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Thanks for the book recommendation! Awesome! I like how he tells you to expect improvement after long periods of consistency, and to continue the positive habits even when you are seeing success. You can always reach more success if you just continue working on your daily habits. That's something that I never thought about and I completely agree. Many of the things I am already doing right now, and the book reinforces what I am doing Some new things I'm implementing: 1. act of kindness each day 2. meditate daily 3. journal for 2 minutes a day about one positive experience. I'm still reading the book. I will summarize and post the summary when I'm done. Day 26 Daily: Workout: 35 minutes Healthy Eating: 7.8/10 Hygiene: 6/10 Mindful/focus: 3.2/10 Yoga/sitting meditation: 1 minutes Journal: done Posture: 3/10 Sleep: N/A wake: N/A read/comment on maximum 3 other journals: 2/3 Act of kindness: done To Quit: Caffeine: 0 Gaming: 0 Internet Browsing: 2 minutes Mindless News Reading: 5 minutes Porn watching: 0

I like the Go-Tos and alternative environments! Good luck !

Hey I was reading about cases similar to this in the book Smarter Better Faster. Maybe your apathy is caused by traumatic brain injury or low atmospheric pressure? In the book, the author claims that thinking about what's important to you and making your own decision and choices towards what's important to you can slowly build back motivation. I'll have to go back and find the book. I'm not a doctor so I could be very far off. edit: I found the relevant section in the book This may be vessel damage in the striatum. The striatum serves as a kind of central dispatch for the brain, relaying commands from areas like the prefrontal cortex, where decisions are made, to an older part of our neurology, the basal ganglia, where movement and emotions emerge.

Thanks. Lately I've been reading the Power of Habit and The Slight Edge. The Slight Edge motivates you to develop positive habits in multiple areas of life without setting you up for unrealistic expectation. I definitely recommend it to game quitters. For the next few days I will focus on building my meditation habit, posture, and focus. I will also replace the craving to browse the internet or news with writing on a journal. Stay strong guys! Day 25 Daily: Workout: 15 minutes Healthy Eating: 7.5/10 Hygiene: 5/10 Mindful/focus: 3.3/10 Yoga/sitting meditation: 10 minutes Journal: done Posture: 2.6/10 Sleep: N/A wake: N/A read/comment on maximum 3 other journals: 3/3 To Quit: Caffeine: 0 Gaming: 0 Internet Browsing: 10 minutes Mindless News Reading: 15 minutes Porn watching: 0

Today is good. Nothing to write about so I'll write my gratefulness journal. I'm thankful for: -just bought ring online -high productivity today -healthy eating -I live in Canada and is financially okay. IMO the 90 days detox is less challenging when you are financially okay -24 days without games now! Day 24 Daily: Workout: 65 minutes Healthy Eating: 7.6/10 Hygiene: 7/10 Mindful/focus: 3.2/10 Yoga/sitting meditation: Journal: done Posture: 2.7/10 Sleep: 11pm wake: 8:45am read/comment on maximum 3 other journals: 4/3 To Quit: Caffeine: 0 Gaming: 0 Internet Browsing: 5 Mindless News Reading: 3 Porn watching: 0

Lol I didn't notice that your sentence sounds like a domestic violence case until I reread it. Congrats on the steady productivity.

Whatever works for you man! Personally I am aiming to detox for an indefinite period of time, but maybe in the future, I may do some very light gaming like playing wii dance dance revolution in a party or playing a game of rock paper scissors. Looking forward to new posts.

Is there an Android version of the app? I know there's one for the iOS - but a search found nothing. I might look for similar apps though. Thanks for the suggestion. Day 15: I skipped a journal entry yesterday by my intention, as I only aim to write down things that I thought were interesting – or things that I would look to as progress besides redundancy. Though I was doing quite a lot of studying and writing both yesterday and today – in fact I just finished my essay which is due next class. Just need to look it over now. A second assignment will arrive soon enough that I will have to do as well (although in both of these cases they don’t require THAT much writing anyways due to the time constraints of being in a summer course, so it also makes that a bit easier if still pretty intensive). In all honesty, it looks like for the next couple of days at least I may need to do a lot of focusing on school since the workload is now starting to get a bit more intense. I’ll have to put off or at least delay a few things in the meanwhile. (I hadn’t touched The Power of Habit since a few days ago – I would really like to finish that book.) Once things settle down a bit I will probably look to do other things. Nice! Keep up the effort!

