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Hello everyone! My name is Robin and I am an adult male in my mid 20s pursuing an advanced career in healthcare. I am posting on this forum as a reminder to myself of my commitment to leaving gaming in the past. My gaming story began at as young as 6 years old, playing Mario at my cousin's house at a Thanksgiving family reunion. From there, my mother had gotten me my first game console and there it began. Over the years of my childhood, I had gotten very into different Nintendo games - like Mario Kart, Pokemon and Smash Bros - spending hours end on end playing them at any free moment I had the opportunity. I went to live tournaments, started my own high school gaming club, and the whole nine yards. And if I wasn't actively gaming, I would spend many hours consuming content on YouTube about gaming. In fact I spent many more hours doing that and fantasizing about games than actually playing them. I was fortunate to still achieve academic success; but when I wasn't at school or studying, games were all I could ever think about. Spending so many hours gaming and focusing on school, there was essentially no time left over for me to develop myself as a human being in other facets of my life. I had very poor social skills, a low self-esteem, and a very skewed sense of what mattered in life. When I went to college and grad school, I had left all my gaming consoles at home, knowing that they would take time from me achieving my goals. However, during the COVID lockdowns, I had a relapse into gaming. Being so isolated from others plus the stress of some hard challenges in my family, I felt hopeless and fell into a long episode of depression, where gaming was one of the few outlets I used to numb myself. Fortunately, I have conquered my depression and it no longer holds me down. However, I realize I have spend far too many hours thinking about and playing games, when they truly hold no significant value to the greater vision I have for myself and my goals. Spending time online or playing games has taken the free time I have for other activities: exercise, personal development, faith, family, and more. I have gotten rid of my gaming consoles and deleted my Steam account. I want to continue this trend and remove other distractions in my life like gaming that are distracting me from achieving my potential. To go further in life, I have to use the time that I have wisely. Here's to a better future!

Day 87. Last day of house work. It's the weekend. I'm absolutely exhausted. 3 more days until 90 days is done and I can give myself a big ol' pat on the back.

Hello Game Quitters Members.   I forgot to make a update at the end of March or the last day of March. All well.   Yeah I am more and more quiet offline and online where I am more peaceful similar to bird chirping on a sunny day mentally in my head. I am still focusing on myself and taking care of the things that I need to take care of by myself (which I already prefer anyway to do for a long period of time before 2020 to present day). I don't care in what is going on outside of my house. I only care what is going on with my own life and my own personal and professional growth for a long period of time. I am still not playing any video games still since 2021 due to fully focusing on the house remodel that been going on since before 2020. My reasons have expanded for a long period of time such as personal and professional reason to help my Mom to remodel this house and I also don't have to worry to move somewhere else in general for a limited time in general while abandoning the house myself while having a highly successful entrepreneur career.   Life is going to be great for me as I say multiple times already. Because I learned life is mostly a mental game for me, I don't know about anyone else though. I do understand athletes where they need to be mentally strong where they have to perform their best in general in the professional athlete world as rookies and as players past their rookie season in general.   I got this.

Ommmmmm It’s time to get game sober again. Those words are sad. I’m not at a horrible rock bottom. I have maybe gamed for 3 hours in the past month. But I feel the need to post here as it still feels too hard without any support to stay game sober   So I’m gonna delete sell and put away all the gaming stuff I can. At my job I’ll see about not gaming with clients and finding a replacement behavior. Yes I was getting paid to game.      It’s all to sacrifice to the altar of my dreams. I know what I want, gaming is in the way right now and posting here is my solution. It’s the only way to get my power level over 9000 as far as I know.   mhmmm    Alright let’s just give it our best shot!   Some words of encouragement:   Dont settle for less than your best! Never give up no matter how many low days or hard times there are. How many times you fall and fail. Get back up. Cut bleeding bruised and broken. You WILL get back up and cross the finish line. You will find the fire within you, tend to it and achieve greatness in this lifetime. If you’re still breathing there’s still a chance!!!!!   So get up and go after your dreams. With all you got. One day at a time, you’re be step at a time, progress not perfection

Entry 3.4 Day 78: No Useless Videos Day 910: Sticking to Food schedule Day 513: Eating Only between 06:30 and 19:00 (Last bite before 19:00) Day 61: Being in bed before 23:15 3 Things I did well no matter how small  -4 pomodoros at the very least once more =/ -Completing pomodoro output goal just barely -40-ish hour fast 1 Thing I could do better -Call more driving schools to compare prices Gaming (Death, Slavery, Regret, Disease) - 5 Yan (Life, Individuality, Freedom, Purpose, Self-Fulfillment) - 78