MOTIVATION AND INSPIRATION
Posted by: foxy9 - May 13, 1999
WHAT TO DO TODAY?
I woke up early today, excited over all I get to do before the clock strikes midnight. My job is to choose what kind of day I am going to have.
Today I can complain because the weather is rainy or I can be thankful that the grass is getting watered for free.
Today I can feel sad that I don't have more money or I can be glad that my finances encourage me to plan my purchases wisely and guide away me from waste.
Today I can grumble about my health or I can rejoice that I am alive. Today I can lament over all that my parents didn't give me when I was growing up or I can feel grateful that they allowed me to be born.
Today I can cry because roses have thorns or I can celebrate that thorns have roses. Today I can mourn my lack of friends or I can excitedly embark upon a quest to discover new job relationships.
Today I can whine because I have to go to work or I can shout for joy because I have a job to go to!
Today I can complain because I have to go to school or eagerly open my mind and fill it with knowledge and adventure.
Today I can dejectedly murmur because I have housework to do or I can feel grateful for shelter for my mind, body and soul.
Today stretches ahead of me, waiting to be shaped, and here I am, the sculptor who gets to do the shaping.
What today will be like is up to me. And I shall decide what kind of day I shall have!
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Posted by: foxy9 - Jun 16, 1999
Remember that there are only two good reasons to take a puff once you quit. You decide you want to go back to your old level of consumption until smoking cripples and then kills you, or, you decide you really enjoy withdrawal and you want to make it last forever.
As long as neither of these options appeal to you—never take another puff!
© 1987. Rush North Shore Medical Center. Good Health Program
Posted by: foxy9 - Jun 16, 1999
Today, sit down and write some one-liners about the positives you have experienced since quitting smoking, like your sense of smell beginning to come back or maybe your cough is disappearing. Be sure to concentrate on the positive here. Keep this paper where you can add to it, perhaps on a daily basis or at least weekly. Read through it whenever you get an urge to go back to smoking.
from http://quitsmoking.about.com/library/blarchtips6.htm?pid=2756&cob=home.
Posted by: foxy9 - Jun 16, 1999
I look out my window on my backyard that is so beautiful and the urge comes over me. In the past I would have fought this urge to have a smoke but today I embrace this demon. I accept that he is here. I look him in the face and say "it is OK. I understand that you are here and want to smoke, It's OK for you to be here demon I embrace you" He is pissed and digs in to my desires and tries to get me to give in to the temptation but I look at him and say, "Stay as long as you like, I have other things that I need to do. I will be here for you if you need, I embrace you for you have no where else to go and you are mine, you are of my creation. I am sorry that I have created you however I have and now I must live with you until you feel that you can go out on your own and not be a part of me anymore" "I embrace you for you are mine"
I feel better now that I have done that. The first few day are the hardest but I have learned one thing and that is to embrace this demon cause it will drive me nut's if I don't. I put my arm's around it and tell it that it's OK for him to be here now, it is perfectly normal for this demon to be present and I am sorry that I have created him but it is necessary for me to accept him so that I can move on.
Today I embrace this demon, nicotine, so that tomorrow I may set him free. Tomorrow I may let him go out into the universe as just the thought that he is never to hurt me again. Today I embrace you my demon!
posted on as3 by Tom @ One day, 15 hours, 48 minutes and 17 seconds.
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