I've been a professional poker player for the last 3 and a half years. Or, more specifically, I've made enough money to live off poker during that time. I've probably been the most unprofessional pro poker player out there.

Well, enough is enough. My results have been, well, poor. I talk a great game but I don't play one. I'm beating the games, for sure, and more than well enough to make a decent living. But I'm not in this game for mediocrity. I'm in the game for money and maybe a little fame on the side. Money on its own would be fine.

So I need to buck up my ideas. Beat the midstakes for > 5ptbb/100. Put in 40k hands/month. Blah blah blah. All the things that so many people 'worse' than me at poker have been doing for a while.

I need to become the best poker player I can be.

I'm going to make a lot of small changes to my game and my mentality. Some are small, some a major, some will take a while to come into force. Some I will make public, some will be kept private.

The first that I'll make public is a really simple, easy, small thing.

I will not check my cashier balance or profit for the day in HEM while playing. I will not have mozilla, msn, aim or skype open while playing.

That is all. Simple, right?