Near the end of each month, pop in with next month's goals, reflect on your current monthly goals and harass others about what they did well and not so well in regards to their individual goals.
@Kloi I was a smoker way back in the 80s. Tried to quit numerous times using all kinds of silly games and ineffective rituals. What finally did it was realizing how tobacco company money was getting used against other interests of mine. Stopped cold turkey, carried pack of cigarettes in usual shirt pocket untouched for 2 whole days. Finally felt free and gave them away to co worker.
One vice I'm damn glad I rid myself of!!!
Continue basically only smoke on the weekend.
Continue working OT.
I won't clear it out this month, but i should be able to pay off 1/3 of my remaining debt. I'd be happy if I knock out 1/5 of it.
Been having stomach issues. Going to revert to fasting but keep all the fruits and veggies and seem if that brings me relief.
I have a side project of learning something, I'd like to play with it this month to see if it's something I'll contiue with.
Still haven't started journaling but I've consistently using my planner and I'd like to continue to do so.
Continue reading. Happy to say I finished my first book in 4+ years. I use to love reading.
Overall it was a good month for me. I'd like to make next month even better.
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For w.e reason I thought June had another day in it.
Continue to reduce my weed consumption.
For w.e reason I thought June had another day in it.
my weed consumption.
lol
For w.e reason I thought June had another day in it.
Don't sweat it. As long as you genuinely thought it was still pride month, whatever you did wasn't actually gay.
For w.e reason I thought June had another day in it.
Continue to reduce my weed consumption.
I've consistently been hitting 45hr/week. There really isn't a reason I shouldn't increase that to 50.
I'd also like to take a few days to go hiking. Have two locations in mind.
Actually use the planner I bought. Realistically I should fill it out tonight for what I know I have coming up.
Read more. Still haven't been doing that enough.
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Well fuck.
Doing pretty solid on everything except weed. Drastically cut back but still smoking a little too much, mainly this past week since I took a week off from the gym.
Did not journal once but I have been writing.
Me and the girl didn't finish the book but we've stuck pretty close to a few chapters a week.
Im going to say I failed on my monthly goals but just barely this time.
I think i need to write those up into a forum post tbh.
I'd probably read that.
After quitting hard drugs (which is a whole fucking other story)
And that. Been through heavy drug abuse myself.
TL;Dr of my life story
Started smoking weed in the middle school. Did really touch anything else until 20ish. Started drinking at bars at 21 and it all snowballed from there. Fast forward few good years then some really bad ones.
It all end getting caught up in a raid. Realizing I wouldn't sober up around the people I kept in my life. I took a pocket full of cash, boarded a plane, moving out West.
Was doing great for multiple years out there. Took care of my charges via zoom during covid. Moved back home for family a a years later. Then my dumb ass Reinvolved myself with all my old friends.
You know the ones I specifically left the state to get away from and sober up/leave our lifestyle behind. Basically repeating the last few years of my life up until the raid.
Coming up on 8 months sober outside of weed and I did the first six months free of that too. I'm now back to the point I was when I first moved home three years ago physical/mental/spiritual. Have an event better relationship with my family. And am killing it financially.
Typing this out made me realiz how close I came to being in the exact same situation that made me leave state the first time.
Among other things me and my ex split over this lifestyle. She hooked up with one of my guys. Instantly. Fast for three monts she got the house her and I had been living in for a few years raided for running her mouth drunk behind the bar, to undercover detectives.
Jesus fucking christ I dodged a fucking bullet.
/rant
Read MoreSo I started writing out a reply to this. I've had a few drinks, and it basically turned into my entire life story and my struggle with drugs and how it lead me to the red pill.
I'm not gonna make you read through all that shit, so I deleted it. I think i need to write those up into a forum post tbh.
But lets just say, I smoked weed everyday for 5+ years, I had my problems with hard drugs as well.
After quitting hard drugs (which is a whole fucking other story), I realized that all of the negative qualities I embodied (and fucking hated about myself) - lack of ambition, social anxiety, blue pill cuckery etc. Were caused by smoking weed.
I quit smoking weed and honestly, I've never looked back.
Sure, I occasionally smoke weed - but we're talking like once or twice a year, if that.
I know a lot of people will tell themselves that it's "not an issue" or all sorts of bullshit to justify to themselves why they dont really need to quit smoking weed. And sure, there's maybe that one guy in a million who can smoke weed and become the next steve jobs, but chances are that's not you.
And for the record - i have nothing against smoking weed, or the people who smoke it.
But what I can tell you is that smoking weed personally held me back, and since stopping my life has gone from strength to strength.
I've gone from being a fucking cucked loser to being a decent/high SMV male who has exceeded what I even thought was possible.
And my friends who kept smoking weed? Well, they still work minimum wage jobs and live with their parents at 30.
Read MoreI'm so much more ambitious
And this is exactly why I can not continue smokingm daily. Marijuana makes me too comfortable in compliancey to foster growth, smoking the way I smoke.
Am I done with pot for the rest of my life? No. I think it was McKenna who said something along the lines of, to get the most out of weed, abstain from it for as long as possible, then take the largest tolerable dose. Rinse and repeat.
When I was killing it on the West Coast, that's exactly how I used it. Once a month, roll up two fat woods and get uncomfortably high out in nature for half the day.
That's where I'd like my relationship with weed to get back to in the long run.
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