Hi, amigos.

[pacoacuna]

Hello, everybody.

My name is Paco, 31 years old and I'm from Mexico.

I'm looking forward to live my life to its fullest.

This is the second time I try to quit gaming.

The first time was about 4 years ago. At the time, I was a university dropout, I didn't have a job, was around 26 years old, and was totally addicted to Call of Duty. That game was my life.

I remember waking up every midnight asking myself "what am I doing with my life?".

I'm also a drug addict in recovery with 11 years clean now.

So, I realized that games were destroying my life exactly the same way drugs were doing it before.

Back in the day, I actually went to Narcotics Anonymous, and there they have this 90 days clean challenge, which I did back in 2008...

So, to quit gaming, I wrote on paper the reasons I believed I needed to quit gaming and set to read those reasons every day for 90 days. I also pasted a calendar on my wall to cross every day without gaming.

After those first 90 days crossed, I started another 90 days, and after that, I decided to quit gaming forever.

In that time, I grew my current business (I'm a marketing consultant), and set the base to keep growing it.

But after a year and a half (since my first day without gaming), I thought that maybe I could go back to play videogames moderately. So I went back to play.

But I was wrong.

A couple of years ago, after reading this article: https://medium.com/@petershallard/why-video-games-destroy-entrepreneurial-motivation-f52d0bfcd217 I realized that games, even though I was playing them in my spare time, were draining my best energy to keep improving my business and my life.

Although, in some way, I keep growing my business (it's an online business so I don't have to go out to grow it), I know I can do it a lot better. But the thing is, I don't enjoy my life. On my free time, instead of enjoying the time with my wife, and family, I play videogames, and after playing videogames, I feel depressed and worn out.

So, I've being trying to quit gaming again, but I always have this feeling of "being bored", and always say to myself that nothing fills the void like those damn FPS games.

But after watching Cam's material, I now realized it is completely normal.

Today, I'm 5 days already into my 90 day detox.

I'm gonna give away my ps4 to a friend, and I'm still doubting about giving away my steam account, but I know that's the right thing to do.

I want to really enjoy my life, enjoy my wife and family, and grow my business to its fullest potential.

I'm commited to it.

Thanks for reading my post.

I'll be checking other posts and try to be of help too!

See you around!

Paco