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Days without gaming: 11 Craving: 6/10 Iwas bored for a small part of the day (pretty early in the day). I wanted to play some games, didn't actually consider playing though, but I did have some thoughts it would be nice to game today. This is probably the worst cravings I had so far. It's probably due to not having planned that much anymore. Other days I would just keep playing the guitar and even though I played around 1-1.5 hours it wasn't enough to fill the dead parts in the day. Social: 8/10 Went out with some friends to eat. Sat a lot downstairs. I was pretty social. Goal progression (8 days till deadline) Guitar: 13 / 22 (+1.5) Didn't play that much today. I did watch some videos and stuff. Probably going to do some theory later. (Not counting the videos btw, only me playing) Programming: 1.7/5 (+0) I don't really care about it anymore. I'm probably quitting on this one. Exercise 3/10 (+1) Producing: 0/5 (+0) This is not really a priority, it's all about the guitar. I made this a goal to protect myself from gaming but I'm actually doing great without most of these goals. Daily Habits ☑ Reading: 7-day streak ☑ Meditation: 8-day streak (headspace told me this, I thought it was only 7 days) ☑ Waking up at 07:45 am: 4-day streak I feel like I need some more activities in the weekends... It's probably a good exerciser for tomorrow since I don't have anything planned?

Days without gaming: 10 Craving: 3/10 Lately I really feel like playing survival games ... but I don't and again it's not even close to me actually considering playing so no worries there. Twitch still gives me the itch though ... Especially when I see youtube videos with highlights or scandals. Sometimes I watch a small video and even though it's not really violating the rules I still feel a little guilty. Social: 5/10 Went to work, was social there. Said goodmorning and hi to people I didn't know on the street. Went out in my breaktime with male coworkers to get a sub sandwich. A friend asked me to go to the city. I said no .. maybe later but I already knew I wasn't going. Asking me this at 9.30 pm is not really my style. I like to know at least a couple hours in advance. Still had to play the guitar and do stuff. Goal progression (9 days till deadline) Guitar: 11.5 / 22 (+0.5) Didn't play that much today. I did watch some videos and stuff. Probably going to do some theory later. (Not counting the videos btw, only me playing) Programming: 1.7/5 (+0) I don't really care about it anymore. I'm probably quitting on this one. Exercise 2/10 (+0 ) Failing this goal as well. Will get a workout in tomorrow and the day after. I may get to 7-8 maybe but not 10. Got some motivation today though. Couldn't fit in one of my pants lol .. Producing: 0/5 (+0) This is not really a priority, it's all about the guitar. I made this a goal to protect myself from gaming but I'm actually doing great without most of these goals. Daily Habits ☑ Reading: 6-day streak ☑ Meditation: 6-day streak ☑ Waking up at 07:45 am: 3-day streak I cleaned my room today for more than an hour! I eliminated tons of clutter and stuff that was stressing me out. I'm pretty happy with that! I was actually really unproductive today now I think about it .. came home an hour early, watch cycling, then cleaned my room, ate and watched a good portion of guitar videos, played some guitar and that was it .. so it's not that much but it beats coming home and only game and watch twitch for the remainder of the day. Not every day has to be super productive at this stage.

