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Originally Posted by Purplrks3647 
....I should get back to that "gym" thing......
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Originally Posted by MidnightBlue
You will.
It's not all rainbows and unicorns, but it's totally doable.
Focus on today. Plan for tomorrow. Don't get overwhelmed about "what if". Know your triggers.
Protect your sobriety. It will protect you at some point.
It's not all rainbows and unicorns, but it's totally doable.
Focus on today. Plan for tomorrow. Don't get overwhelmed about "what if". Know your triggers.
Protect your sobriety. It will protect you at some point.
♥ 
ours de petit cerveau
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Originally Posted by saoutchik
Good grief. I have just seen a TV ad for something called Creme Eggs - they used to be an Easter thing.
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Originally Posted by Dee74
Hi guys
what about you guys - what are some of your most wanted changes (inner or outward) for 2018?
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what about you guys - what are some of your most wanted changes (inner or outward) for 2018?
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And scary.
I need to move.
I have no idea how I am going to pull it, but I have to.
I had waited so long to move to my own place. And as much as I love it, it's the same neighbourhood and painful memories literally haunt me at every corner.
I feel like I am suffocating.
That's too much to wrap my head around it right now. But I have to find a way. I can't postpone my life any longer.
Lots of things seemed to be impossible in the past.
Ok. See you)
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Originally Posted by andyh
I was just thinking earlier that Hot Cross Buns should be in the shops soon - Easter is early this year, after all.
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Originally Posted by Dee74
Hi guys
'scuse the ramble...
I'm not one for New Years Resolutions really- I try to make changes as they're needed - but New Years is as good a time as any to think about what we'd like our year ahead to look like
I've always gotten a lot from Richard Bach. One my favourite quotes of his is:
There's elements of Buddhism, Tolle and The Secret in that one
If we turn that outwards, its not a million miles away from
so I guess if I'm thinking about it, I hope I can do some good this year.
For me service work is the 2nd tier of my recovery after not drinking or drugging. It's the maintenance of the engine that is my sober life .
and that brings me nicely to the third of of my favourite quotes from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Change, growth, and positivity all start in me.
Of course real change is a process and not an event, and sometimes change takes a little time and patience, maybe even a false start or two.
We should be gentle with ourselves - but determined too I think.
Baby steps are fine if thats all we can manage to start with - as long as we face forward.
The greatest waves can start from the smallest ripples right?
what about you guys - what are some of your most wanted changes (inner or outward) for 2018?
D
'scuse the ramble...
I'm not one for New Years Resolutions really- I try to make changes as they're needed - but New Years is as good a time as any to think about what we'd like our year ahead to look like
I've always gotten a lot from Richard Bach. One my favourite quotes of his is:
There's elements of Buddhism, Tolle and The Secret in that one
If we turn that outwards, its not a million miles away from
so I guess if I'm thinking about it, I hope I can do some good this year.
For me service work is the 2nd tier of my recovery after not drinking or drugging. It's the maintenance of the engine that is my sober life .
and that brings me nicely to the third of of my favourite quotes from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Change, growth, and positivity all start in me.
Of course real change is a process and not an event, and sometimes change takes a little time and patience, maybe even a false start or two.
We should be gentle with ourselves - but determined too I think.
Baby steps are fine if thats all we can manage to start with - as long as we face forward.
The greatest waves can start from the smallest ripples right?
what about you guys - what are some of your most wanted changes (inner or outward) for 2018?
D
Bumping for anyone else who missed this.. ♥
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Hey Midnight ~ I understand being scared of moving, but look at me!!!! Look what I did....oh sure it was scary as heck. But worth it. Feel the fear and do it anyway my firend....you will not regret it. 
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I have a long list of things I want and intend to bring into my life in 2018.
I guess I could share...I feel like I talk about myself too much sometimes, but I guess I don't really...OK....introspective self-indulgent analysis over. For the moment.
(I get nuttier when I'm tired).
♥I have a long list of things I want and intend to bring into my life in 2018.
I guess I could share...I feel like I talk about myself too much sometimes, but I guess I don't really...OK....introspective self-indulgent analysis over. For the moment.
(I get nuttier when I'm tired).
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Venus, you don't strike me as someone who talks too much about herself - quite the opposite.
Please, share if you feel like doing it. I'd love to hear what others are up to this year)
Please, share if you feel like doing it. I'd love to hear what others are up to this year)
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Thank you, Sao.
Just the thought that I can run across my ex along with his nuts-job wife makes me feel like throwing up.
The only thing which I would genuinely miss is my gym, boxing buddies and trainers.
Just the thought that I can run across my ex along with his nuts-job wife makes me feel like throwing up.
The only thing which I would genuinely miss is my gym, boxing buddies and trainers.
Mr
Join Date: Mar 2016
Location: FRANCE
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So its byebye holiday season and in work this morning.
Suze (venus) you certainly had a year
MB I agree a move is always a good thing
Sao I wish they sold cream eggs in France (i miss them )
Good luck to all those heading to the gym
"what are some of your most wanted changes (inner or outward) for 2018?"
After eteranl sobriety, I want to be nicer to people, I mean everyone, in work, at home, people I dont know.
My wife is always on about happiness by making others happy, being happy that someone is happy etc being the greatest therapy of them all.
We all do it already inadvertently but what if we were to go out of our way to do it often. Isnt their a saying : the more you give the more you will have (or get back) Anyways this will be one of my changes.
Anyways enough blabbering.
V.
Suze (venus) you certainly had a year
MB I agree a move is always a good thing
Sao I wish they sold cream eggs in France (i miss them
)Good luck to all those heading to the gym
"what are some of your most wanted changes (inner or outward) for 2018?"
After eteranl sobriety, I want to be nicer to people, I mean everyone, in work, at home, people I dont know.
My wife is always on about happiness by making others happy, being happy that someone is happy etc being the greatest therapy of them all.
We all do it already inadvertently but what if we were to go out of our way to do it often. Isnt their a saying : the more you give the more you will have (or get back) Anyways this will be one of my changes.
Anyways enough blabbering.
V.
saoutchik
Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: London
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Morning everyone, I am sitting at my desk at work. Just before the end of last year my boss, the firm's proprietor said that this year might be his last year as his wife wants him to retire. I need to spend this year changing his mind.
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Originally Posted by MidnightBlue
I bet if some extraterrestrial civilization eventually finds us they will think: "This is one crazy planet".
"Look at that--they have to pay to live on their own planet."
That's the truly crazy thing.
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