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Mark4; Take 2
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Topic Started: Mar 11 2014, 04:27 PM (2,885 Views)
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hobo924
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Jan 21 2015, 02:23 PM
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Day 98. Perhaps the most bizarre thing about my quit journey is about 2 weeks ago, I began to see that my life was going to change by Friday, January 23. Thats because things would be upon me that would force my permanent exit from business and I'd be forced to "go get a job". Getting a job would involve putting my company and me personally into bankruptcy - the final straw or loss I have been fighting. There were several rather big things that would need to take place to avoid that fate and for me to relaunch the business, some so big I simply do not control them, so it was just a matter of time to see, and that time runs out this week.
Since I last posted I've been back in the ER for even more drama and have yet another surgery tomorrow. I look in the mirror and think, if I didn't have bad luck, I wouldn't have any luck at all! I feared that being drugged out on pain meds AGAIN was going to kill any chance of me rebuilding the business and the unwanted defaulting was all but inevitable. I even looked sadly at my approaching 100 days as the only good thing left that I had going.
So these past 2 weeks I've been watching as amazing things have happened. It turns out tomorrow's surgery will actually be the end to this medical mess FINALLY. It will be O.V.E.R. And I am starting to see some of those big things happen and come to life. It's hard to say or believe, but I am now feverishly preparing to relaunch my company with a new investor and some great new potential. Could this really all be wrapping up at the same time, at 100 days? I understand quitting is a lifelong thing, and so is the rest of the my life, but I'm curious to see if this particular journey does come to a head at the time I hit HoF. Talk about coincidences...
I'll NEVER forget these 100 days. Congrats Mark. Thoughts and prayers are with you and your family for all the things you mentioned.
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LA Kevin
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Jan 21 2015, 02:35 PM
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- Jan 21 2015, 10:03 AM
Day 98. Perhaps the most bizarre thing about my quit journey is about 2 weeks ago, I began to see that my life was going to change by Friday, January 23. Thats because things would be upon me that would force my permanent exit from business and I'd be forced to "go get a job". Getting a job would involve putting my company and me personally into bankruptcy - the final straw or loss I have been fighting. There were several rather big things that would need to take place to avoid that fate and for me to relaunch the business, some so big I simply do not control them, so it was just a matter of time to see, and that time runs out this week.
Since I last posted I've been back in the ER for even more drama and have yet another surgery tomorrow. I look in the mirror and think, if I didn't have bad luck, I wouldn't have any luck at all! I feared that being drugged out on pain meds AGAIN was going to kill any chance of me rebuilding the business and the unwanted defaulting was all but inevitable. I even looked sadly at my approaching 100 days as the only good thing left that I had going.
So these past 2 weeks I've been watching as amazing things have happened. It turns out tomorrow's surgery will actually be the end to this medical mess FINALLY. It will be O.V.E.R. And I am starting to see some of those big things happen and come to life. It's hard to say or believe, but I am now feverishly preparing to relaunch my company with a new investor and some great new potential. Could this really all be wrapping up at the same time, at 100 days? I understand quitting is a lifelong thing, and so is the rest of the my life, but I'm curious to see if this particular journey does come to a head at the time I hit HoF. Talk about coincidences...
I'll NEVER forget these 100 days.
Congrats Mark. Thoughts and prayers are with you and your family for all the things you mentioned. This is all fantastic news. In addition to KTC, I have been attending some Nicotine Anonymous meetings. I find the combination of the two very helpful as the two represent different approaches so I take some from both groups. But I will tell you that sometimes there are speakers that come to the NA meetings and they tell stories like the one you're telling. There's a spiritual component to NA and there's a sense among those that are long-timers that there's this thing going on with God that if you take care of your business and do the things you're supposed to be doing, good things just happen. It's like no one can draw a straight line between quitting nicotine and these blessings but there's also no doubting that they are connected.
