It's hard to find a very clear-cut line as it's pretty individual. Long story short, some people are really results-oriented and are affected quite a lot, not only by the overall results but also by being mentally attached to the current result of the session (e.g. I was winning 1k and now "only" $200 which feels bad). In this case it's good to start working on being less results-oriented and view results as rarely as possible. I know example of players who check their graphs once a month.
However some players are not affected by their results that much and in this case checking their result may not have that big impact on their game.
Interestingly, some players have a strong need for feeling a complete control over every aspect of the game. In their case checking the result might be actually beneficial because they feel like they gain back the control over the game. Of course this is temporary solution and in the long run it's better to work on some other ways of feeling "in control" like very good session preparation but just wanted to show that in mental game usually the answer is "it depends" :-)

Totally agree.

Telling what to avoid and what not to do is just a part of the job. Therefore I also perceive as super important to show what you can actually do and what you can focus your attention on. That constructive part is always more important and more difficult one. Thank you for your feedback!

Sure! Here you have a link to the example mental game journal https://uploadfiles.io/s7s70

Please have in mind that this is example and some players may need different categories to measure the key elements for their mental game.

Thank you Diego!

If you do mental game evaluation just after the session, you should get pretty accurate description of your mental state during the session. You should be able to capture situations that deteriorated your perfermance and those that helped you to play better. Also you should have very good general overview of how your play was related to your emotional state.

If you do it 45 minutes later, of course you would have better idea how did you do in big pots and you would be able to assess your quality of tought decisions better. However you may miss some important conclusions regarding the impact of your emotional state on your game. Right after your game you have access to it. Even 1 hour later you may forget how exactly you felt and your brain will mostly rationalize what happened during the session, instead of giving you a real insight.

To sum it up, in my opinion the key take away from taking notes after the session is the ability to learn how your emotions are related with your performance. The importance of that definitely outweighs being more precise with your game evaluation. However if this is something really important to you, you can always take notes just after the session, and after your 45-min hand review you can slightly change your evaluation of the quality of your key decisions.

Will follow your advice then and do it right after the session.

I feel like you have already provided me with all the necessary tools to overcome this f/%%&ng downswing (and my career in general). After a whole month of bad playing and bad running, I came to realize I was doing bad simply because of having gone back the old habits of not working on improving my performance (skipped pre-session routine, skipped mental journey,... just blindly play). And also some other stuff, like quality of sleep and many other things that have fallen apart. The moments I have (out of laziness I guess) moved away from your teachings is when I have performed the worse.

Much love dear Leszek, really appreciate all your help. All the best!

Thanks Diego and good conclusions! Sometimes losing money can help us to work stronger on our game and our habits. I definitely belive that sticking to all these small things you mentioned can overall have a huge effect on your performance.
Best of luck!

Thank you so much for your comment. I am really flattered!
Wish you good luck with implementing those changes. Being more decision/process oriented takes a lot of effort, but the difference in mental game comfort is so huge that it's definitely worth it.

Yes, that was the aim of the series

Of course it always depends....

Here are some of the guidelines:

1) For people who struggle with tilt it should be lower
2) When you are on the downswing your s/l also can be on the lower side because downswing drains your muscle of discipline and takes out a lot of energy from you and makes it much easier to tilt
3) If you are doing ok, feel sharp, play your A-game it can be on the higher side as this the time when you make the most money
4) Ideally you always play yourA/B-game but in reality thats basically impossible so I would always have some sort of s/l in your mind depending on the game you are playing, downsiwng/upsiwing, your current state of mind etc. I feel like it is quite rare for people to lose eg 10BI in cash games without playing worse than at the beginning of the session.