January Results & Delusions of Grandeur

My final results for January make relatively good reading , but doesn't even tell half the story.

notgoingnewhere

706

$8

$79

9%

$5,298

-

N/A

FullTilt

1/1/2010 1/31/2010 E<=2

I had a flying start to the year,playing very well and if I'm honest running better than I've ever ran before getting up to 3k after only around 110 games....and for the first week of the year held the no 1 spot for 36-100 Dollar husng's on the sharkscope leaderboard.

Despite still being profitable since then , I found it hard to cope when variance reared it's ugly head and the worse I ran, the worse I seemed to play ( not a good combo!) 

Friends often ask me how I have the motivation to grind out heads up day after day, money obviously being the main motivation, but also the knowledge that I havent even reached 50% of my potential.

When I watch videos, speak to other profitable husng'ers I often find msyelf thinking ''wow'' I never thought of that, or '' let's try that'' and it is this constant drive of wanting to study, and improve my game that will always keep me motivated imo.

When I have times when I have a big result, or have a good stretch of games, I feel this air of invincibility, which brings about negatives as well as positives.  Often when I have a downswing it is a result of autopiloting, and I have to go to the drawing board and try and take each game as a new separate challenge, trying to ensure I'm adjusting to my opponents tendencies and not treating every villian as the same.

At times throughout January I have played a game, gone straight into a next one and played the second game in the exact same way I played the same - this is BAD - and in my opinion one of the main reasons for my breakeven/losing stretches.

I'd like to hear some of members thoughts on this matter- whats the best way of counteracting this??
Is it playing less, not 2 tabling, or just something that takes mental training?

Notgoingnewhere