PolarBear Posted October 3, 2020 Share Posted October 3, 2020 (edited) I play too much WoW for the sense of mastery and community, but being good requires lots of practice and farming which results in not enough practice and farming in real life. Hence I want to redirect my competitive energy from WoW to real life objectives. My objectives: - repair social life and catch up with real life friends and acquittances more often - get back to regular exercise and loose 40 pounds I gained in the last 1 year gaming binge - advance toward my goal of becoming a CTO of an insurance organization - continue reading the books related to the topic that were sitting on pause on my shelf for the last year - explore getting a master's degree - advance my business knowledge of how insurance operates - explore entrepreneurial ventures. Day 1 Dilemma: Do I send all of my stuff in WoW to a guild bank and delete my characters, or do I just uninstall the game right now? Sent everything to a friend, deleted my characters, uninstalled WoW, discord, twitch and steam, cancelled my subscription and hugged my cat 🙂 Hmm... What do I do now??? I think I will take a shower, get dressed and go for a walk on a boardwalk! It is nice outside and I haven't done that in ages! Edited October 3, 2020 by PolarBear 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giblets Posted October 3, 2020 Share Posted October 3, 2020 3 hours ago, PolarBear said: Dilemma: Do I send all of my stuff in WoW to a guild bank and delete my characters, or do I just uninstall the game right now? Sent everything to a friend, deleted my characters, uninstalled WoW, discord, twitch and steam, cancelled my subscription and hugged my cat 🙂 Hmm... What do I do now??? I think I will take a shower, get dressed and go for a walk on a boardwalk! It is nice outside and I haven't done that in ages! I remember reading about back in Molten Core days that someone from an elite guild didn't get a drop due to DKP rules, so went back to town, disenchanted all his gear, vendored everything he had, and gave the gold to a random low level char near the starting town. I really liked this idea, because it meant even in the future if he gave into the cravings or wanted to come back, there was an added barrier of having put in a large amount of effort to repeat content, which would put him off. It's the same reason in the Respawn modules that Cam recommends deleting your steam accounts, or alternatively giving the password to a family member so you can't access it. It's all about making things just that little bit harder initially so you don't relapse when the cravings are the strongest. I miss that overwhelming feeling of when you first give up of having so much time! Wondering what to do with all your newfound time! I enjoyed just sitting, just being, enjoy the moment. Then I started to recognise how much needed to be done around the house that I had been neglecting. Cleaning, repairs, improvements. Before you know if you'll wonder how you ever had time to game. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PolarBear Posted October 4, 2020 Author Share Posted October 4, 2020 Day 2: Didn't play video games 🙂 Woo!!! Did caught myself thinking about video games on numerous occasions though... I think this is normal though, need some time for my brain to switch away from games 🙂 Productive activities I did: - Went for a walk on the shore. Discovered that ocean smells quite nice 🙂 - Called all of my friends. Debating on whether I want to tell them about quitting video games or not... None of them know that I have this issue... They just noticed that I do a lot less social stuff in the last year... - Read a chapter of "Domain Driven Design" book. The chapter was rather boring because it made an argument for something I already learned from experience: "Software engineers cannot be separate from programmers. If they are separated by corporate structure, or whatever other reason, then programmers get confused by why stuff is designed the way it is designed, and software engineers become too disconnected from programming issues that arise in implementation." - Went to sleep early and woke up late! Holy cow! The head is not all foggy and blurry in the morning 🙂 Now that was some instant gratification lol Planning to take a shower and go raid a park today 🙂 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
royal panda Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 Glad you are doing well so far, keep it up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BooksandTrees Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 Welcome to the forums! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PolarBear Posted October 6, 2020 Author Share Posted October 6, 2020 Day 3: No gaming 🙂 Woooo!!! Productive activities I did: - Read a chapter of domain driven design. This one was good. It was contrasting layered architecture of Interface, Application, Domain, Infrastructure to Smart UI. A really nice systematization of things and when to use one over the other. I liked it! - Decided that my resting activity will be 1 (One) episode of anime (Not 2! No binging!). Picked "Attack on Titan" as anime of choice. So far 1 person eaten! - Was more productive than usual at work, I think not being sleep deprived was helpful haha. Speaking of sleep deprived... I slept for 12 hours.... 10 PM to 10 AM... Its bizarre... I chalk it up to catching up the last months of sleep time inadequacy... But that needs to get under control lol - Working on my calendar now, trying to make sure I don't fill it jam packed of reading with no social activities. Need a balance! Social activities are important! Still thinking about games quite a bit... Mostly in the sunken cost way.... SO MUCH STUFF WAS DELETED.... CAN IT BE RECOVERED??? HELL NO ^.