Update

The last 9 days or so I've been really struggling to find a groove. Ever since my $10 mtt win, I've been running extremely awful, and I'm on a huge downswing, and tilt is only responsible for a small portion of it(a lot less than normal on my downswings). Since I don't have class today I'm going to take the day off in heads ups, and just play a bunch of mtts, including A LOT 180 mans, they can really help out with TLB points. Bfizz11 has this bootcamp thing, which is basically like poker school. He holds online classes, with replays available for download at $35, so I'm going to give that a try and see how it goes. He's #1 on Yearly TLB thus far, so who better to learn from, and improve my MTT game even more.

I read a friends blog, and we are kinda in the same boat/have the same thought process on our downswing. I'm trying to stay positive during this downswing. Like bpmst2 said, during a large downswing, confidence in most players drop, and negative thinking comes into play, which will lead you to not play your best game. It is extremely important to always stay in a positive frame of mind. I think the one thing I need to work on in my heads up game(mostly vs fish), is not trying to make so many hero calls, and maybe play more basic since they are so exploitable. For up and coming heads up players, trust me, try to stay positive, because if you don't it can and will lead to massive tilt, and the uneccesary loss of many buy-ins.

I'm currently in 461st on the yearly TLB. I really would love to get on the list that you see on the pokerstars client(top 150), and I don't think it is out of reach. But I'm going to need to do some griding, and have some nice results to get there. Also, I'm at 58k vpps on the year. It's closing in on 1/4 through the year, and to be on pace for 300k vpps, I would need 75k vpps, which I obviously wont be at 1/4 through the year. But you have to take into account that I missed 10 days in January since I was in the Bahamas, so I think I'm on pace, if not very close to on pace for 300k vpps. Also I have 204k fpps, so the 250k fpp bonus is in sight, and I can't wait to get started on that, as I will see it as sort of a bonus for the work I've put in so far in 2010. Also, the swelling in my leg has gone down dramatically. There's almost no black and blue on the front part of my leg, but still some on my calf, and a little on my foot, probably going to take another 4-5 days to completely heal. That's it for now.
good luck

-pomp