So day 1 is in the books and I am up $230. I went to one of my local casinos, I played a session of 6-12 oe. It was a pretty variance filled day. One of the biggest swing filled days I ever had. After the first half hour, I was up $96. Then 3 hours later, I was down $50. I regained my composure and was able to grind out a nice pay day. I decided to play really aggressively this session. I opened for a raise most of the times I entered a pot and I 3 bet several times where I would have normally called. I am definitely going to try to keep up the aggression as the weeks progress.

Regardless, this post is not a brag post. I am going to outline my plan and my goals. In the past, I have tried to motivate myself with goals and rules but have not stuck with them. I think that is because I have always done year long goals. So for 2014, I am going to do weekly goals (which I will keep to myself because that will make for too long of a thread), monthly goals, 3 month goals (once again I won't post these because of the length of the thread), and yearly goals. It seems like a lot of micro management and redundancy but I think it is what will work best for me. I want to accomplish my goals so I guess what ever works right? Lol. Well, here are my goals:

Year goals:
Live Poker
Profit $12,000
Play 450 hours
Have 80 winning days
Have a 15 day win streak
Have no more than a 7 day losing streak
Play 12 tournaments
Make one final table
Go to Vegas for the wsop

Online
Get online bankroll to $100

January goals:
Live Poker
Profit $1,000
Play 36 hours
Have 7 winning days
Have a 4 day winning streak
Have no more than a 2 day losing streak
Play 1 tournament

Online
Win a free roll

Rules:
Live Poker
Stick with the hot game(I play 1-2 nlhe and 6-12 oe. If I have a winning session, stick with that game. If I lose, switch it up)
Can spend a cash game buyin on a tournament. If desired tournament is outside of that, I have to satellite in.
Leave a cash game when money on the table represents 20% of my entire bankroll. If I have 3 consecutive losing half hours, I must leave the game.
I cannot sit in a game for more than 6 hours
Online Poker
Build the bankroll from scratch using the Ferguson rules.
Can not deposit real money

Hopefully with these goals and rules in place, I will succeed in 2014 and build my bankroll up for the future. Good luck to all of you in the new year and with your own grind.