I'm actually unemployed right now and that's a big reason why I chose now to quit. Most of the times I've quit in the past have ended because of some work-related stress. So, I decided that THIS was going to be the time and I was going to concentrate on finally quitting this shit for good. The job search has been tough. Sitting in front of a computer is one of those times when I would always have a dip in so I'm trying to minimize that time. But being unemployed also means that I can go to the gym every day for as long as I need to keep from putting on the pounds that usually come with quitting. So, basically I'm quitting full-time and my job search is suffering a bit but that's OK for now. As I hear each week at the NA meetings, just take care of the things you can control and take it one day at a time and good things will come. Your story is more evidence of that.
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Jan 21 2015, 04:29 PM
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- hobo924
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- Mark4
- Jan 21 2015, 10:03 AM
Day 98. Perhaps the most bizarre thing about my quit journey is about 2 weeks ago, I began to see that my life was going to change by Friday, January 23. Thats because things would be upon me that would force my permanent exit from business and I'd be forced to "go get a job". Getting a job would involve putting my company and me personally into bankruptcy - the final straw or loss I have been fighting. There were several rather big things that would need to take place to avoid that fate and for me to relaunch the business, some so big I simply do not control them, so it was just a matter of time to see, and that time runs out this week.
Since I last posted I've been back in the ER for even more drama and have yet another surgery tomorrow. I look in the mirror and think, if I didn't have bad luck, I wouldn't have any luck at all! I feared that being drugged out on pain meds AGAIN was going to kill any chance of me rebuilding the business and the unwanted defaulting was all but inevitable. I even looked sadly at my approaching 100 days as the only good thing left that I had going.
So these past 2 weeks I've been watching as amazing things have happened. It turns out tomorrow's surgery will actually be the end to this medical mess FINALLY. It will be O.V.E.R. And I am starting to see some of those big things happen and come to life. It's hard to say or believe, but I am now feverishly preparing to relaunch my company with a new investor and some great new potential. Could this really all be wrapping up at the same time, at 100 days? I understand quitting is a lifelong thing, and so is the rest of the my life, but I'm curious to see if this particular journey does come to a head at the time I hit HoF. Talk about coincidences...
I'll NEVER forget these 100 days.
Congrats Mark. Thoughts and prayers are with you and your family for all the things you mentioned.
This is all fantastic news. In addition to KTC, I have been attending some Nicotine Anonymous meetings. I find the combination of the two very helpful as the two represent different approaches so I take some from both groups. But I will tell you that sometimes there are speakers that come to the NA meetings and they tell stories like the one you're telling. There's a spiritual component to NA and there's a sense among those that are long-timers that there's this thing going on with God that if you take care of your business and do the things you're supposed to be doing, good things just happen. It's like no one can draw a straight line between quitting nicotine and these blessings but there's also no doubting that they are connected. I'm actually unemployed right now and that's a big reason why I chose now to quit. Most of the times I've quit in the past have ended because of some work-related stress. So, I decided that THIS was going to be the time and I was going to concentrate on finally quitting this shit for good. The job search has been tough. Sitting in front of a computer is one of those times when I would always have a dip in so I'm trying to minimize that time. But being unemployed also means that I can go to the gym every day for as long as I need to keep from putting on the pounds that usually come with quitting. So, basically I'm quitting full-time and my job search is suffering a bit but that's OK for now. As I hear each week at the NA meetings, just take care of the things you can control and take it one day at a time and good things will come. Your story is more evidence of that. LA Kevin,
Thanks for your kind words. I am careful about tying my spirituality with quitting because there are plenty of people here who are amazing and powerful quitters and for them, God had nothing to do with it. But as a believer in Jesus Christ, I KNOW he is involved in all parts of my life, including this quit. If you scroll all the way back to my less than spectacular start here, I say that I came here because I felt like I was being called to quit by God, and I was looking for tools to quit. I am not a health-n-wealth gospel kinda guy, but I do know the Bible clearly says we are to be obedient and that he may use the crap in this world to get our attention. Why would he call me to this? Because my body is his temple, he lives in us, and I'm shoving cat turds in it all day!