Hey LilChenChen, nice to see you here! You're actually asking me a question I was thinking about some days ago.. well actually I always ask myself this question but I don't always know the answer. And for the moment I don't really know. I'll take life areas and describe ideal situations. Career My longterm goal would be a fullfilling job. Having certain responsabilities but not a ton of negative stress with them. Ideally it's a job where the result depends mostly on myself. I want to be appreciated for my work. And I want to work following my own vision. I'm a high achiever. If I work for something I want to achieve the best. My (probably) ideal situation would be being an entrepreneur who's pretty succesfull. Actually having freedom (a lot of passive income and automation) and not having to worry about future income too much. The service I would deliver would be top-notch, which alows me not to have to work all the time Social Having several good friends I can have fun with. Meeting new people regularly. Being someone who feels comfortable, not too self aware and being an easy talker. A pleasant person that's trustworthy Health/Physical Being fit and flexible and healthy. Being pretty strong, having good stamina. Spiritual I'm not religious. I just believe in living a life worth living. I'm more of a philosophical kind of person. I'm constantly thinking about the meaning of life and how I should spend my limited time (I'm deliberatly not saying my life 'here' because I don't believe in an afterlife, when it's over it's over). So spirtually I would be happy, at peace, calm in various situations, a good person, being the best person possible but also being me. Family I probably want a girlfriend and a kid (max 2). Have a good contact with family members. Basically my best friends would also be like family. I would be a reliable person who would be able to help in a variety of situations for these people. Financial Comfortable. I little bit like I'm at the moment (because I'm not living alone yet). Being able to buy fun stuff, but not be a crazy shopaholic kind of person. Having a lot of money would definitely help but is not a goal in itself. I'd rather have a lot of free time and a happy life than a lot of stress and tons of money and fame. Personal (fun & growth) Seeing a lot of places, having adventure. Spending fun times with the right people. Alw ays keep working on myself, learning about stuff and improving in things I like. I would want a learning-mindset even on the day I'd die. I never want to stop learning What does this mean for long term goals Well it's hard because all of these are really fuzzy. So I'll make a top 3 of goals Atm I'm learning the guitar because it's fun, growth and it might become a career/financial thing. It's also something to express myself with, music can be very spiritual to me and it could have some nice social effects as well. It's basically a lot of things I'm looking for right now. So a longterm goal here would be, being a guitar tutor, composing my own music, doing some gigs maybe but not being famous (that would make me a slave I guess). Being able to entertain people, bring a smile on their face and earning a good amount of money by doing it. My current job is good enough. I like it but I also know I will not keep doing this for the rest of my life. It's too stressfull and it depends on too many other people above and below me. Even if I do my job really good it could cause me tons of stress and difficulties.. that's not something I like. I'm also coaching a lot of people that have a 'good enough' mindset, that really really bothers me. I probably don't want to climb the ladder. I think I'd rather build my own wall. Being more social. Going out more, but not too much because I actually like being at home. I want to get to know more people, build more friendships, get some sort of relationship (could also be a LAT-relationship). Being a helping hand for my friends, a calm person, someone who can listen and really trustworthy.

Days without gaming: 9 Craving: 6/10 I was a bit bored today so I really wanted to game at different points at the day. Still didn't actually considered gaming though, twitch was once again harder. Social: 5/10 No real social contact but me and a friend will do something next friday, so since I planned that today it counts as being social enough to get the 5 Goal progression (11 days till deadline) Guitar: 11 / 22 (+2.5) (was probably more around 3-4 hours) Programming: 1.7/5 (+0.2) I really didn't enjoy it. I think that I would rather learn this at a school or just not learn it at all. Exercise 2/10 (+0 ) Producing: 0/10 (+0) Daily Habits ☑ Reading: 5-day streak ☑ Meditation: 5-day streak ☑ Waking up at 07:45 am: 2-day streak Didn't up the streak for waking up. I didn't get sleep untill around 5 am .. I can't stand the heat. I still woke up around 8:45 which is still really early. So I'm not breaking the chain but I'm also not adding a day to the streak. Truthfull thursday I have a lot of 'embarrasing' things to admit. Let's start with a very recent one. I'm renovating a house and I was actually thinking about spending a bit less money on my house and spending it on a good gaming pc for around 2K ... Also on 2 occasions I decided not to take a vacation and I bought a mechinical keyboard, gaming mouse and 144hz monitor instead. Priorities???

Thanks Cam! Days without gaming: 8 Craving: 4/10 It was easy not to game but I missed it on several occassions today. I really really miss Twitch> Why watching Twitch is not ok: - It's something easy to watch when I don't knw what to do - I watch it while eating, in th morning, right before bed,... I just watch it too much - It makes me week, my willpower completely dissapears,, I can't control myself - It messed up my sleep schedule Social: 6/10 Stopped working early, went into the city a bit for a walk. Didn't talk to people but I enjoyed it. It only lasted 30 minutes but it was a nice change. Goal progression (11 days till deadline) Guitar: 8,5 / 22 (+1.5) Programming: 1.5/5 (+0) Exercise 2/10 (+1 hot outside, still got a workout in!) Producing: 0/10 (+0) Daily Habits ☑ Reading: 4-day streak ☑ Meditation: 4-day streak ☑ Waking up at 07:45 am: 2-day streak

Days without gaming: 7 Craving: 1/10 (almost gamed out of habit, didn't hurt me when I realised I couldn't Social: 7/10 Was social at the hairdressers Goal progression (12 days till deadline) Guitar: 7 / 22 (+1.5) Programming: 1.5/5 (+0) Exercise 1/10 (+0 hot outside + headache) Producing: 0/10 (+0) Daily Habits ☑ Reading (will do this before bedtime) ☑ Meditation (will do this later) ☑ Waking up at 07:45 am It was a good day! Took half a day off work to get some stuff done. Gonna relax this evening, probably watch a music documentary and I'll probably go to bed early.

