I'm doing 37 things
One of my most measurable goals
2 weeks ago
From this past week until the end of the year, I will comment on Hari’s blog 5 times. I’ve done it once, so 4 more to go.
Philip's Life List
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1. Revise my goals and make them: specific, measurable,realistic and time bound.
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2. find a nice artsy freakish Christian girl -- then get married to her
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3. become a career counselor
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4. Overcome ADD
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5. go on a road trip with no predetermined destination
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6. become a poker coach
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7. meet other INFP's
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8. fly again
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9. remain a freak!
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10. get my nipples pierced
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11. move up to $2-5 no-limit poker
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12. get my septum pierced
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13. Date a goth chick.
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14. get married (someday)
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15. move to los angeles
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16. learn to play bass
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17. improve public transit
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18. comment more on Hari's blog
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19. Dress up like a freak goth and go for mass at a Baptist Church
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20. Spend less time fooling around on the net and more time actually working
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21. visit Montana
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22. become more goth
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23. Play the $1 double-or-nothing sit-and-gos on PokerStars
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24. Dress how I wish I dressed more often
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25. learn how to apply eyeliner
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26. Drive across the USA
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27. move to San Francisco
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28. Give the needy food and other items they would actually like.
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29. get more familiar with The Long Tail
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30. Start my own business
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31. take on only those obligations I can comfortably handle
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32. dress Goth more often
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33. do more networking
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34. i want to eat a 72oz steak at the big texan in under an hour
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35. clean my room
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36. get a new mobile phone
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37. Apply to seminary
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How I did it
It made me
frantic and worried 
How I did it: Could have been just variance, not sure, but I had gone up $2000 over the course of a couple hundred games, then I ran awful and lost the $2000 back. I ended up getting frustrated and scared and concluded that $22s were too high to play.I've since been working on ring games and multi-table SNGs, as well as live poker. I probably should have hired a coach so I didn't freak out when running bad! Read how I did it…
It made me
feel accomplished 
How I did it: I was worried because I'd lost $2000 mostly in $1-2, $1-3, and $2-5 over the course of a few sessions. It worried me enough to cause me to deemphasize brick and mortar poker and play more online.However, now that I've been learning to beat much tougher online games, I have confidence. It helps that I've run really good lately and won back all that plus more, and my winrate is up above $11/hour now at $… Read how I did it…
It made me
delighted
How I did it: I strongly suggest Ed Miller's Getting Started in Hold 'Em, even though I learned to play before it came out.To learn the rules:I forget, I just went to a home tournament and they told me what to do. I already knew the poker ranks.To get better:Read good books. Talk to good players online. Meet another local serious player regularly to pick his brain. Read how I did it…
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Recent entries
Lowest variance game in Tunica
2 weeks ago
Lately because I’d been running so terrible at live poker, I started playing the $1-5 stud game at the Horseshoe. It’s certainly lower variance! No one ever bets anything less than aces up on later streets, so (once you learn not to be dumb like me and keep trying to get value out of two low pair) you pretty much always know where you are.
But anyway, I have other poker priorities than this, so I’m going to “give up” on this goal for now.
Time to 'finish' this
3 weeks ago
Classic example of an, “I picked this thing to show you part of who I am,” thing, rather than an actual goal toward which I can measure progress. I certainly want to remain a freak but I have no idea how to measure it.