These 100 days have been brutal, not just the quit, everything. Understanding the HOF is just a milestone, I am getting curious and starting to see that there are all kinds of changes going on in me. Maybe he let life slap the living hell out of me to get me to the place I could quit, and change. I'd do the same for my daughters if they were doing something destructive to themselves. It jarred me. And its changed me. Dipping this crap affects SO much more than just us, it steals from our marriages and families, it robs money, it makes us loners, it makes us liars and utterly selfish. So maybe, and I don't dare to presume to know what God does and why, but I'm getting really suspicious that as I approach this milestone, that his larger plan is coming into view, and my business woes are ending. Please know, I do not think life gets easy after this, this is just a step in obedience for me and a huge demonstration of how much God loved us first, even with cat turds ruining our lives.
I encourage you in this effort, its not for the pansies! But it is SO worth it. Nic (and in my perspective, it is satan) is whispering that you can put this quit off till things get better, just know its a damn lie. Its nothing but an excuse to keep you owned by a little can. God may or may not restore my business, he may or may not land you in a great job tomorrow, thats up to him, we are just to be obedient. But as you say, when we are obedient, its odd how things do seem to change.
But even if I was all wrong, if you stick with it and you GAIN all those things I mentioned we already lost to nic. Its a win-win! I hope to come back about Day 110 and say, the business is booming and I'm still QLF! But even if its not, I'll be QLF!
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Jan 21 2015, 09:36 PM
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- LA Kevin
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- hobo924
- Jan 21 2015, 02:23 PM
- Mark4
- Jan 21 2015, 10:03 AM
Day 98. Perhaps the most bizarre thing about my quit journey is about 2 weeks ago, I began to see that my life was going to change by Friday, January 23. Thats because things would be upon me that would force my permanent exit from business and I'd be forced to "go get a job". Getting a job would involve putting my company and me personally into bankruptcy - the final straw or loss I have been fighting. There were several rather big things that would need to take place to avoid that fate and for me to relaunch the business, some so big I simply do not control them, so it was just a matter of time to see, and that time runs out this week.
Since I last posted I've been back in the ER for even more drama and have yet another surgery tomorrow. I look in the mirror and think, if I didn't have bad luck, I wouldn't have any luck at all! I feared that being drugged out on pain meds AGAIN was going to kill any chance of me rebuilding the business and the unwanted defaulting was all but inevitable. I even looked sadly at my approaching 100 days as the only good thing left that I had going.
So these past 2 weeks I've been watching as amazing things have happened. It turns out tomorrow's surgery will actually be the end to this medical mess FINALLY. It will be O.V.E.R. And I am starting to see some of those big things happen and come to life. It's hard to say or believe, but I am now feverishly preparing to relaunch my company with a new investor and some great new potential. Could this really all be wrapping up at the same time, at 100 days? I understand quitting is a lifelong thing, and so is the rest of the my life, but I'm curious to see if this particular journey does come to a head at the time I hit HoF. Talk about coincidences...
I'll NEVER forget these 100 days.
Congrats Mark. Thoughts and prayers are with you and your family for all the things you mentioned.
This is all fantastic news. In addition to KTC, I have been attending some Nicotine Anonymous meetings. I find the combination of the two very helpful as the two represent different approaches so I take some from both groups. But I will tell you that sometimes there are speakers that come to the NA meetings and they tell stories like the one you're telling. There's a spiritual component to NA and there's a sense among those that are long-timers that there's this thing going on with God that if you take care of your business and do the things you're supposed to be doing, good things just happen. It's like no one can draw a straight line between quitting nicotine and these blessings but there's also no doubting that they are connected. I'm actually unemployed right now and that's a big reason why I chose now to quit. Most of the times I've quit in the past have ended because of some work-related stress. So, I decided that THIS was going to be the time and I was going to concentrate on finally quitting this shit for good. The job search has been tough. Sitting in front of a computer is one of those times when I would always have a dip in so I'm trying to minimize that time. But being unemployed also means that I can go to the gym every day for as long as I need to keep from putting on the pounds that usually come with quitting. So, basically I'm quitting full-time and my job search is suffering a bit but that's OK for now. As I hear each week at the NA meetings, just take care of the things you can control and take it one day at a time and good things will come. Your story is more evidence of that.