Still disagree with the definition. But it's just a technicism. If it distracts me, it's equally bad than a game. Games themselves are not the problem. Our attitude towards them is. Our attitude towards life. And I have the same attitude of games with so many things. I'm so tired of myself. Fun fact. I haven't played LiS since I said I did. Oh, politics time! I was having a terrible day (week), sharing some thougths with you will cheer me up. They would end being nothing else than loan-sharks. Private enterprises are never an honest, straightforward affair. Actually private business should be allowed to exist only to provide non-essential goods and services at prohibitive prices so people will relate attaining them as achievement; and only because experience has proven (with a little help of capitalist meddling and warmongering) that you can't just ban luxury and consumerism. They are a disgusting but necessary evil. People need something to motivate them to thrive. It's not Heaven, land or titles anymore, and humans tend to be blissfully oblivious to self-growth, therefore a big shiny rock in a finger or a fancy overrated means of transport will have to do. Paternalist Capitalism, if you ask me. Now, about the link... James Badcock *giggles* 'scuse me. That story comes a long way back. Jerez is notoriously infamous for being a stronghold of corruption regardless of the party in power (unlike heavily one-sided corruption like conservatives fascists in Valencia or socialists in Andalusia). In this instance, socialists inherited and exploited the system of ousted (by widespread application of police handcuffs) opposition. This is probably unusual. Tradition dictates media on payroll races to dig up the rival's dirt. Despite renown of its wineries, the actual place lacks anything of note, so no one can quite explain the greek proportions of debt left behind. Again, no honest person can. Crooks think different. Concerning Cádiz, it was ruled almost as a personal demesne for the last 20 years by a populist, right-winged, blonde-dyed, middle-aged woman, stories like that were aplenty. They seem to be an european trend: there are at least two in Spain (there was a third most people only learned about when she was assasinated, an event which was absolutely shocking and exceptional, my dear firearm-handling, social-clashing anglo-american friends), Thatcher in the UK, Merkel in Germany... All equally unpleasant to look at and equally avoidant in their accountability. The right hates women but spawning those Eldritch aberrations is just low. Honorable mention to Rand of course. That being said, Hillary gives me the creeps and is just clinging to the "novelty-wagon" inaugurated by Obama (among other well-exploited cir-cum-stances, which has its own merit to be fair). There, I said it. Then, glorious revolution came thanks to "The Celebration of Democracy" (La fiesta de la democracia, a widespread ancient political slogan to praise the right to vote) and now we (my hometown, so proud...) are ruled by a populist, left-winged, loose-shirt-and-earrings-wearing, no-real-former-job-known middle-aged man. Isn't it grand, comrade? You would LOVE the town hall meetings, @Marchosias. They are public by law and it's the best recreation available of the ancient Roman Senate. Or the current Ukrainian Parliament, depending on the mood of the day. Lumpenproletariats storm the halls, profanity and mediocrity ensues, police intervenes and another day well spent. Allegedly, despite all concerns on their personal hygiene and the red scare (or purple in this case, again with the unfortunate implications), public debt has been steadily decreasing. Not so big an achievement, I mean, check us out on Google Maps or something, I'm pretty sure having the tallest bridge of Europe or a stadium with glass walls was kinda exaggerated. Money ended in unwanted pockets, that's for certain. I knew I was going to spend the afternoon doing something completely secondary to my very pressing matters but I couldn't expect it was this. At least my anger attack has receded (explanations later), so maybe I'll be able to get anything done today. Hope you're all well, I'll write again very soon. ^^ Personally I don't really care about the definition of LiS. The ultimate thing that most of us are trying to achieve is our purpose in life, whatever that is, and this forum is a means to get there. Good job on your efforts. Looking forward to updates

I loled. Maybe they are using AI to moderate posts? Good luck hope you do well in things and life!

Great that you are working things out. Hope your back get better.

Keep it up!

Day 23 Daily: Workout: Healthy Eating: 5.3/10 Hygiene: 8/10 Mindful/focus: 2.8/10 Yoga/sitting meditation: 6 minutes Journal: Posture: 2.7/10 Sleep: 10:30pm wake: 8:45am read/comment on maximum 3 other journals: 2/3 To Quit: Caffeine: 0 Gaming: 0 Internet Browsing: 0 Mindless News Reading: 0 Porn watching: 0

Day 22 (11:19am) I really spend way too much time on the internet yesterday. It's still better than in the past, when I would waste the entire weekend. I think I just need to make a habit of starting work or study as soon as I get to the computer, and just keep engaging myself with that activity or other productive activities to keep myself from browsing the internet. Browsing the internet is like, literally 1 click away. I also need to work on my mindful/focus and guided meditation more consistently. I need to be more hard on myself. I was browsing the internet yesterday on guys in relationships watching porn. I didn't know it could be so damaging to relationships! On hindsight I'm pretty glad that my gf doesn't seem to mind and I made the decision to quit watching porn myself along with gaming. Daily: Workout: Healthy Eating:6.4/10 Hygiene: 8/10 Mindful/focus: 3.3/10 Guided Meditation/Yoga: 10 minutes Journal: Posture: 2.7/10 Sleep: 10:00pm wake: 9am read/comment on maximum 3 other journals: 2/3 To Quit: Caffeine: 0 Gaming: 0 Internet Browsing: 0 Mindless News Reading: 0 Porn watching: 0

Thanks, I will remember this.

