Hello Matt. Thankyou for posting on my diary and thankyou for being such an inspiration to myself and others.
Wishing you peace and contentment with fun and good adventures, as you celebrate over christmas and the new year.
Look forward to sharing the journey with you in 2018...stephen
Hi Matt ,
Wishing you a very merry Christmas and a GF 2018 🙂
Sars
Matt I hope you've had an awesome festive season, thanks for your inspiration and encouragement. Wishing you lots of happiness in 2018 Sx
DAY 456
Appreciate your words Sharon/Stephen and Sars. I didn't find much time over the festive period to get on here but I had a really good Xmas and New Year. So So So different to the pain/torment and shame I felt last year. I spent time with the important people in my life and created some good memories and got some great pictures to boot.
I am back at work and it certainly all went very quickly but I really feel like the corner is turned in my life and the future is really something to be excited about.
This day last year I wrote the below.....
Day 91. Spent yesterday evening with my family, they were both so poorly with a sickness bug that my ex asked me to be there for her and her daughter. I spent most of it mopping up sick and comforting them. Really tragic feeling, realising how much I adore them. I have so much love to give them.
Another day gamble free, I'm changing and evolving everyday as a person. A guy I truly like and he is here to stay. Who knows what the future holds but as this guy I know it can only be positive.
It appears that guy is still here and thriving and building on his potential.
Take care all.
Matt
Matt. I've enjoyed reading your diary which is so uplifting and inspirational. You've come such a long way in a relatively short time. You have taken the bull by the horns and improved every aspect of your life. Great that you have been to Norway for an incredible experience. What's next on your bucket list?
Hi Changemylife.
Thanks for your comments, they really help me knowing others can take some hope form my journey.
Bucket list has plenty on it. This year I hope to knock a couple more off so stay posted :-). I have some achieveable ones in the pipeline and one quite far out there one which I hope I can do!
I hope everyone can stay GF. It is the only way to guarantee that life we all wish for and deserve.
Matt
Day 465
So a full Year ago I hit day 100. I wrote the below and how right I was!
Matt 24 wrote:
Day 100 begins. Thanks all for your kind words.
Hard to see it as an achievement but what it does do is guarantee a more positive future for me. Today I will not gamble!
Stay strong all.
Matt
Just devoted a couple of hours of my life reading the back catalogue of yours ! Inspiring stuff something I needed to read . I’m Day 18 into this and will hold onto a lot of the things you have said . Thanks again for going through all of this so that some people don’t have to
Hi Vulture,
Long read these days! Outpourings of emnotional posts on here did help me in my recovery.
I hope you can find yourself in a similar place in the months to come.
Matt
Hope you have a great weekend . Will follow your story with interest now I have invested so much time in it !!
day 470
Had a nice weekend. Chilled out Friday, Saturday went for a long walk along some beautiful countryside near where I live, really appreciating the small things in life now.
Sunday morning I took my niece to the cinema, which is always fun. Then when I got home my brother broke the news that my ex has got engaged! She don't hang around and helps to highlight exactly what a lucky escape I have had! Painting herself into someone elses life financially! I do hope for her daughter's sake it is the real deal for them though.
A lot happens in a year I am proof of that 🙂
Stay strong, stay gamble free and the path will clear for us all.
Matt
Blimey day 470 time is speeding by! Lucky escape is an understatement non? But as always your thoughtfulness shines through referring her daughter. Matt you deserve every happiness and here's to a prosperous 2018, take care S 🙂
Hi Matt,
Just read and your diary and a big congratulations for what you have achieved my friend, your diary is truly an inspiration for many of us. I love to read about the journey people have been through and how they have managed to turn thier lives around, i hope i will be able to do the same in 365 days read back my diary and feel proud of myself, i only have 6 days under my belt but am taking it one day at a time,
Keep up the good work mate and never get complacent as that is when we are most at risk from this horrible addiction as i know from my own experience.
Harry.
Day 476
Had a good weekend. My house really getting my stamp on it now. I have a juke box going on and my brother came down at the weekend to put up a beautiful cork board map of the world in my dining room. It is both decorative and inspiring. I have loads of pins in it already of where I have been lucky enough to travel in the world and looking forward to getting lots more on it as I see the world and go through life.
Really proud of where I am now and cannot wait to get my teeth into the future.
Stay strong, stay gamble free and we can all turn that corner onto a better path.
Matt
Hey bro, I’m also proud of where you are now , I mean when I started my journey I used your story to realise how much more potential I have to recover . You’ve also been my inspiration here ! Keep up the good work . ODAAT 🙂
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