LA Kevin, Thanks for your kind words. I am careful about tying my spirituality with quitting because there are plenty of people here who are amazing and powerful quitters and for them, God had nothing to do with it. But as a believer in Jesus Christ, I KNOW he is involved in all parts of my life, including this quit. If you scroll all the way back to my less than spectacular start here, I say that I came here because I felt like I was being called to quit by God, and I was looking for tools to quit. I am not a health-n-wealth gospel kinda guy, but I do know the Bible clearly says we are to be obedient and that he may use the crap in this world to get our attention. Why would he call me to this? Because my body is his temple, he lives in us, and I'm shoving cat turds in it all day! These 100 days have been brutal, not just the quit, everything. Understanding the HOF is just a milestone, I am getting curious and starting to see that there are all kinds of changes going on in me. Maybe he let life slap the living hell out of me to get me to the place I could quit, and change. I'd do the same for my daughters if they were doing something destructive to themselves. It jarred me. And its changed me. Dipping this crap affects SO much more than just us, it steals from our marriages and families, it robs money, it makes us loners, it makes us liars and utterly selfish. So maybe, and I don't dare to presume to know what God does and why, but I'm getting really suspicious that as I approach this milestone, that his larger plan is coming into view, and my business woes are ending. Please know, I do not think life gets easy after this, this is just a step in obedience for me and a huge demonstration of how much God loved us first, even with cat turds ruining our lives. I encourage you in this effort, its not for the pansies! But it is SO worth it. Nic (and in my perspective, it is satan) is whispering that you can put this quit off till things get better, just know its a damn lie. Its nothing but an excuse to keep you owned by a little can. God may or may not restore my business, he may or may not land you in a great job tomorrow, thats up to him, we are just to be obedient. But as you say, when we are obedient, its odd how things do seem to change. But even if I was all wrong, if you stick with it and you GAIN all those things I mentioned we already lost to nic. Its a win-win! I hope to come back about Day 110 and say, the business is booming and I'm still QLF! But even if its not, I'll be QLF! First off, congratulations on 98 days quit. That's a huge accomplishment. With that said, please, think about the magnitude of 98 days, the pain you have endured to achieve that, and how much it would suck to start off on day 1. Why do I want you to reflect on this, because what you have written in your original post has me concerned. Very concerned.
You write, "I understand quitting is a lifelong thing, and so is the rest of the my life, but I'm curious to see if this particular journey does come to a head at the time I hit HoF."
Maybe this is purely a misinterpretation on my part because you later write that no matter the outcome of your business scenario you are QLF. None-the-less, think about that last statement. You've been here long enough to know that the HOF, or 100-day mark, is simply another day. A milestone, yes...and a great milestone, but it's another day. Some may think of it as the beginning. After 100 days you have now learned how to quit and be quit. Now it's up to you to foster that quit and take it to another level, that being a place you can maintain that quit every day. I'm sure you have seen what happens when people stop posting roll, stop maintaining a degree of activeness, and basically become complacent. This leads to vulnerability. Do not lets this become you; it's time to take it to the next level.
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Mark4
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Jan 22 2015, 01:50 PM
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- hobo924
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- Mark4
- Jan 21 2015, 10:03 AM
Day 98. Perhaps the most bizarre thing about my quit journey is about 2 weeks ago, I began to see that my life was going to change by Friday, January 23. Thats because things would be upon me that would force my permanent exit from business and I'd be forced to "go get a job". Getting a job would involve putting my company and me personally into bankruptcy - the final straw or loss I have been fighting. There were several rather big things that would need to take place to avoid that fate and for me to relaunch the business, some so big I simply do not control them, so it was just a matter of time to see, and that time runs out this week.
Since I last posted I've been back in the ER for even more drama and have yet another surgery tomorrow. I look in the mirror and think, if I didn't have bad luck, I wouldn't have any luck at all! I feared that being drugged out on pain meds AGAIN was going to kill any chance of me rebuilding the business and the unwanted defaulting was all but inevitable. I even looked sadly at my approaching 100 days as the only good thing left that I had going.
