Poker Vs Life

Poker is similar to life in many ways, and dissimilar in alot of ways. One of the things that holds true for both poker and life , is that there are endless ways to improve your life/poker game. But in both cases, most people refrain from doing anything about it.

I'll use my self as an example. I'm 28 years old. I could have gotten a higher education, but didnt. I could have worked up money and invested them, but I didnt. I could have tried to get me a nice girl (and keep her) but didnt. Not that I didnt want to, but somewhere in the endless choiches I either did not want it enough or got discouraged and ended up settling with what I had.

Poker works the exact same way.
There are 1 millions things that could improve your game, and there are 3 million things out there to help you.
Would it not be easier if it was 1 thing wrong with your game, and 1 thing to do about it, right? You would fix that shit instantly, but freedom is confusing.

So, what am I trying to say?
I claim that you can write 10 things that is wrong/can get better in your pokergame, in 5 minutes. And I claim that you can find 10 possible ways to aquire the knowledge to fix those.

But humans are lazy, are we not?
So write down 1 thing that is wrong with your game. AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. Then, write down 1 thing that is wrong with your life, and do something about it.

Thats the best advice I can give. (for now )

This is an awesome post, i agree 100%. People are lazy and really its not that hard to figure out the things we need to do to improve in any area of life we want improvement, be it poker, relationships, businesses, health etc.
Great advice.

Nice post...

My biggest leak is to gamble with my pokerbankroll, nowadays all pokersites have casino websites. But i'm really determined to stop with that. When you are grinding and then just give it away in a casino....

So i'm not going to gamble anymore! ( OK...a part from poker =D)

Thanks Jim. Yes, we are.

Nice Hans, it is a giant leak in many a persons roll, to go gamboling at the Casino.
You can try to say no, it's hard, but try.

Yeah wasting your bankroll on things other than poker really sucks. When I first started I had a good win but then went to the blackjack tables and lost it all. Poker isn't gambling

true it aint, it's way more complex.

It has elements of gambling, of course, and if you master this element, which is like balancing with your tounge on a razor sharpe blade, you can truly be a great player.
You have to be in that shade of grey, where you don't care about the money, but want to win as much money as possible. Take me to that space, please.