When it´s not there you can´t fail

You want to change something that is haunting you for a long time. It seems so simple, but you fail over and over and over again? And you really search for a solution???
Share with me just a few minutes of your time, this might be the solution you were looking for.



I think it´s almost 12 months ago that I watched a Ted-Talk from a Personal trainer.

His idea was so simple that my Girl and me decided to give it a try and stick to it and loose alot of weight and even change the quality of our lives for ever. The impact it had on us and our lives were not even imaginable at that time.

So what was it?

He told a story of his brother who was overweight, and the way he lost weight was to not buy things that make him increase weight. So rather than explain to him what exactly to eat and what to not eat. His mom and him stopped buying bread, noodles, rice and everything  hig carb related like cookies, cakes and so on.

Here is the link to the video

Wow I thought, what a simple idea.

We followed it religiously. Bread became a premium food to me, since i only ate it every 1-2 months and even then only in a restaurant with friends or family.

This is me in summer 2014 with my Girl on a festival ( remember: at this time I was already working out 3-4 times/week for almost 3 months. I started with 102 Kilos. At this picture I had about 91 Kilos on )

I will post a picture of today and of last year, once I am in germany so you can compare what is possible to achieve in one year, And even I failed a couple of times to go to the Gym. But it is possible, and every time you don´t go, will make it harder to go the next time.


Please allow me to give you an example on how this can also be used in other areas of our life:


Today I was sitting infront of my laptop just randomly watching my favorite motivational videos. When I looked over to my clothes I realized how much i disliked my style.
And how lazy I am when I grind poker the whole day or have coaching. Mostly when I give coachings I do not use the webcam, because I didnt shave or am looking like a degen. I do not wear nice clothes, because I think: What for? That I am doing it for myself, never crossed my mind.

So finally today I thought:

If I only had amazing clothes, how can I not shave? How can I fail if I have nothing that looks bad?

So today I decided to buy myself a bunch of clothes that really suit me.

I am about to fly to germany for christmas. It is 3 AM right now, as I am writing, the 23/12/2014 and I am sitting here infront of you wearing a Suit, perfectly shaved, hair done and I just finished a 30 minute workout before I got all this done. All this between 1 AM - 3 AM.

I love it.

There is alot to be learned here, I hope that you see what is so important about this story. If you change your surroundings to a way that you can not fail... You really need to try hard to fail.

Think about this little boy who was overweight. How should he gain more weight, when all he has at home is protein based and vegetables and fruits?

It is impossible for him to fail.

That´s what I wish for you too. Create your environment in a way that denies failure.

Yours

Pedro Goncalves

2014, great time, insane developements

Ok, so it´s been a while since I used this blog. I always wanted to blog somewhere else, but it endet up being good intentions :D

Well, I can´t really say that I was lazy in 2014, I clearly wasn´t (will show some results).

2014 was my first year playing exclusively mtts ( not 100% true since in mid 2014 I took a hot at playing 6max 9man and 18 man sngs, didn´t go too well. Breakeven in the end, which is a perfect result ).

The results were better than expected I think.

It could have clearly been better, but who complains about a year like that?
Some of my biggest wins include:

3rd and 6th in sunday supersonic for totaly of 46000$
1st and 3rd in the sunday major on pokerstars.fr for total of 30000€
4 ept seats 3 worth 9000€ one worth 5300€
2nd in the hotter 55$ for 13000$
1st in the hot 44
and many more smaller wins....


Also our students with our coaching site:

pokerlifestyle-coaching

Made huge progress, I am very proud of them. The results and friendships I developed due to this site are amazing. I know that we will have an awesome 2015 infront of us.

Portugal also has been an amazing time, not as good as 2013 I must admit since we worked more on stuff outside Poker. We rented 3 apartments and 1 house in summer, which sometimes led to huge amounts of work. Helping the clients, explaining things to them, being available 24/7 and so on....
But we mastered it and my girlfriend and me did a very good job in our first year. And we also met very nice and good people over the year.


Including dombomain33 and his girlfriend. Very cool and nice people. Was funny at the beginning since his GF is from Costa Rica and over there its super warm and beginning 2014 when they arrived in February it was super cold down here in Portugal. So she was freezing to death and was also wearing jackets all day every day even in 20 degrees sunlight.
We also had guys down here like dreiven, szepard, rvmvnvs and many more...
Overall it was an amazing year, we learned alot and we grew alot as people.

I think this truly relates to me...In terms of Poker I think I developed an insane amount, I am still not as good as others, but clearly I start to see the little things and it starts to be very awesome.

Whenever I play versus amazing Pokerplayers ( mostly str8$$$homey, cal42688, pistons, and other mtt giants ) I watch them extremely closely and pay attention to every move. And you can bet your ass that next time we meet I found some plays to counter them a bit more.


On our site we work very hard with our students on developing their Pokerskills but one thing People don´t know I assume is all the Mental game work we put in.

We talk alot about books, Videos, Lifestyle, Friends, Family and Money....
I realized that most people have the same Problems in these areas. And while I still think having a girlfriend is one of the hardest things in Life I think mastering the rest is peanuts.

There are clear signs and paths we can follow to get the desired reward in each area.

Also in 2014 my inner need grew to help more and deeper. I started to coach and help people in finance related Problems and questions.

I realized that when you live you life with all you basic needs beeing paid for, your life is filled with alot more happiness and Joy. So even if you sleep all year, on the first of January you will have all your bills paid for the next year. Just imagine how much more happiness and freedom you would have if that happened to you for the rest of your life... It is amazing...

Is there really a way to achieve that????  The answer is clearly: YES!!!!!!!!!


On my new website: here I show easy ways to understand why we fail, and how we can change that.
All information there is free. We will also plan to deliver a full YEAR of videos for a very small fee, including coaching packages for anyone to get from where you are to total freedom.


I was sitting at home in my garden in a sunny day invisioning to myself: man, how amazing would it be to have all my friends wakeup on the 1.January of a year completely drunk still from last nights party, after a nice breakfast reaching to their laptop, opening their bankaccounts and seeing 10000€ more in there.

Then reaching to a piece of paper they keep in their pocket the whole year with bankaccounts of their electricity company, their bank, water, and so on, take that out and send out the bill payments for the next year. Then going back to bed again and relaxing till next year they get another payment...for the rest of their lives...


Imagine how you would feel??!!

Never having to pay for your bills again....I did that years ago, and I always wanted to share my system, but I never knew how and when..But I think now is the time. I want people to be happy and live the life they deserve.

This will take alot of work since I know how sceptical and undisciplined most people are. And how hard it seems to get to that point ( altho its incredibly easy to be honest ).


Anyway, things are perfect right now. Life can get better, but damn it was an amazing start :D

I wish you all the best. Make sure to checkout www.changethewhy.com , it is completely free, and also what I love about it is that you can see all my early attempts to make videos, a new website and much more...how the quality of my videos changed and how I changed along the way.

Progress is the NAME of the GAME....



I wish you all the best.

Your Pedro Goncalves