Days without gaming: 6 Craving: 0/10 (yesterday evening was difficult, didn't even think about games today untill now .. since I kinda have to filling this in) Social: 5/10 Was social at work, no real opportunities no real efforts Goal progression (15 days till deadline) Guitar: 5.5 / 22 (+1.5) Programming: 1.5/5 (+0) Exercise 1/10 (+0 procrastined on it, knew I was doing it, didn't really care about tackling it anyway. It was a deliberate choice I guess) Producing: 0/10 (didn't start this yet, but played a lot of guitar so that's fine as well since guitar is my main goal) Daily Habits ☑ Reading (will do this before bedtime) ☑ Meditation (will do this later) ☑ Waking up at 07:45 am Not that much time after work. Helped my mother with some papers she had to fill in so .. after that started to play the guitar and it's 8pm now. Don't feel like doing much more today. I'll probably do a longer reading session I feel like I could use a resting activity right now or maybe watch a guitar documentary. Grateful monday 1. The weather right now <3 2. It was really calm at work, many people are having their yearly vacation .. I love it!!! 3. Didn't get a lot of sleep, but I still felt pretty fine! 4. My new found motivation for guitar !!!!!!!!!! 5. Realising untill now I didn't have any problems leaving games aside. The internet is harder though 6. I'm taking a lot of walks in my break times, they feel amazing 7. ^I also feel really confident, smiling to people just feeling happy 8. Getting good calluses on my fingers which I need for guitar 9. Got a lot of work done without a lot of effort 10. I just felt pretty happy today, what's better than that .. what could one be more grateful for?

Days without gaming: 5 Craving: 2/10 (beginning of the day around 6, then it dropped to 0 quickly because I was doing fun stuff) Social: 5/10 The day started as a lonely day (which is absolutely fine for me, I don't really care too much). Then a friend wanted to play some guitar together so we did.. and when I came home my grandparents were visiting so I call it a 5/10 .. for a sunday it would be an 8 or something since I normally don't do anything on sundays. Goal progression (15 days till deadline) Guitar: 4 / 22 (+2.5) Programming: 1.5/5 (+0.5) Exercise 1/10 (+0 procrastined on it, knew I was doing it, didn't really care about tackling it anyway. It was a deliberate choice I guess) Producing: 0/10 (didn't start this yet, but played a lot of guitar so that's fine as well since guitar is my main goal) Daily Habits ☑ Reading (will do this before bedtime) ☑ Meditation (will do this later, already ticking it off because I know I will do it.. the plan is doing it in the morning, but at the moment I'm too tired, I would fall asleep) ✘ Waking up at 07:45 am --> 8am (getting there! Tomorrow I'll have to work so I will get it for sure) Hope I won't get blisters on my finger tips from all the guitar playing. Practiced bends and bended vibrato's .. made really good progress on getting them accurate and fluent! One thing I didn't like about the day is that I may have made a wrong choice... I wanted to see the legendary buddy guy live today. But my friend cancelled friday.. I could have gone alone but -because of the high price of the festival he was playing at and because I would have to go alone and leave before the last band finished (because of work) I decided not to go. It's not really a mistake because it's a really rational choice.. on the other hand Buddy Guy is almost 80 years old .. there's a good chance I'll never see him (a)live now .. so I have some mixed feelings about that I guess. If you compare music entree's this one is definitely high, especially if you only want to see just 1 of the artists so.. I won't blame myself but still have mixed feelings.

