Hurray!!!!!!!
At the end of the day I'm in the same place as you are. It's either I'm going to succeed today or not.
Although I do have a history of some victories and I am grateful that I managed to do that.
Thanks for checking my journal out, and for the compliment.
When I stopped gaming for the first time I felt very much like you. It is like being reborn. You suddenly have freed out 90% of your time. It is super normal to feel a vacuum. Good new are, you can now choose who you want to become in the long term and go to work on achieving that vision, instead of using up your precious, currently irrestorable time(no time machines), on simply avoiding short term pain, without long term content.
We were born to work one way or the other, that's why we are so attracted to games... They fulfill our feeling of self fulfillment becvause we accomplish short term goals. You can use the same energy but to be productive and somehow contribute to society or do something you'll be proud of long term :)
I do not believe your "gaming addiction" can truly be "gone". It was fulfilling specific needs for you, and you will optimally replace it with something that will fulfill the same needs(At least so it was for me out of my experience). For example I used to play MMO's and I could stick with 15 hours of play for months at a time just to get up and up on certain levels esentially doing the same thing over and over again, whil others were jumping from game to game... Eventually I'm doing the same thing today, just with other goals like workout and other long term visions. I think establishing a weekly time could really help you get a hold of your values. I think it's a key habit, to establish a weekly/daily schedule and then try to follow through with it.
Consider reading Stephen Coveys - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
and Nir Eyal - Indistractable
Maybe you'll get some ideas.
I'm super proud of you for that huge step. It's not in any way to be underestimated! It took me more than a year to erase all my long year gaming passwords (Although I did find them in another place eventually I really thought I erased them) and I believe I can understand how hard and painful it is to do something like that.
Now have an awesome day, I've got to go. Spent a lot of time on this entry today already. Peace!
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Yan ·