The Philosophy of Quitting

Is there one particular quitting philosophy on which everyone can agree? Of course not. But there are a few things that those who have successfully quit have in common, in their quitting experience.

First of all, read the above again. Do you agree with the statement? If so, go ahead and think about what the variety of successful quitters might have in common.

One thing would be that each has some sort of idea about how they managed to quit, and most likely have an opinion about why they didn’t fail to quit as they had in previous attempts. This commonality to me falls under the category of “belief”. This is what the former smoker believes about how it was that they became a nonsmoker.

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Decorative Mirror

MickMirrorRecently Micky and I took the time to try out one of her mirror designs and we are very happy with how it turned out.

She cut and hand beveled a piece of 1/4″ mirror, a clipped corner rectangle approximately 16″ x 12″.

We removed the silver around the oval shape, added in the pattern, mounted it with adhesive and our own handmade clips to a wood backing board, and secured hanger hardware to the wood backer. We will definitely make more of these.

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Interesting…

DAY 5 ~ This again pertains to custom scheduling versus even-spacing. Here I am the very next day, three smokes in, on track, and in compliance with the even interval schedule – without needing to move any smoke dots. It seems that having raised awareness on the issue has made a huge difference. I also think that just being busier this morning has made achieving this… basically easy.

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