New plan for the journal After reading Remigjus blog I figured a nice layout would be nice. I think my big walls of text are pretty tiring to read ! This is why I made some sort of form I can fill in each day. Also I will implement some thematic days: - Grateful monday .. since mondays are often the worst, why not think about what we are gratefull for on monday? Every monday I will list 10 things I'm grateful for! - Truthful thursday .. what are some weird/embarrassing/nerdy/... stuff I did due to gaming or confess sins I made that week, be brutally honest with myself - Social saturday .. Report on something social I did this week or this saturday. Could be in the form of challenges. ---------------- Days without gaming: 4 Craving: 4/10 Social: 5/10 Goal progression (15 days till deadline) Guitar: 1.5 / 22 (+1.5) Programming: 1/5 (+0.5) Exercise 1/10 (+1 , still counting the digging) Producing: 0/10 Daily Habits ☑ Reading ☑ Meditation ✘ Waking up at 07:45 am --> 9am Social saturday Since I was outside for most of the day I talked a bit to my neighbours and someone a bit further on the street. Also went to the guitar shop. Today we had a cleaning lady coming over. I talked to her a bit as well. Didn't do anything outside my comfort zone though, but being outside definitely makes me more social! Which is nice and a small step in the right direction. -------------- Books I want to read (will also be posted in the opening post, open for recommendations) - The 48 laws of power - Robert Greene (ongoing) - Mastery - Robert Greene - The Art of War - Sun Tz - ... ?

Just read your entire journal, congrats on the 1 month! I have a small question, you're talking about your day schedule, do you mind sharing what it is? Does it contain a lot of habits? Trying to implement too many habits at once is very hard. Especially if you want to be strict on all of them from day 1. Anyways, you're doing great! I didn't know if you noticed but your productivity is pretty good even though you felt completely stuck not too long ago! You should be proud of this! You will get small setbacks, but the trend is definitely positive.

Rest activities: Meditation / Walking and cycling / Guitar playing /Reading/... That already a lot for me About Toastmasters. I 'm considering it, but it's more something for the future. It's not really what I want to learn right now. Also at work I'm a supervisor, so I already get a lot of leadership practice I do want to learn public speaking one day, but not yet (I'm also pretty good at it already) About today I didn't follow my schedule at all .. because I had a big chore to do. I had to dig a large hole at my new house. It took me 3 hours of digging before I was ready! When I came home I wanted to play guitar ... oh crap! I forgot! Yesterday one of my strings broke. Something confronting happened at that point. I didn't have strings and I wanted to polish my guitar. So I texted a friend of mine who gives me the materials .. but he wasn't really home. At that point it struck me ... Normally people would go to the guitar shop, but I always search/find a way not to go outside. But not today! I got dressed and went to the guitar shop. Even though I never wanted to go alone or always tried to avoid it, it was pretty fun and I actually liked doing it. Then I came home, fixed my guitar and then played it... and now it's 6pm and I'm sooooo tired. Still left to do today: (updated 19:07 & 19:33 & 22:44) - Meditation 1/1 --> Check - Guitar 1.5/1.5 --> Check - A bit of programming (I started Pyhton yesterday, I have no idea what I'm doing, but the thing/codeacademy says I'm doing it correctly Soooo I guess it will get more clear the more I do it --> Check - Oh, digging a hole for 3 hours counts as exercising btw!!! 1/1 - Read book --> check

I didn't mention 3 tasks because I had plans for them. I already wanted to do something with goals in this journal and it will probably be things I will write about on a daily or at least weekly basis. So I wanted to seperate it from the rest. Large Goals (goals are dreams with a deadline) - Be better at the guitar, being good enough to teach people or play on a stage - Family and social network, this is a long term goal though. Not really a priority - Start a side-business and grow it untill I may quit my current job (if I would want to quit it) - Produce my own album and make all the music by myself - Learn programming - Travel and be more adventurous - Make my house nice - Develop a new style for myself - Being more happy/calm/relaxed/chilled out - Being strong and athletic once again Priorities and specific goals - Guitar - Being more chilled out - Strong and athletic (being able to do a pullup with total weight of 100kg.. my weight is 70-75kg , 100kg Bench Press , 150 kg squat , 200 kg deadlift, 3000m coopertest) - explore producing and programming Monthly goal, Actions and tracking Guitar - Being able to play the solo's of stairway to heaven, comfortably numb and Hotel California completely and fluently. I know comfortably numb and hotel california only for a part and stairway to heaven is played with too many mistakes. Being able to finish these 3 songs would be a crazy achievment this month (maybe impossible but I can try) - Get a lot of practice hours in , at least 22 hours extra this month --> track with Toggle and post here - Learn more guitar concepts and theory Being more chilled out - Meditate daily --> track here - Be less stressed and be calm in as many situations as possible Strong and athletic - Start working out again and do at least 10 training sessions this month (4/week) Explore producing and programming - 5 hours Producing this month - 5 hours programming this month Idea's for next month - Plan an adventurous trip. I want to travel this year and I will start preperations next month. - Plan a lot of events maybe set a goal for this as well in the future List: Guitar 0/22 Meditate 0 Exercise 0/10 Produciing 0/5 Programming 0/5

