish the love life drawing beginner series by 25.02.2022 I will have 800 hours on my practice counter by 01.03.2023 I will have 3000 hours on my practice counter by 01.03.2027 Practice counter: 16 hours

20th February: Another night with difficulties falling asleep. I wasn't asleep until 5 am I believe so naturally I got up late. Thankfully I had enough time to do the most of the things from my to-do list. Naturally my priority was to spend 3 hours on drawing. I finally finished the top view of the motorcycle and started making the front view study. In the last hour I focused on the ribcage assigment and made it to 70. Beside drawing I helped my fiancee clean the apartment and we also watched film together. Tommorow will be the first hard day because I have to get up earlier because it is finally time to go to work. Also want to squizze shopping with my fiancee and the drawing practice. I don't know how Im going to make it but im trying to be positive. Reminder of my goals: I will finish the drawabox course (3 studies left) by 11.03.2022 I will finish the love life drawing beginner series by 25.02.2022 I will have 800 hours on my practice counter by 01.03.2023 I will have 3000 hours on my practice counter by 01.03.2027 Practice counter: 13 hours