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starting the challenge today
- pamela
- Senior Member
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Re: starting the challenge today
Hi Joy,you will only fail if you let yourself fail..think positive and tell yourself you CAN do this challenge..good luck
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- jimi68
- Senior Member
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Re: starting the challenge today
good on you.
Hey I'm the guy that tries every year to give up smoking and allways ends up with a cigarette in his mouth again (just one).
Id swear to never do it again and then get tempted
I would rationalize just one more wont hurt (its only one)
then find myself back again...
After I drew a line in the sand...
I was going back and rubbing it out!!
So i know what its like to feel like I'm constantly failing.
you said "'havnt started earlier because I expected to fail"'
(why?- have you tried on your own, with sheer willpower and no support in the past and failed?)
So, hopefully you feel a bit more optimistic today because you started.
!00 days is made up of 100xone day at a time.
That's all you got to do
one day at a time..
Stay on the horse even when it steps backwards and keep going......forewards
You don't need luck
just stay on the horse...
Hey I'm the guy that tries every year to give up smoking and allways ends up with a cigarette in his mouth again (just one).
Id swear to never do it again and then get tempted
I would rationalize just one more wont hurt (its only one)
then find myself back again...
After I drew a line in the sand...
I was going back and rubbing it out!!
So i know what its like to feel like I'm constantly failing.
you said "'havnt started earlier because I expected to fail"'
(why?- have you tried on your own, with sheer willpower and no support in the past and failed?)
So, hopefully you feel a bit more optimistic today because you started.
!00 days is made up of 100xone day at a time.
That's all you got to do
one day at a time..
Stay on the horse even when it steps backwards and keep going......forewards
You don't need luck
just stay on the horse...
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- Desperate
- Junior Member
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Re: starting the challenge today
Hi Joy
I look forward to reading your posts and your progress. I started Sunday and even tried the online counselling chat - where did I end up Sunday night? Yep, you guessed it! No more online counselling chat for me - just talking about them made me start thinking about them and then the urge became too strong and off I went.
These forums I think are much better for me, I read of people swimming in debt (like myself), people full of self loathing and criticism (like me) and it encourages/motivates me to change. It's too late for me to get back all those things I could have had and enjoyed but it's not too late to find the things about myself that I can like again.
Have a great week!
I look forward to reading your posts and your progress. I started Sunday and even tried the online counselling chat - where did I end up Sunday night? Yep, you guessed it! No more online counselling chat for me - just talking about them made me start thinking about them and then the urge became too strong and off I went.
These forums I think are much better for me, I read of people swimming in debt (like myself), people full of self loathing and criticism (like me) and it encourages/motivates me to change. It's too late for me to get back all those things I could have had and enjoyed but it's not too late to find the things about myself that I can like again.
Have a great week!
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- blastoise (facilitator)
- Senior Member
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Re: starting the challenge today
Hi Joy!
Welcome to the GH Forum! Good on you for taking the plunge, and keep us posted on your achievements, and struggles.
Fingers and toes!
Blastoise
Welcome to the GH Forum! Good on you for taking the plunge, and keep us posted on your achievements, and struggles.
Fingers and toes!
Blastoise
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- Desperate
- Junior Member
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Re: starting the challenge today
If you haven't gone back since joining YAY FOR YOU Joy!! I'm sitting here shrugging my shoulders because I went the night I joined and then I went on Tuesday night - I don't even know why. The only thing I can think of is that I was feeling vulnerable in my new job (the other new staff are all half my age!) and after being made redundant in May I'm feeling a little insecure I think.
But each day is a new day and every day I don't go is a win for me. My debts are ginormous as well so I will just have to chip away at them. It's horrifying to think I got into this position because of pokies.
But each day is a new day and every day I don't go is a win for me. My debts are ginormous as well so I will just have to chip away at them. It's horrifying to think I got into this position because of pokies.
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- Shirley (facilitator)
- Member