I finished the e-book today. Still have to do a lot of action steps though. So lets get to it. Status check, how am I feeling I didn't feel a lot yet. I don't really miss gaming. I also don't miss mindless browsing for the moment (as I expected). Nonetheless, sometimes I just browse and suddenly Cold Turkey blocks me. The habit is still there, I would still do it, I feel surprised in a sense but I don't feel bad about it. I immediatly think about what I was doing and continue it or choose another activity. What I do feel sometimes is a tiny bit of anxiety when I think about Twitch. I liked everything about Twitch .. the streamers, how personal it felt, the emotes, the funny chat spams, the nice people in chat, the toxic people that get smashed by the streamer, the donations and the feeling everything could happen at any moment. There's a lot more I miss. Writing this I don't really feel anything, but sometimes I think about Twitch or what I was anticipating on Twitch and then I feel weird and a bit sad even. This is easily counter by thinking how many 'friends' I had on Twitch .. and even though several people knew my screenname I didn't really have friends. Maybe a couple of them may wonder where I am, but that's about it. I sometimes feel a bit bad for a smaller streamer where I was one of the more active people in the channel. On the other hand, it's not like the channel will fail or succeed because of my presence. When I feel any emotions regarding to gaming it hits me in the brain like a sudden clarity and it's immediatly followed by a weird/ emotional feeling. It's very easy to control though. It's not a deep sadness or anything, it's just a weird feeling of sadness that suddenly pops up and goes away just as fast. Write down 10 things I'm grateful for 1. My job: I made promotion quickly after starting and I have pretty nice coworkers. 2. My new house: I'm craving to go live in it. I'm really tired of sitting at my parents house, it creates a ton of stress 3. The helpers of my new house: Being my parents and friends of my parents. These people know a lot about renovating and help me a ton! 4. My parents: Even though they annoy me like crazy and I really can't live for long at this house anymore. I'm grateful for them taking care of me. Looking forward to moving and have a more healthy relationship with them 5. My reflections and decision making: I'm really good at making evaluations of my life and changing it now and then. Making the deliberate choice to game and then making the deliberate choice to slow down on surfing and gaming. I feel that when I'm old I can never blame myself for being 100% on autopilot. 6. This community: I really like active forums and especially the ones with likeminded people. It's pretty nice to read your guys stories. Also, everyone here seems really normal, some guys are real hardcore gamers and look like it, other look like fathers with a family but have the same problem. I think that's pretty interesting and makes this community really awesome 7. My guitar progress this year (will be continued later on) 8. Me being good at 'life'-stuff. Even though I enjoy being locked up in my room behind my pc I'm still pretty good at life stuff. I did great at school, I had it pretty easy. I found a job and did great at it. People often like me pretty fast and I gain trust very very fast. The 'obligations' in life just come naturally to me, so that's nice. 9. The feeling of fresh air .. especially after being stuck in a room that hasn't been ventilated properly 10. The feeling of the sun on the skin ... ohhhh boy just feels so good. 11. Being born in a safe country and having 'fair' opportunities or even better. 12. Taste of music .. I like my own taste of music and the diversity of music that I like. I'm openminded when it comes to music. 13. Friends. I don't have many of them and I don't want many of them either. But my friends are people that I sometimes won't see in months and when I see them again we just take off where we left. 14. Being able to so easily fill in this exercise.. really I can keep going. I did gratefulness exercises for months :-) But I'll stop here Meditate for 10 minutes It's in my schedule. When I finish all my action steps I'll start following it and I'll do it on a daily basis. I don't need to be convinced, I used toi meditate a lot and it works. Triggers Reading an article on facebook, a friend telling me about news, etc .. makes me want to browse mindlessly Waking up: ¨Just realised today that I had a habit of turning on my smartphone and browse Facebook and 9gag for an hour when waking up. I deleted those apps days ago along with my games. Thinking about Twitch: seeing battlefield 1, thinking about the smaller streamer, thinking about my favorite streamer, thinking about an insanely funny pokemon Go stream,... Seeing a Pikachu on the street ... no I'm not a Pokemon Go player .. I swear I saw a real Pikachu! Or a guy in a pikachu costume at least, probably the latter. Having tons of time and not wanting to do anything active. Talking with certain friends about games Pick 1 habit to do each morning Already did this, it will be meditating Three characteristics/behaviors I want to change - Be more social: Having it easier to talk with strangers and break the ice (once that happened I'm ok) - Having tons of idea's what to do outside my house and being able to spontaniously act upon it .. eg. I'm bored, let's go to the bar and see if x and y are there. So basically having a network that I can acces at a certain place when I don't really have plans. - Be more positive and less stressed out. This already improved tons!

