Good morning, afternoon and evening to all you wonderful admin 🤩🥰🤗 and all you wonderful members 🤩🥰🤗 new and old 🙏🏻💝
How is everyone today? How’s your week been? 🤔
Mines been fun to say the least 😬🙈 broken car 🚗 broken laptop 💻 😳 These things are enough to someone/me right down, I work from my laptop and drive for my work too!! 🤪😫 but I’ve actually 😱 kept my calm 🧘🏻 if I couldn’t think 🤔 I didn’t and when I could kept focused on what I could do and that I’ll work through it one way or another. 🙏🏻🤞🏻 and it’s working and I’ve felt ok, and I feel good getting through it. And that’s all on mindset, on previous quits, I would’ve picked up a cigarette! 🚬
It was hard managing my mindset early on in my quit so this was such a helpful tool 🔨 in my quit! 😅
I’d acknowledge that I felt challenged or feeling out of my depth, if I couldn’t think right there and then (which early days in my quit my brain forgot how to rationally think at all 🤪🤯🤨) I would reach out for my list of 10 things to do before picking up a cigarette 🚬 🚭( number 10 was go back to number 1 by the way) and I would chew gum frantically, put the timer on if it was a craving, scream in my pillow, call my quit buddy, post on quit support, I never got to number 10, but putting these stop gaps/distractions/coping mechanisms in meant it gave me time to come back to my rational thinking 🤔 😅 Them I would feel so good I got through it!! 💪🏻🙏🏻
That feeling good was definitely what I held on to too, it helped build my resilience that I knew I could get through each obstacle/craving/challenge. It’s so important to have your plan, to give you the tools to get through and feel it’s doable! Most people put off quitting because they think they ‘can’t’ do it. But thinking how you could do it is what’s gonna support and get you through. 💪🏻🙏🏻 and feel good about it without all the negative judgments we can put on ourselves. 🙏🏻💪🏻🥰🚭💝
Hope you all have a great feel Good Friday and don’t forget to focus on the good you do or can do! 🙏🏻🥰🤗💪🏻🚭💝😅
