I quit video games

[ThomasTLM]

I'm about to totally expose myself here.

I just deleted all video games on my laptop.

Video games are something that I haven't really been playing, but recently I've been having the temptation to get back into them. So, I've been playing Minecraft recently...

What an absolute WASTE of time. What is so wrong with me?

From this point on, I am going to live, breathe, eat, and shit entrepreneurship even if it kills me. I've wasted too much precious time on myself when I need to be focusing on...well...needs. What do people need? What is an unmet need that can be solved? (This is rhetorical!) It's time for me to put all of my focus on being a producer for others.

I've been recently reading through @G_Alexander 's success thread, and looking at the date for each of his posts. This thread started in 2014. Back then, I was only in the 8th grade. But the biggest shock to myself was thinking about what I was doing back in 2014.

Can you guess? If you guessed "playing video games", you'd be correct.

Have I matured at all? I think I have a little bit, but then I really start to question myself. Sure, I have grown older. I went to college and studied my a$$ off. I got married and I have a kid. But when it all comes right down to it, I'm still childish.

I imagine some people will see this thread and say that video games are still okay for relaxing and are leisurely. I would agree if they didn't suck up so much of my damn time - time, I might add, that I could have been utilizing to be literally productive. I'm not trying to necessarily promote "the grind" because that is only one extreme while simply wasting your time doing nothing beneficial is the opposite extreme. Productive time management is the golden mean.

I'm not sure what else there is to say about this. Perhaps if you are reading this and are debating with yourself to uninstall video games from your computer or to just simply get rid of them, I would encourage you to do so now. If you are addicted to video games, then the only way to quit them is to become addicted to something else. That's the only way you quit: you replace your addiction with something else.

Let's make the world a better place by starting with yours. An addiction is like throwing a wrench in the machine of the fastlane lifestyle. If your system is being hogged by an addiction, it's time to destroy that addiction - unless that addiction is to entrepreneurship itself.

Okay...rant over.

 

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[ChemEnginerd2024]

I'm about to totally expose myself here.

I just deleted all video games on my laptop.

Video games are something that I haven't really been playing, but recently I've been having the temptation to get back into them. So, I've been playing Minecraft recently...

What an absolute WASTE of time. What is so wrong with me?

From this point on, I am going to live, breathe, eat, and shit entrepreneurship even if it kills me. I've wasted too much precious time on myself when I need to be focusing on...well...needs. What do people need? What is an unmet need that can be solved? (This is rhetorical!) It's time for me to put all of my focus on being a producer for others.

I've been recently reading through @G_Alexander 's success thread, and looking at the date for each of his posts. This thread started in 2014. Back then, I was only in the 8th grade. But the biggest shock to myself was thinking about what I was doing back in 2014.

Can you guess? If you guessed "playing video games", you'd be correct.

Have I matured at all? I think I have a little bit, but then I really start to question myself. Sure, I have grown older. I went to college and studied my a$$ off. I got married and have a kid. But when it all comes right down to it, I'm still childish.

I imagine some people will see this thread and say that video games are still okay for relaxing and are leisurely. I would agree if they didn't suck up so much of my damn time - time, I might add, that I could have been utilizing to be literally productive. I'm not trying to necessarily promote "the grind" because that is only one extreme while simply wasting your time doing nothing beneficial is the opposite extreme. Productive time management is the golden mean.

I'm not sure what else there is to say about this. Perhaps if you are reading this and are debating with yourself to uninstall video games from your computer or to just simply get rid of them, I would encourage you to do so now. If you are addicted to video games, then the only way to quit them is to become addicted to something else. That's the only way you quit: you replace your addiction with something else.

Let's make the world a better place by starting with yours. An addiction is like throwing a wrench in the machine of the fastlane lifestyle. If your system is being hogged by an addiction, it's time to destroy that addiction - unless that addiction is to entrepreneurship itself.

Okay...rant over.

I can sympathize. I started playing Roblox with my kids about 6 months ago. Next thing I know, I'm showing up on the leaderboard for most kills on Fortline! I had to put it down once it hit me how much time I was wasting. Now I set a ten-minute limit. Thats still like 30-40 kills! I totally agree it is a waste of time compared to figuring out how to succeed in an entrepreneurial venture.

 

[15KPM]

I can relate to your story! Gaming days and endless hours.. What really helped me was (as you already said) to uninstall the software. But I also set a timer for 100 days that I was not allowed to play. After this I was allowed to play (with pizza) for 1 or 2 days, which felt really good! Then I threw everything off my laptop and did the same routine again and again.

on the difficult days I wrote sentences why gaming is not giving me the life I want.

My relationship with games has really become much more positive this way. And I didn’t banned it completely from my life.