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I am cranky. I have a cold…when I have a cold I act as if I have the plague…
But, tomorrow is ONE OF MY ALL TIME FAVORITE DAYS of the year. It’s a day to dream, to foreward think, to visualize what the next year will be like.
So, tomorrow, I will get up and dream, and write, and perhaps even collage my ideal self for 2008. That includes, what does the ideal day look like? What components go into that ideal day…
So, for tonight, I will cuddle in, watch movies, “nurse my cold” and know that 2008 will be a grand year.
Yes, I have given up resolutions…I have been studying “goal setting” and hae lots of goodies to share…
Oh, yeah, the last teleconference with Robert Emmons, THANKS, was fascinating. Can’t wait to share a bit of this and that…
What do you need to add to your New Year? How will you add it?
Smart
Specific
Measureable
Attainable
Realistic
Timely…
Until tomorrow….or, see you next year.
Smoochers
Beth
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January 2nd, 2008 at 8:35 am
Here is to a WONDERFUL New Year for all of us!!!!
We are all capable of surviving the worst things possible so together we not only survive we thrive..
I have never been a resolution person so it was something I only did a few times with no success.
I never really planned or set myself up in anyway to succeed. Never shared my plans with others so I could have support simply because it never happened. More than likely the support I would receive would not be in favor of success.
So, several months ago I decided that I wanted to quit smoking and since the 2 people I shared it with just laughed and told me it wouldn’t happen I decided that making a plan and going it alone were better than negative input from others. So I started working on my plan and working the plan into my daily life. Thinking that it would be easier when the time actuall came if these other activities were already a part of my routine.
Slowly these other activities became worked into my days. I had intentionally quit going outside to smoke at certain times. Such as when I woke up in the morning or after a meal.
There was no set time between cigarettes, but I did cut back slowly over the last few months so that my mind wasn’t constantly thinking that it was time to go outside and smoke when the day arrived. I went from smoking 2 packs a day to less than a half a pack. Instead of going outside I would exercise for 15 to 20 minutes and soon found that when I was done I didn’t really want to smoke at that time.
My most important goal for 2008 is to be an ex-smoker. January first just happened to be the day I had planned to make my first smoke free day and I succeeded. I exercised, read, and slept, but did not smoke.. Today i will exercise, work, read, and work on my other activites, but smoking isn’t a part of that plan and won’t happen.
The key for me is to redirect my thoughts when they start focusing on smoking. It will also be very important that I don’t exchange smoking for eating, so I am being very careful with my tendancy to just replace the smoking habit with eating or worse than that “nothing”.
So you are the first to hear my main goal for this year.
L
January 2nd, 2008 at 4:42 pm
YOU GO GIRL,
Quitting smoking years ago was one of the best gifts I ever gave myself.
You are the bomb-diggity…..
Beth