^! Got a thank you from people I sent all my stuff to, they also said they already spent it all so I can't ask for a refund! I appreciate it haha 🙂 Need to get on meetup tomorrow and find something virtual (can't risk infecting my elderly grandparents), yet interesting... virtual board games would be cool... Among Us would probably be a bad idea, so will stay away from that 🙂 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PolarBear Posted October 7, 2020 Author Share Posted October 7, 2020 Day 4: No games 🙂 Woo! Productive activities: - registered for a meetup event tomorrow after work "Couch, Cocktail & Conversation"! I have no couch and no cocktail, so the conversations will have to make up for the other two. - was very productive at work. - watched second episode of attack on titan. 10,000+ people eaten... Holy cow that escalated fast... Still sleeping a lot (12 hours again...), I wonder if others experience something similar... I was planning to go for a run in the morning, but woke up 4 hours later than expected, right on time for work... Will try to set an alarm clock for tomorrow morning and see how that feels. In theory 8 hours of sleep should be more than plenty to feel rested, but we'll see. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giblets Posted October 7, 2020 Share Posted October 7, 2020 18 hours ago, PolarBear said: - registered for a meetup event tomorrow after work "Couch, Cocktail & Conversation"! I have no couch and no cocktail, so the conversations will have to make up for the other two. 🤣🤣🤣 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PolarBear Posted October 12, 2020 Author Share Posted October 12, 2020 Day 9: Its been a while since I posted, and there are good news and bad news... I did learn something, so I guess its a process. The good news: - No video games - Participated in a meetup "virtual werewolf" on Saturday. The other event on Wednesday got cancelled 😞 Virtual werewolf is a bit awkward without a webcam, had to use a mix of phone and PC. It was not nearly as social as I anticipated mostly because people wanted to make sure they don't talk over each other and because you can't direct your speech to someone by looking at them... Will try more activities and see how it goes... - Sleep normalized to 8 hours 🙂 The bad news: - Anime watching binge... I watched entire Attack on Titan. It was good, but I feel like I would enjoy it more if I stretched it over more time. - No physical activity. - I haven't picked up a book since Tuesday. - Wasted a lot of time mindlessly browsing youtube. Three things I learned: - I was aware from the start that binge watching anime could be an issue. What triggered watching more than 1 episode was an social event on Wednesday that got cancelled... And I watched a second episode and more episodes... and hello downward spiral... Need to be careful of events falling through. Clearly a risk factor for me. I'll attempt to have a backup plan, something like "if I get a free 3 hour window, here is what I'll do". On Saturday, I originally had an all day event as well, but that got cancelled last minute and resulted in a continuation of anime watching binge... Same trigger: change of plan -> slipping to old routines. - There was no plan for Thursday -> watching anime... Must spend more time planning my activities to have a plan for more than 1-2 days ahead. - I captured my reasons on why I didn't want to play some games in the last few days: - Why would I play WoW if I know I will just delete whatever I gain in it? - I don't want to play PuBG or CS because I will get destroyed by kids and I have zero chance to be as good as them because I am older, and because these games give me a headache after 4-5 hours and hence I can't practice enough to get good. - I don't want to play LoL or DotA because I am so out of date on heroes, items, meta etc... Too much trouble... And in a short term I will just get destroyed by kids... - I don't want to play Witcher because single player games bore me pretty quick... I never even finished it in the first place precisely because I got bored... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icandothis Posted October 12, 2020 Share Posted October 12, 2020 Welcome!!! Love your picture and username! Look forward to following your journey! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PolarBear Posted October 13, 2020 Author Share Posted October 13, 2020 Day 10: + No games 🙂 + Did some reading! +/- Had a below average productivity at work, but I think it was mostly a result of being ahead of schedule for something I deliver on Wednesday. Now this is good, since normally I am finishing up stuff last minute... - Overslept today, so missed all the things I wanted to do in the morning. - No physical activity (that was scheduled for the morning)... Let's try again tomorrow. Biggest adjustment -> get up when alarm clock rings! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
royal panda Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 I wish you luck on getting up when your alarm rings, I struggle with getting up early too, so unfortunately I don't have any advice, but let's work towards it together! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNewMe2.0 Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 Welcome to the forums. Good job deleting your account and stuff. Barriers to entry help a lot. You can respond to what people are typing to you by typing @(their username) then type your response. Doing this will alert us you have replied in our alerts section. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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