2017 - You Got This One Bite At A Time

2017 - You Got This!
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I quit smoking 16 years ago, the morning after our big annual Christmas party where I had chain smoked all night. I had a dream that night Son 3.0 was getting married and all the doors to the church were locked. I knocked and knocked. Someone finally opened the door and said, "You can't come in. You are dead." Never touched another. Cold turkey the morning I woke up after that horrible nightmare that seemed so real.

What got me through and still does with any difficult change or project is remembering something the late astronaut Dave Walker once told me - I quit smoking 32 years ago and not a day has gone by that I haven't wanted one. The thought and desire was there all the time at first but slowly it became less frequent. I still think about it at least once a day but I know it will pass. And I let it.

When eating an elephant take one bite at a time. - General Creighton Abrams, US Army

Change is not easy but you got this - one bite at a time. Watch the video below. Happy New Year!

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