Keep strong Geo. Life will always throw stuff at us; my goodness the problems I've had with old flames (and them with me to be fair!)
The point is not to find an excuse to gamble. That will just make things worse and what's the point of that?
Keep strong my friend. Remember what's at stake here.
Changemylife - and full respect to you my friend.
On 54 now and I'm going strong just been paid going on sat week. Had expensive day with car but it's nice I have money to pay for it not asking for help
Good Evening
Interesting to read of the idea of a third of us being successful. Hoping I'm in that third this time around . I always worry about when my next weakness will strike, usually as they say when least expected I guess.
Anyway I'll be on alert for that and hope I can continue fighting the urges when they come. As you say Mixer it is important to keep reminding ourselves of the destruction and misery gambling inevitably causes. I'm two weeks into quitting now and some days have been pretty easy as my mindset is clear that gambling is financially and emotionally putting me in a hell hole every time I tell myself I'll just have a small gamble. Ive proved I cannot gamble in a sensible way time and time again... This time it has to be different.
Checking in 157 Days GF. It is hard when life's getting me down and I want to cover myself in a gambling blanket, but that blanket brings no comfort, only misery. Gambling destroys lifes and we all know that .....Abstainer
Checking in on day 49 gf
Checking in on 39 days gf 🙂
** GURU CHALLENGE - 9th WEEKLY ROLLCALL! ***
It's Sunday 15th October – time for our rollcall!
Here we are once again. Let’s see how we’re all doing at the mid-way point of the month.
This week, my updates for you will simply state if you are RESTED, or RELAPSED (but ‘back in the saddle’) or ROCKING.
ROLLCALL OF HONOUR!
Hitting DOUBLE ELDER status is Degenerate – 200 days – fantastic result; hat’s off Degen! And step forward Antics – shashing through the 50 day mark. Half way to ELDER; good stuff!
NEW CHALLENGERS!
We welcome Tooshie (16 days), Ineffable (16 days too), Mitch91 (14 days), Slotfool (28 days), Paulll (11 days) ajnd HowDidIGetToThis (175 days) to the Challenge. Welcome aboard our Super Six!
STATS FOR NERDS
We have 2 GURUs, 5 ELDERs, 9 STRIVERs and 10 NEWBIEs on the Challenge – 26 in total. In addition, 2 members have been ‘rested’ from the Challenge. Raj has rejoined us – Yay!
Are you RESTED, RELAPSING or ROCKING…? Let’s find out!
Our GURUs
Phil72 – 614 days – ROCKING! Keeping it on track
Changemylife – 352 days – ROCKING! Showing us how it’s done
ELDERs
Degenerate – 201 days – ROCKING! Double ton up
HowDidIGetToThis – 175 days – ROCKING! An ELDER joins us
Abstainer – 157 days – ROCKING! Get well soon, my friend!
ItMatters – 135 days – ROCKING! Cruising without complacency
Sars27 – 135 days - ROCKING! Livin’ the dream!
STRIVERs
RubyBaby – 79 days – ROCKING! Doing great Rubybaby
Mixer – 65 days – ROCKING! Quiet (!) determination …
Raj – 57 days – ROCKING! Back in the fold; welcome back
Amt722 – 59 – ROCKING! and rolling… fantastic.
Antics – 56 – ROCKING! Great single minded approach
Christer1 - 54 days - ROCKING! And at last formally part of the challenge, apologies for my admin error leaving you off before! (Link to your dairy to follow)
Chartom3 – 42 – ROCKING! Ready for bullseye tomorrow
4D – 39 – ROCKING! Following good steps!
Athena1991 38 – ROCKING! It’s because you care about you and yours 🙂
NEWBIES
Slotfool - 28 days - ROCKING! – Keep strong, and stronger!
Adam808 – 19 days – ROCKING! Excellent progress
Xenedra – 18 days – ROCKING! Meaning it, this time
Ineffable - 16 days too - ROCKING! – Hit STRIVER, Ok?
Geo – 15 days – ROCKING! Don’t let distractions give you an excuse
Boxingdayfresh – 14 days – ROCKING! Good, good.. half way to STRIVER
Tooshie - 14 days – ROCKING! – Show us you mean this
Mitch91 - 14 days - ROCKING! – Prove you mean this
Paulll - 11 days - ROCKING! Reaching STRIVER will prove your intentions
Helpless (Previously ‘Next Steps’) - 5 days – RELAPSED Make sure you put EXTRA blockers and support measures in place, my friend. Let’s break the cycle!
RESTING
No-one rested this week!
So… we’re all pretty much ROCKING! Although… I’m not that surprised to be honest if you’re a NEWBIE because you may well be skint anyway – it is mid-month, after all. When ‘payday’ comes along in the next couple of weeks, let’s see if you can keep ROCKING! It truly is the only way. Keep getting that support and put those blocks in place...!
FINAL THOUGHT.
Sometimes we don't appr eciate, despite all of the troubles life can bring, how lucky we are to have even been born. Are we really going to waste our 'golden ticket' of life gambling it all away? We're better than that. Take a look at this. http://www.stevezervos.com/birth-lottery.htm
Let’s keep strong; keep sharing and keep strong!
Mixer and Athena, your hosts for this challenge
Cheers for the update mixer ! Awesome rollcall 🙂 checking in 135 day so GF:)
Hi All
Thanks for the update mixer - another day gf and im absolutely flying! no compulsions to gamble and am enjoying my gf life! i hope everyone is well and having a good weekend. I am enjoying a shopping trip in the middle of month, which i havent been able to do for a long time due to spending all my money in the first few days following payday on gambling.
Athena
Mixer have I upset u I'm a St river aren't i
Hi Christer1, nah, you've not upset me; for some reason, you've not been part of the Challenge. My bad, and I've made up for it (well, give me 10 mins!)
You are indeed a Striver and doing bloody well mate 🙂
Day 16 check in, I am keeping at it. Thank you Mixer. I am keeping things in perspective. I can't afford to go back to gamble. The pain and hurt is far too much than anything so for now one day at a time.
Afternoon all..
15 Days GF now, starting to feel a lot better than i did. things seem to be getting better with life at home too.
I am officially a newbie. On Saturday I gambled for the first time in 26 days. I feel like c**P at the moment. Hoping i can again find some motivation to get the ball rolling again.
Sorry I felt I was doing the challenge it's helping spur me on
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