Thanks! This have been the longest time I've been off games since high school! I'm getting enormous value/dollar ratio from buying Respawn and I know many other people have benefited from this website and its programs. So here's my pledge for reaching my bigger goals: 90 days game free: buy myself 30 minutes coaching from Cam 180 days game free: buy someone else in this forum or website the respawn program or 30 minutes coaching with Cam touch the net of the basketball hoop (may take 6 - 12+ months of training): buy someone else in this forum or website the respawn program or 30 minutes coaching with Cam. Day 21 (From now on I am counting the days from when I started quitting games rather than from when I first posted in the forum) Daily: Workout: Healthy Eating:7.7/10 Hygiene: 7.8/10 Mindful: 3.3/10 Guided Meditation/Yoga: 10 minutes Journal: Posture: 3.2/10 Sleep: N/A wake: N/A read/comment on maximum 3 other journals: 3/3 To Quit: Caffeine: 0 Gaming: 0 Internet Browsing: 3hr 45 minutes Mindless News Reading: 10 minutes Porn watching: 0

Congrats on 80 days game free, keep it up! There's a book about dealing with difficult people that my friend was reading, or maybe some books or articles about difficult family members? I don't think I am qualified to give advice on that part lol.

Nice progress from relapse. I know what you mean about having peers that spends most of their time partying. I don't like going to drinking parties too much myself. By the way do you recommend the book Mastery by Robert Greene?

Yeah, I should ask my cousin. It's not a deciding factor lol but something that have been in my mind and a reminder that I'm still kinda lost when it comes to making and maintaining friends. Good point. What are the differences with being married in your experience? I was thinking maybe I can start playing some basketball with my friends or cousin, I really suck at it though lol.

Maybe I can ask my cousin? I don't see him often but lives not too far away.

I don't have many friends other than my girlfriend and the ones that I do have, I don't see too often. This is still progress for me because 2 years ago I did not have any friends and only been on 2 dates in my life. Bragging about my improvements aside, I'd feel kinda embarrassed if most of my friends turn down an invitation to be a groomsmen and I'd have to ask my girfriend's friends' boyfriends. Best man is another issue. I was looking at Cam's youtube videos on friends, and I plan to implement those simple tips to every interaction. Like Cam said, see every interaction as an opportunity for training.

I LOVE the transparency! Really interesting to read and is reference those of us who aspire to run our own companies.

I will feel a sense of achievement if I can finish it with minimal procrastination and good focus. I KNOW I got this! Thanks for the encouragement dullage! Good posture is very underrated. Edit: So I submitted a 2000 words answer to one of the 35 questions that I have to answer online to become a professional engineer, and I got the following error message: Answer needs to be a maximum 1200 characters. ಠ_ಠ Moonshot Goal: I want to be able to jump to the basketball hoop and hang on it. I know that there are maybe 2 or 3 people my height that can "kinda dunk" a basketball, but they started training since they are a young age. I am 28 and I just started consistently weight training for a few months. I will probably physically peak in 5 years and I just don't see myself dunking a ball by then without something crazy like steroids lol. Long Term Goal: I want to touch the rim in 5 years. I want to touch the net within 6 months. If I touch the net I will make a video of it so excited! Short Term Goal: zero internet browsing or other time wasting activities for the rest of the day. Day 19 Daily: Workout: Healthy Eating: 7.1/10 Hygiene: 7.5/10 Mindful: 3.3/10 Guided Meditation/Yoga: 10 minutes Journal: done Posture: 3.4/10 Sleep: 11pm wake: 9am read/comment on maximum 3 other journals: 3/3 To Quit: Caffeine: 0 Gaming: 0 Internet Browsing: 7 minutes Mindless News Reading: 0 Porn watching: 0

I could relate to gaming as a way to be in control. But at the same time, I felt so out of control because I couldn't control my obsession with games. Thanks for sharing, and I am interested in reading about how things go

Good job on identifying areas to improve on your life and actively work on them! Nice hobbies.