So these past 2 weeks I've been watching as amazing things have happened. It turns out tomorrow's surgery will actually be the end to this medical mess FINALLY. It will be O.V.E.R. And I am starting to see some of those big things happen and come to life. It's hard to say or believe, but I am now feverishly preparing to relaunch my company with a new investor and some great new potential. Could this really all be wrapping up at the same time, at 100 days? I understand quitting is a lifelong thing, and so is the rest of the my life, but I'm curious to see if this particular journey does come to a head at the time I hit HoF. Talk about coincidences...
I'll NEVER forget these 100 days.
Congrats Mark. Thoughts and prayers are with you and your family for all the things you mentioned.
This is all fantastic news. In addition to KTC, I have been attending some Nicotine Anonymous meetings. I find the combination of the two very helpful as the two represent different approaches so I take some from both groups. But I will tell you that sometimes there are speakers that come to the NA meetings and they tell stories like the one you're telling. There's a spiritual component to NA and there's a sense among those that are long-timers that there's this thing going on with God that if you take care of your business and do the things you're supposed to be doing, good things just happen. It's like no one can draw a straight line between quitting nicotine and these blessings but there's also no doubting that they are connected. I'm actually unemployed right now and that's a big reason why I chose now to quit. Most of the times I've quit in the past have ended because of some work-related stress. So, I decided that THIS was going to be the time and I was going to concentrate on finally quitting this shit for good. The job search has been tough. Sitting in front of a computer is one of those times when I would always have a dip in so I'm trying to minimize that time. But being unemployed also means that I can go to the gym every day for as long as I need to keep from putting on the pounds that usually come with quitting. So, basically I'm quitting full-time and my job search is suffering a bit but that's OK for now. As I hear each week at the NA meetings, just take care of the things you can control and take it one day at a time and good things will come. Your story is more evidence of that.
LA Kevin, Thanks for your kind words. I am careful about tying my spirituality with quitting because there are plenty of people here who are amazing and powerful quitters and for them, God had nothing to do with it. But as a believer in Jesus Christ, I KNOW he is involved in all parts of my life, including this quit. If you scroll all the way back to my less than spectacular start here, I say that I came here because I felt like I was being called to quit by God, and I was looking for tools to quit. I am not a health-n-wealth gospel kinda guy, but I do know the Bible clearly says we are to be obedient and that he may use the crap in this world to get our attention. Why would he call me to this? Because my body is his temple, he lives in us, and I'm shoving cat turds in it all day! These 100 days have been brutal, not just the quit, everything. Understanding the HOF is just a milestone, I am getting curious and starting to see that there are all kinds of changes going on in me. Maybe he let life slap the living hell out of me to get me to the place I could quit, and change. I'd do the same for my daughters if they were doing something destructive to themselves. It jarred me. And its changed me. Dipping this crap affects SO much more than just us, it steals from our marriages and families, it robs money, it makes us loners, it makes us liars and utterly selfish. So maybe, and I don't dare to presume to know what God does and why, but I'm getting really suspicious that as I approach this milestone, that his larger plan is coming into view, and my business woes are ending. Please know, I do not think life gets easy after this, this is just a step in obedience for me and a huge demonstration of how much God loved us first, even with cat turds ruining our lives. I encourage you in this effort, its not for the pansies! But it is SO worth it. Nic (and in my perspective, it is satan) is whispering that you can put this quit off till things get better, just know its a damn lie. Its nothing but an excuse to keep you owned by a little can. God may or may not restore my business, he may or may not land you in a great job tomorrow, thats up to him, we are just to be obedient. But as you say, when we are obedient, its odd how things do seem to change. But even if I was all wrong, if you stick with it and you GAIN all those things I mentioned we already lost to nic. Its a win-win! I hope to come back about Day 110 and say, the business is booming and I'm still QLF! But even if its not, I'll be QLF!
