next tuesday it'll be 365th day without a cigarette for me. that's a whole year! i think it should be a special day for me. one year of freedom. i was considering making it an s-day, but quite frankly i think too many s-days could help me loose a bit of discipline. i don't know how big that bit would be, so i'm worried. you see, there is a national holiday in my country first of november (thursday this year) than there is a weekend. that there is this tuesday 5. november. next holiday is 17. november. i think i'll have chance (we all will) for something similar at x-mas following right after the weekend this year. and in my country we have 16 days of national holiday every year anyway. plus birthday. plus something we call a nameday. see, every day there is some name in the calendar. when yours comes up, it's your nameday. it's like a little birthday. altogether it comes up to 18 days! yes som of them fall on weekends, but still...
so in this circumstances, should quitting smoking be so special? would YOU make it an s-day? where is the line for you?
sorry, correction: should i make next tuesday my s-day?
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Good grief, YES!! Make it an S-Day. That's the beauty of the program -- you get to decide!
"That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do. Not that the nature of the thing itself has changed but our power to do it is increased." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"You are what you eat -- so don't be Fast, Easy, Cheap or Fake."
"You are what you eat -- so don't be Fast, Easy, Cheap or Fake."
Other options...
1) Find non-food ways to make it special. Go get a massage, plan time with friends or an activity you don't normally get to do, go shopping... whatever is an indulgence to you.
2) Indulge in what I've started calling "N-day treats" - foods that totally fit the N perspective, but are still "special." The extra-good steak that you don't normally buy, home-made bread, favorite expensive fruit (raspberries!), that kind of thing.
(And CONGRATS on a major positive life change!!)
1) Find non-food ways to make it special. Go get a massage, plan time with friends or an activity you don't normally get to do, go shopping... whatever is an indulgence to you.
2) Indulge in what I've started calling "N-day treats" - foods that totally fit the N perspective, but are still "special." The extra-good steak that you don't normally buy, home-made bread, favorite expensive fruit (raspberries!), that kind of thing.
(And CONGRATS on a major positive life change!!)
i quite liked the idea of some other way to make it special. other than food. however, when i started to think about it, i found out i couldn't think of anything. (un)fortunatelly, i'm a very happy person who hates shopping, and i have everything i need. not that i'm so rich, it's just that i don't really want much. the only thing that i want and don't have would have to be my own flat, but i couldn't go buy that, clearly:) as i said, though. i liked the idea and if i manage another year, i'll definitelly do something like that. like buy something nice, or go somewhere even nicer. for this year i just had some ice-cream which made it an s-day for me....and made me happy. and s-day it should be also in the future.