Weekend activities This was hard! I was trying to avoid the social activities at first because I don't really want to do them. But in a way do want to do them I guess.. I want to be able to enjoy them even though I don't at this point. So this is the schedule but it doesn't have to be this strict. It's just to show myself I can easily fill time without being on the pc as much. On most weekends I would be 10+ hours/day on the pc. Now it's more around 2-5 hours / day and all that time is for usefull stuff. The important rules: - Do at least 1 social activity each weekend: go to old gym, go to the coffee bar, do something with friends, go to bar/movies/out. Even though I planned several of them it's important to do at least 1 of them each weekend. It dsoesn't have to be all of the planned things. - When I'm bored and I don't know what to do I will do an activity far away from the pc - Every planned thing maybe replaced with a social activity - Every PC activity may be replaced by a non-PC activity - I didn't really plan any chores .. so chores can replace anything but it may not hinder my goal to do something social in the weekends (unless the chore is social, like helping a friend) - Nice weather = outside activities

Hey @usernameforworldpeace! that would be a great idea! Sometimes I like to keep an eye out to help people on my way. Feels really fullfilling ! I actually did something similar today .. I'm not really an introvert well in a way I am.. I don't make friends easily but when the ice is broken it's easy for me to talk to people. I'm not really awkward or anything. I just don't mind being alone a lot. Let's share my 'interesting' day ... My morning was good, then it was time to go to work and suddenly the Doomswitch turned on ... The clock in my house wasn't accurate and I missed my train really by just a minute. I kept really calm and waited for the next one .. but that train had a 20 minute delay. Soooo I figured this was a good time to go to the coffee shop nearby that I wanted to visit ... it was closed due to yearly vacation .. Hmm .. ok so I went back to the train and when I arrived I caught the message that the train was cancelled completely. I went to work with my car. On the way to work (still had a lot of time) I stopped in a shop. I ordered something but I didn't hear anything from it for weeks .. so seems like they actually forgot to order it ... while I was walking back to my car I got a text .. they train departed after all and because of this (well actually because of a weird rule where I work) I was now too late for work!!! So I hurried to work .. but because I hurried so much I actually forgot my laptop in my car!!! So I took a reserve laptop ... IT DIDN'T WORK !!! So I took a second one .. It didn't work properly but it did the trick for my meeting.. After the meeting I went back to my car to get my own laptop because that other thing didn't work properly ... the bad luck I had! After that everything went better. The good parts: I tried to go to the coffee shop, I went to the shop where I ordered. Socially really fluent. I didn't really get angry even though I had a lot of bad luck. I remained pretty calm. So yea .. I did great in a way

Sarma do you eat h ealthy? This sounds a bit like depression to me and often it's influenced by lack of exercise but also by vitamin deficiency. Possibly you're lacking in B-12 or D-3. When I feel depressed for a couple of weeks I take some vitamins and in a couple of days it's gone. It may be a bit of placebo effect, but stuff like 'winter depression' is real .. if you're sitting a lot inside it may be D-3 deficiency. Many people lack vitamin D3 without even knowing it btw. Anyway Cam made some great suggestions: exercise, meditate and a gratefullness journal also really help a lot!