First off, congratulations on 98 days quit. That's a huge accomplishment. With that said, please, think about the magnitude of 98 days, the pain you have endured to achieve that, and how much it would suck to start off on day 1. Why do I want you to reflect on this, because what you have written in your original post has me concerned. Very concerned. You write, "I understand quitting is a lifelong thing, and so is the rest of the my life, but I'm curious to see if this particular journey does come to a head at the time I hit HoF." Maybe this is purely a misinterpretation on my part because you later write that no matter the outcome of your business scenario you are QLF. None-the-less, think about that last statement. You've been here long enough to know that the HOF, or 100-day mark, is simply another day. A milestone, yes...and a great milestone, but it's another day. Some may think of it as the beginning. After 100 days you have now learned how to quit and be quit. Now it's up to you to foster that quit and take it to another level, that being a place you can maintain that quit every day. I'm sure you have seen what happens when people stop posting roll, stop maintaining a degree of activeness, and basically become complacent. This leads to vulnerability. Do not lets this become you; it's time to take it to the next level. Wow man, I see what you are saying and that does look bad! Yes it is a misinterpretation. The ONLY that might coming to an end is this personal financial drama, the quit rages on and on!
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Jan 23 2015, 08:45 PM
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Day 100! Nothing to say but couldn't let this day slip by without a note! Finally on that train! Now its time to work on that 101 tomorrow.
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Jan 23 2015, 10:16 PM
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congrats dude
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Jan 23 2015, 10:43 PM
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Congrats Mark! A job well begun!
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Jan 24 2015, 09:29 AM
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Congrats Mark! A job well begun! Indeed - set up a dual challenge for you and another quitter. About a yr ahead of you on the whole closing my company and can tell you ...... ...YOU'RE HERE FOR A PURPOSE
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Jan 24 2015, 11:45 AM
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Where all da white women at?
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Congrats Mark! A job well begun!
Indeed - set up a dual challenge for you and another quitter. About a yr ahead of you on the whole closing my company and can tell you ...... ...YOU'RE HERE FOR A PURPOSE Mark - man, I'm so proud of you. I don't mean that condescendingly, but with admiration. You've endured as much as a guy could take during these first hundred days, and you still kept fighting, kept at it. You leaned on us and you were there for others to lean on you. I'm proud to call you my quit brother and I'm proud to point to you as an example of quit to others.
One other thing, regardless of whether or not this business of yours succeeds - the most important thing you've gained throughout this time is the honor, honesty, integrity and respect from your family - your wife being the most important in all of that, followed closely by your daughters. You made a statement that you were willing to "die" for them, in this case, dying to yourself and living the life God has given you....being the man God made you to be. There is absolutely nothing better you can attain in this world than that. You are a man of honor Mark. I hope you really soak that up today and hang onto that with everything you've got.
I want to give you caution now too. Day 100-200 seemed to really suck for most of us. I don't know what it was, whether it was the let down after the HOF or what, but I'm encouraging you to make sure you stay connected even more than ever for awhile. You've got a lot going on, and lean on us. A cord of three strings is not easily broken.
Sincerely, Noel (Bronc)
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"This is not a try and try again system." ~ Duathman “Until you want to quit as badly as you wanted to breathe, you’ll never be successful. It has to be the single most important thing in your life to the exclusion of all other distractions. When you can achieve that, you will not only be quit, you will remain quit.” “If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.” - Ivan Turgenev
Quit Date: 3/14/2014 HOF Group: June 2014 Quitters I've met in person: BBJ, AppleJacks, BretLees, Zeno, ZillahCowboy, Sixer, SirDerek, 2mch2lv4, Mike McCarmo44, Luby, Rocketman, Keddy, dforbes, kdip, theo3wood, Sporticus, MonsterEMT, Sam83, BaitBanjo, Boelker63, Scowick, Hydro, LancefromSD, BigWhiteBeast, Chewie, TCope, MN_Ben, RC, Cbird, TXTaco1, QuitSpit, Cavman, BTDogboy, CLampy, ChrisTKE, Basshaug, THansen, Greenspidey, Cmark, 30YrAddict, Wastepanel, E&CsDad, Franpro Introduction:
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pab1964
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Jan 24 2015, 12:21 PM
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Proud member of 2015 April Silverbacks!
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Stay strong my brother in Christ! Sometimes we forget what's number 1 in our life get slapped around for a little reminder! Proud to be quit with you my brother! Keep the faith God takes care of his own! He will never put more on us than we can bare!
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ROLL TIDE ROLL! God, Family and crappie fishing! I will always be an addict, but hopefully never a slave again!
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