Cheers @Yan , I hoep you're doing well , I'm looking at your replies to other people's posts and I am very happy that you're helping people out and encouraging them.
THanks brother, you are a legend :)
@Pulse Thanks for your words, I agree with what you said :)
I hope you're well and everything is going fine, if not, that's ok, you just need to keep going and (using your own words) fight the good fight :)
Entry 3:
The last week was good, after work I sstarted to work on a 3rd wooden puzzle which took like 4 hours and I'm still barely 25% done with it, which is great, it helps to take my mind off of games.
tI studied for like an hour and a half for something new in IT for which I plan to get certified by september next year so I'm trying to prepare in advance.I also restarted reading books again, I just staretd reading a book called "Ancient Egypt - On Five Debben a Day" by Donald P. Ryan.
I finished the RESPAWN book and I took nodes on my notebook which I revisit whnever I start to feel bored or whenever I feel like I'm starting to have a craving.
Today I have to clean the entire house while my girlfriend is away which is great, I get to put on the headphones and start tidying up the place so she can have a surprise when she gets home and she'll see the apartment cleaned up
I work out every evening in the house, just home workout with two dumpbells , an abs wheel and elastic bands. I am currently searching for an abs bench but I want to find something second hand.
I put my old gaming PC up for sale, hopefully someone will want to buy it.
In the evening during the week, after work, I get pretty tired and I don't have the drive to study, but I pushed myself and sometimes it gets easier with the time, sometimes I feel like I can't concentrate and I have to read again the last chapter, that's fine, it's normal.
I try to engage in as many activities with my girlfriend as possible, these days it rained so we stayed in-doors and played chess, she got really good at chess, she keeps beating me :)))
We bought a new board game and we're waiting for it to be shipped as it comes from outside of EU.
So far so good, I haven't played but I still feel like playing from time to time.
I have to hold on to what I've achieved so far.
I might also try to quit smoking, I still have a few packs around the house, but I might try to see if I can succedd in quiting smoking, hopefully in two,three months from now I'll be less drawnd to smoking.
I smoke regular cigarettes , never did druges, I just smoked some pot a few years ago, I tried it twice, it didn't stick with me so I am lucky in that regard.
I am also happy that I was able to avoid gambling and I was never addicted to this.
I did play twice at a slot machine, I won once and lot the 2nd time, so I understood since then that that's a dangerous cycle so I stayed away.
Just because I managed to stay await from these bad habbits is helping me now to stay concentrated on my goals of not playing and improving myself both personally and proffessionally.
I don't write here on a daily basis because I preffer to hold myself accountable every-day, and then just add an entry here that covers a few more days or an entire week.
So far I'm pretty satisfied with my decisions after I started reading RESPAWN.
And I will everybody who get's to see this a wonderful day and week ahead of you. You got this, you can quit games and any bad habbits.
We can all become a better version of ourselves .
Stay strong brothers.
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Adrian ·