Typical weekday It depends Week 1: Get out of bed way to late, wash my face quickly, grab some food, rush to work -- work -- come home, feel tired, sometimes eat something and turn on the pc -- small intermissions here and there for eating (mostly preparing it and eating it in front of the pc), take a quick shower, playing the guitar for 15-30min and stuff like that -- then PC again till it's bedtime Week 2: Get out of bed late, but only have to work at noon so... -- sometimes eat -- PC, brainless internet, twitch, youtube, rarely a game -- Work -- come home tired, turn on twitch or youtube or facebook and start gaming while multitasking -- then I would play some guitar again -- eat in front of pc and go to bed. Weekend: Get out of bed -- PC -- eat and maybe do a small task -- PC -- play a bit of guitar -- PC -- eat -- PC -- decline or cancell a chance to go out -- PC -- Sleep Free time During the week I've got around 6-7 hours of free time In the weekends it's probably 12+ hours on most days Planning for weekdays Will do weekend after work. Will have to contain a lot social stuff. Maybe I don't have enough social things during the weekdays, what do you guys think?

I read this entire thread yesterday before bed. Wanted to read some journals to motivate me. Dude you are so funny. I literally laughed out loud a couple times! On the other side it was really inspiring as well. You went for the challenges 100% and many of the things were recognizable.. like awkward silences and stuff haha.

My go-to's Mentally engaged: Guitar theory or new concepts for guitar, new licks // Backup: Coding Tired: When really tired something really passive like documentaries, when not so tired but more in a chill-mood books or jamming on the guitar (stuff I already know) To make more friends: search for events and concerts. Go to a coffee shop. Go to a city and walk around a bit, there's always an opportunity to help someone in need in those places. Hop on my bicyle and just make a ride through my town. Big chance I'll run into one of my friends. When I feel bored: Reading, DIY home projects (get new idea's), go to the movies Stressed: Meditation, Series, Drawing Alternative environments There's a coffee shop in my town. Never been there but it looks nice so I'll definitely see myself chill in there There are 3 small forests nearby, I like nature. Sitting at the canal near by home Go to starbucks in nearby town Found a blues/rock cafe nearby so I'll check that out as well Chill in my empty house that I'm still renovating I already started to set up new routines but it isn't finished yet so I'll do that next thing in the morning. Gonna play some guitar now.

Hey @hycniejsy , thanks for the suggestion. Dancing class isn't really for me for several reason. The most important one being that I don't really like the places where people dance. I more like a 'rock-dude' overall I don't like dancing too much. I really dislike clubs and stuff like that. I'm more the dude that chills at bars, goes to festivals and goes crazy in a moshpit. Stuff like that. Overall I don't like crowded area's but when the atmosphere and music is good it doesn't really bother me (again like festivals). Also I'm definitely not the greatest dancer but I'm ok. I have a good sense of rythm and stuff so... but yea overal don't like to dance. I really think that being able to dance is cool, but it's not really something I aspire. Nonetheless keep the suggestions coming! I like getting them and thinking about them

Day 2 I feel really motivated. Don't really feel anything negative yet. So far this is feeling fairly easy. I woke up and I started reading, almost finished the e-book. I decided it's probably a good idea to journal my action steps as well. May get some good feedback here if I make beginner mistakes. Today I'll write about the action steps where I have to come up with new activities. Thinking about it, the biggest problem will be the social activity. I'm pretty good at being alone to be honest. Even in games I didn't really pay that much attention to the social aspect, I was always more of a solo player. I must say though, Twitch was definitely a social outlet for me. This was surprising I never realised this. So I definitely have to find something to replace that. Mentally engaging activities Practicing guitar, I'm already doing this each day but I could definitely put more effort into it.Making music with ableton. I joined a Coursera course on this but never opened it.Programming: Always been interested in this (codeacademy)Working out, I actually bought a home gym so I didn't have to go to my regular gym. I hate losing time by driving.Side business. I was starting a blog and side business before. I bought a high end program called zero to launch from Ramit Sethi. Maybe an interesting thing to start again.Resting Read books (especially self-development books and biographies)Drawing, I once started this and I actually think I may be pretty talented. Maybe it's time to find out?Watch documentaries/go to movies/ watch a series (this last one isn't a problem I'm not a netflix-junkie so it's fine)Meditation! I had over a 50 day streak and then I quit ... #FeelsBadManDIY home project. I bought a house this year and I'm still working on it so maybe make this a pleasant activity instead of an annoying choreSocial .. oh boy.. still need to really specify this but have some general ideas Go to as much concerts/festivals/cultural events... as possible. And actively search for them!Do relaxing activities outside like reading in a coffee shop, going to the movies with a friend, etc.Find a class to take .. I still don't know which one but overal I like learning new stuffI used to do karate, a friend of mine was planning to start a club. Will ask him about it.Maybe beer brewing or something that allows me to join a class AND invite friends over.May also try to get some sort of music network so I can play with friends (don't want to start a band though, been there.. done that)Find a bar that play good music so I can hang out there and talk with people about cool music.Social stuff that comes from the side-business. Maybe I'll start freelancing before doing a purely online business. Well have to get ready for work now, already pretty late now... Will continue my other action steps this evening (looking forward to filling in my google calender, I've always been a planning freak). That's it for now. Catch you guys later!

