your wish is my command

"What you see and feel about yourself is the result of every thought you have ever had."
-Rhonda Byrne

I need to begin this post by saying that I have wanted to write a new post for a long time, but as always, it seems that this blog is very low on the priority list. So what has happened since then? Nothing really. Since my last post, no huge discernable events have happened in my life. It has been more like a change going on in my mind which will directly lead to better things.

I'm going to start this post with a story to illustrate the way that I am thinking now. This time last year, I enjoyed playing poker. I was doing so-so, mostly a break even player playing 3/6 limit, 30 dollar SNGs and tournament poker. I was more or less a break even player because I did not yet have the mindset, skill, or experience at either of those three things to be a consistently winning player. Before skyview(where I played mostly back then), I was simply a holdem player who played nothing but tournament holdem and the occasional online cash game. I decided after three winning sessions of 3/6 to take a stab at the 2.50/5 no limit holdem game. It was a big step, but something that I felt needed to be done if I was every going to get past the "grinding" stage of my young career. What I immediately found was that although I was playing against people with much more experience and moxxy than I had, I could still play a defensive game and make money. After seeing good results "grinding" the 2.50/5 game, about a month later I moved up to the 5/5 NL game where the big boys lived. You might not think that there is a big difference between the two games, but trust me when I say this: there is. I was up and down until one night I went in there and envisioned myself having a huge cash score. That night, I had the biggest recorded win in the history of the 5/5 game at skyview simply because I believed that the only thing I could do that night was win money. And that's all that happened. It was like watching Jamie Gold at the world series; people just handed their chips to me.

That story very well illustrates an important point that I often forgot when I sat down at the table: if you believe it can happen, it can happen. I lost that magic over the ensuing weeks at skyview, but I believe that I've rediscovered it thanks to this book that I'm reading. It's called The Secret by Rhonda Byrne, and it really has changed the way that I look at things. The basis of the book is that there exists a law of attraction in the world that governs everything we do. This law of attraction is powered by one thing and one thing only: our thoughts. It argues(quite successfully) that our whole universe was created by the thoughts of people. I can say that I agree with that because everything that was ever invented, built, constructed, ie, had to be thought up by someone first. Everything that we read in our textbooks had to be thought of by someone who then put it into a practical application. Also, the book focuses on the fact that we can get anything we want because we are able to think about what we want to happen in our head. To prove that this has held true, they use the example of the Genie and the three wishes. We have all heard the story, but what we don't know is that the wishes were unlimited in the original version. The Genie simply said: your wish is my command. Now what if we applied this to our lives where we can literally think that anything can happen? Ding ding ding, we also have unlimited wishes! All we need to do is figure out what we want, ask for it, and be unwavering in our support. Remember though, if we waver from our thinking, our wish is our command. If you have doubts that it will happen, of course it won't happen then. My main criticism of the book is that it is very, very repetitive. The author could have took out many of the parts(namely the part about how Jesus, Judah, and Abraham lived like millionaires). Every single page is just a recap of what "The Secret" is and how it applies to many different things. By the end of the book though, you will know "The Secret" and all that it entails.

My spring break was a thing of beauty. I didn't touch an academic book until today when I did a little calculus and got out my accounting book to look up a few things in regards to stocks. I'm done writing though for now. I'll be back with more frequent posts in the coming days. Until then, enjoy yourselves.

mh