Okay, the title is probaly quite incorrect. I kinda just used it too grab your attention. But I need your advice anyway. Well, when it comes to self-discipline and resisting temptation, i am about as strong as a fat kid near mudcake So i just finished my HSC (err, end of school exam and into uni/college next year) and ive pretty much denied myself any real gaming for over 12 months. WoW *boom, out the window* Ragnarok *shift-delete* Farcry *etc etc*. You get the point. And as you guessed it, about 7 months ago i stopped ABing after i got iced to concentrate. I just kinda hung around here occasionally just for the great company *ngaww*. About 5 minutes ago I just bought Achetuer Ultime, the creme de le crem of ABs. Except, once i start gaming and using the internet profusely, i noticed EVERY other part of my life disintegrates. Ive only hit up the (home) gym like twice this week and that was at 4am after playing computer games. And you bet i've already gotten back into some games.. So I think ABing is going to throw me further into the point of no return of games.. I dunno, should I start all that gaming stuff? Because I'll probaly be starting a job soon, and uni/college early next year. DO i want the massive time-leecher of gaming on my back when im trying to keep fit, study and work at the same time? Advice from the more mature members (or just pretentious peeps) please? Thanks =D (This is going to be so embarassing if no one replies)
You know, I used to hardcore maple story, star craft, just everything except homework / studies. Just like you, I sorta quit everything as a focus point for school work, and then, 2 years of quitting, I came back to neo with cheats. I go on everyday now, and i'm almost always on NFnet. I am such a dork. You can AB, sell, but I think you need a really huge sense of self discipline to be able to succeed. Even now, I am reading social notes, while i'm typing this, and jsut full on getting distracted. I'm going to Uni next year too. I am ashamed of myself. Things like this gets addicting. I remember finally letting go of maple story, all those games, even when I quit neopets, I was proud of myself. I never thought i'd return but now that I grew older, I did other things and stuff, and as usually night after night when I get home, I waste time on lame things like neo when I shouldn't have. If you are a person who can truly want to do something {aka study} then i'd say, you wouldn't have a problem with picking up this neo hobby again as long as you can somehow get back to your "real world" schedule. :yup:
Hahahahaha Maplestory? eheheheh well, atleast I had the sense to get distracted and fail my life with a GOOD GAME. hahaha maple story. you crack me up nahh, atleast one redeeming place is NFnet. Its one of the best forums ive been too. its a little slow at times with getting responses, but everyone here is like a great big family. just a little dysfunctional and with a few threats going around, but what family doesent. yea.. well the job I hopefully get into is one of my passions - sales - so maybe that would hold enough interest for me to not get too addicted to games. But seriously, Ragnarok wastes my life. I don't even like it that much ._.
can't you guys do both lol.... it is hard to concentrate on two things. Im having trouble at the moment.
I think I'm in the same boat. Last year I did at least an hour and a half of homework a night, but this year after starting neopets again, I do maybe an hour and a half of homework a week. And it's not getting any better, I just reinstalled KotOR with a bunch of pretty sweet mods, so now that's going to start stealing more time from homework. I wish I had the self-control to stop, but.....
LOL the essence of help and positivity of this thread has gone out the window lets just all talk about how much we all fail =D
I am kind of in a different boat. I raided on WoW 4 nights a week 4 hours a night, and I was able to pass 90% of my classes. I quit raiding, and my grades have actually dropped. I think it is because I used to be on a schedule and I was able to allocate time for homework. Now, I just keep telling myself "ehh i have all night to do my homework." and I don't get it done. I feel so slipping behind in school.
:lol: Yeah it does seem like that, doesn't it. I know I said I had the same problem before, but I think the best way to get rid of temptation is to physically "get rid" of it. Go through and delete the games from the hard drive, and ask a friend or family member to take the games and hide them somewhere. That's what I would do if I wanted to get rid of my temptation, but as of right now the tiny amount of homework I do hasn't affected my grades, so everything's still good .
Don't worry about it...in all likelihood, you will grow up and mature relatively soon and you will stop playing a lot of the games that you are addicted to now. At least, what happened to me was that when I went to college I spent a lot more time hanging out with friends or playing console games with friends than 1p things on my computer. Now I just play NP and frequent a couple forums in my spare time. I've stopped playing things like Gunz, Starcraft, and AoE
I suggest doing both. Take a digital recorder to class---then u can sleep in college. thats what im doing. If you quit playing then start back up u feel the need to catch up and spend too much time playing. turn that recorder on while your playing.
The easiest way to resist temptation is to make a decision about it before hand. It's a lot easier to decide whether to do something or not if you decide it in advanced. So decide that you're going to go to the gym when you wake up, so that you don't have to decide what to do you when you're sitting at your computer with the AB at hand, because it's a lot harder to decide when it's already right in front of you.
Maybe make use of the auto in autobuyer? Like fire ABer up and do your excerices? Than return, fire your auto pricer up and do your homework? Something like that?
"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" I think you have to try and adopt a middle road and crack your homework and stuff and then do your gaming. Easy for me to say as I am old and retired and do nothing else but play. :arf: And before you think "Get a life" it may help you to know I had a life once but am now paralysed by a SCI and more or less house bound...admittedly it is a nice house in rural Thailand and I have no complaints :yup: