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So I have been trying to improve in SC2 for a while now. I have been in the Mid master's range as a Terran player for a while. I have been trying to play more to improve, but here is the problem I cant stay motivated.
It's summer time. College is over, I'm a bum with no job, cause I can afford to be unemployed(living on some savings, selling stuff on ebay, and GF's money lol) So I have the WHOLE DAY to play SC2. The first like 2 weeks I was doing well. Paying about 8-9hrs a day 5-6 days a week about 25-30 games a day. I loved the feeling at the end of the day. I would be tired but in an awesome way. But then it all went to hell. I started waking up later (need to do my practice\ training in the morning\ mid afternoon so I can have some sort of a social life). Then I started making up stupid excuses for not playing. Now the good all laziness kicked in.
Anyone have any suggestion? About staying motivated or actual SC2 practice itself? I would just grind Ladder games with food and bathroom breaks. I figure since my mechanics are not perfect yet, playing MANY ladder games should help me out.
I do not want to piss this summer away as I have with many summers before. IT would be awesome if I could actually be some improve, and it is my understanding that a good way to do that is to play a lot and play consistently. So TL help me out. I must overcome this laziness, and make good use of my time and play A LOT of StarCraft 2 hehe.
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try joining a clan or some team, they will get you to play more and you can talk about the games as well
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physical exercises. I can't picture myself playing 8-9hrs a day without stretching or doing any physical activities. I spend about 2-3hrs daily at the gym, including 1hr of cardio. Not only it helps to overcome laziness but keeps me fit, physically and mentally energetic and healthy.
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Even though this is TL, spending your entire summer playing 8+ hours of SC2 everyday alone and living on your savings / GFs money seems like "pissing the summer away" to me, and probably will to you in a few years.
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Makes notes to yourself regarding starcraft goals. It's a lot easier to get motivated if you are practicing towards something. Also try entering some online tournies or just play practice games with friends. Make it social or competitive(or both).
No one wants to just grind ladder games with no purpose. I mean mass gaming can be helpful in some situations, but if you are trying to get motivated, setting specifics goals is probably the best way.
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Yea, sign up for a tournament in the future and dedicate your practice for it.
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On June 28 2011 14:26 cz wrote:
Even though this is TL, spending your entire summer playing 8+ hours of SC2 everyday alone and living on your savings / GFs money seems like "pissing the summer away" to me, and probably will to you in a few years.
agree with this. improve everything else before you worry about sc2
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You're pissing your summer away if all you have planned is SC for 8 hours a day. Go outside, hangout with friends, get a part time job..the main thing is to do SOMETHING. Years from now you'll look back and realize spending all day everyday playing a game was a waste of time.
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Well it seems that you're already good at the game. Not professional good, but you basically know what you need to do to compete at your level. Don't feel like you need to play SC2 all day everyday. Judging from your rank (unless you cheese too much on ladder), you have all of the "base skills" of SC2, so you don't need to practice a lot to maintain your skill. If you're not motivated to become pro and mass game all day, then mass gaming will just hurt you. Sneak in some SC2 games before bed and stuff. And don't play with a "need to win" mentality. It is ladder; ladder is not a big deal. With every loss, look over the replay really quick just to see what you did wrong, and try to fix it with your next few games.
Basically, you just need to chill. If you're comfortable with your skill level, then mass gaming won't help. And you obviously don't want to improve at extremely fast rates since you're not motivated.
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I kind of have the same, I work from 6-2 at night for my summer job, 7 days a week. Living on myself in a french town at the moment. I got devoured by my free time at first, haha. but what I did was make a schedule for myself (that also included the gym):
wake up at 12
Get breakfast
Browse
Gym from 2-4
Take a stroll through town, try to hussle some girls :D
5:15 go to work
For you I'd do something like:
wake up at 8
Breakfast, brushing teeth etc.
Gym 8:45-10:15
shower, get changed 10:30
Ladder 13:30
Lunch 13:45
Ladder 17:45
Go for a 5k and shower 18:45
Day9? 19:45
Food 20:30
Teammates practice/more ladder/browse tl if you really want 22:30
I'd avoid browsing too much. An easy way is to get a reasonable schedule and just stick with it. And working out for me is the best way to stay motivated in anything I do.
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I have to agree with most already posting.
If you really want to improve make a schedule at stick with it.
Get in a good rythm of waking up at 8.00 (maybe even 7 to be ready to do something - play/gym - at 8).