Thanks for the comment Cam. I actually decided I will go 100% for the detox as well. I may or may not be a gaming addict, the one way to find out is just not to game anymore. If it goes easy that's confirmation right there. If it's hard it's a good thing I'm trying to stop. Either way it's a win. I just deleted 50GB of games from my PC. Let's do this.

Thanks all! Kortheo congrats man! 300 days .. that's amazing! Congratulations man! hycniejsy I feel you man! And I agree 100% .. I don't know if I want to stop gaming, but on the other hand I also don't know if I want to keep gaming. So I'll do me detox like Cam suggested in one of his articles. I was reading the e-book and the action step was deleting my games ... I thought about it and decided to do it tomorrow. Then I was thinking about why I wouldn't do it today... there was absolutely no reason to not do it today. I had nothing else to do .. no tv, no twitch, no games, no youtube and I already finished practicing my guitar for the day... so I just deleted all of my games, steam, origin, battle.net, WOW, Runescape launchers , etc ... 50 GB of games are gone now. I'm serious about this stuff even though I'm not sure if this is what I want, there's no harm in trying it. I kinda feel good about it .. my last step is deleting the apps on my smartphone and Ipad. I will also unsubscribe from my favorite streamer (the psychologic effects that Cam described really hindered me from doing this for a long time). Edit: unsubscribed from twitch, deleted my twitter completely (since that was my way to follow twitch streamers), next step: setup cold turkey once again

Hmm I just realised something already. It's important enough to write down here as well... I don't watch television anymore and I also don't want to do that. I don't want to browse the internet brainless but that would mean no youtube, no twitch, no reddit (or at least not a lot), no 9gag, ... The impact is a lot bigger than I initially thought. Maybe I should think about what I am allowing or which hours I am allowing what .. but I probably should go cold turkey which I will do for now. So tonight (I'm EU so it already past 9pm) I will just read the book and practice my guitar. Untill I get bored of it and then I'll go to bed 'early'. I guess I feel a bit confused not but I also like it a bit, it actually opens a lot of new perspectives. So now I'm even more curious to read in the e-book. Catch you guys tomorrow!

Hi, I'm in my late twenties and I decided to quit gaming yesterday night. I actually played games yesterday and I was convincing people why gaming wasn't bad last week. I still believe gaming isn't really my problem. Me making it a priority over more important tasks is. I actually believe gaming can still be very beneficial to people who control it and it can learn us skills. My biggest problem is that gaming and especially brainless internet browsing is an easy escape from the things I should do. There's more detail in my introduction thread. Anyway what I wanted to share today I that I'm pretty curious about how it is going to go. I don't feel a lot of anxiety or anything. I have to admit though. When I turned on the PC and I realised I should actually delete my games since I'm not gonna use them anymore made me feel weird. Especially because I bought this course more out of curiosity than out of a will to stop gaming. On the other side, I'm doing the action steps, I paid money for an e-book and now I'm writing on a forum ... part of me believes gaming must be a problem. I can however conclude this: Gaming is a trigger to turn on my PC and do mindless internet browswing (which is the real problem). By handeling gaming I will also handle my internet browing. ------------------------------------------------------------- Books I want to read (will also be posted in the opening post, open for recommendations) - The 48 laws of power - Robert Greene (ongoing) - Mastery - Robert Greene - The Art of War - Sun Tz