Goals, Results, and New Ambitions

For those of you that don't know how sit and go's work, I'll explain a little bit. Basically, I play 9 person tournaments that start as soon as 9 players sit down at the table. They are no limit tournaments with blinds that go every few hands or every few minutes depending on the structure. 50% of the prize pool goes to first place, 30% to second, and 20% to third. These tournaments make up approximately 99% of the time that I spend playing poker. I'm going to try to make a habit out of posting my results here. Here is the first installment of those results:

Today: 30 sngs played, -$204

April: 629 sngs played (I've been way too lazy this year), +$3,212

2007: 1684 sngs played (again I need to stop being lazy and play more), +$14,140

Like I said in my last post, sit and go's currently make up a large portion of my income. I don't really consider myself an expert player, but I am fairly accomplished, and I think I'm one of the best players at the limit I play. I'm currently in the beginning stages of writing an SNG book for beginner's and intermediate players looking to improve and beat low limit SNGs. Obviously I am doing this partially because I feel that I can make a decent amount of money from selling my book on the internet (amazon, ebay, clickbank, etc.), but that's definitely not my only motivation for writing this book. I also have a genuine desire to accomplish something big. I really don't feel like I have had any real major goals to accomplish since I graduated from college last year. This will definitely give me something to shoot for. I'd like to get this done by the end of the summer. This isn't going to be some crappy ebook...its going to be a full instructional book. I expect to get to 100 pages pretty easily and I could see it getting to 200 without too much elaboration. Obviously getting a book that size done in a few months is an ambitious goal, but I think its doable.

My goals for the summer go something like this:
1. Write the book!
2. Get in shape - I'm not a huge lifter, but doing a fair amount of running is probably something I'll do.
3. Play a ton of poker.
4. Quit my real job and find some other source of income besides poker.