Set clear goals: "I have to play 5 games with this opening" "I have to practice X atleast XX min"
Eat and drink (not alcohol). Sounds simply but without food and water you will burn out.
Enjoy it. If you are in a routine/schedule that feel like hell, change it. Practice less or in other ways - as mentioned with a team or a good practice partner.
But in the end 8 hours of gaming every day might not be the most productive summer unless you want to go pro.
Oh last tip: Put in time for your GF in the schedule! 
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damn you are hardcore, i don't think i could ever play 30 games in a day (i may browse and watch tourneys and stuff though so don't think i am being passive aggressive with that statement). Also if you want motivation you need something to drive you, so set arbitrary ladder goals or like previously stated enter an amateur tourney or like a TL open. Put your practice to it and then you have something to work for. Just make sure your life does not spiral out of control
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Try to pick out a player in GM that you don't like and think to yourself "wow, I NEED to beat him!" That way you'll always have a goal when you're trying to improve, which helps a lot more than you think. That's what I did anyways, hope it'll help you too!
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hmm, a lot of good stuff here, Just to clarify when i would play 8 hrs a day i would wake up at around 7:30 am and be done with SC2 at around 4-5 pm and the rest of the day was GF, Basketball, workout, or just hang with friends. I do not wanna spend ALL of my summer playing sc2, but most of it will do.
Hehe the funniest thing is the summers that I worked full time and made money, or w\e it is people consider a good use of one's time, i felt like i wasted my time, but that's just me.
Thanks for your advice I will try making, and keeping, a tighter schedule.
I am on a team, just an amateur team ofc, but they mostly play during evenings and nights and I'm not on SC2 then. Same thing goes for practice partners. I realize this is mostly cause most people aren't really bumming out and up and ready to play SC2 at 8am lol, cause of work, school etc.
And I will start having goals that are more specific so i have something to work towards.
Also i do not know if i wanna go PRO, I just want so see if I can compete at a higher level if I work harder at this game. If it turns out that I don't have what it takes, after I put quite a lot of time into it, then I don't have it and life goes on.
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well seeing as you're an unemployed deadbeat mooch, it's not much of a surprise that you find it difficult to get motivated for sc. Get a job, stop living off of your girlfriend and since your time to play will be limited, you're appreciate it that much more and care
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if the fun and enjoyment alone isn't a motivator, why play? XD
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Holy fark dude, how do you live with yourself? Get off your lazy butt, and get a job, and work out for a couple hours a week, and I can guarantee you that SC2 will get a lot more fun to you. Load your schedule up to the point where you never quite feel like you can get enough SC2 in in a day, and that is the point at which you'll probably never get bored of it. I used to play for ~3-5 hours a day, and would go through game after game, always getting bored fairly quickly. I started doing other crap with my life, and now the 1-2 hours I get never seems to be enough, and I've bought exactly two games in the last 2 years, SC2 and HoN.
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Your girlfriend..... I don't care how busted or bad she is. She deserves better.
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why are you seeing starcraft as a tedious training exercise?! obviously, if you're procrastinating from doing it, then don't do it?! usually i procrastinate from doing things that are unpleasant but, to my utmost dispair, mandatory. take a break. spend time with your gf. do some chores around the house.
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On June 29 2011 01:32 SuperJongMan wrote:
Your girlfriend..... I don't care how busted or bad she is. She deserves better.
Truer words have never been spoken
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Physical exercise and a clan really help you stay focused during your gaming sessions  Also if the problem is you not liking the monotony of ladder, then come up with a nice, long playlist. It really helps to have something you listen to while doing boring tasks (macro, worker splits, etc.) Just my 2 cents <3
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Hehe the funniest thing is the summers that I worked full time and made money, or w\e it is people consider a good use of one's time, i felt like i wasted my time, but that's just me.
It's society's norm of what is "right" to spend time on. It might not be right for you. I'm pretty sure that society thought that the Wright brothers spend their time in a weird ass fashion when they wanted to build flying machines.
Do whatever you feel is right and stick with it. It will most likely even itself out in the end; you find the right job, splitting up with GF, going pro or whatever. Something to trigger a change.
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On June 29 2011 04:38 Dirkzor wrote:
Do whatever you feel is right and stick with it. It will most likely even itself out in the end; you find the right job, splitting up with GF, going pro or whatever. Something to trigger a change.
Don't think i will leave my GF. She is very supportive of this SC2 obsession I've been having, but thanks for the warm words :D
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