The material presented
here is not Al-Anon Conference Approved Literature. It is a method
to exchange
information, ideas, feelings, problems and solutions on a personal
level.
mine are to keep doing what Ive been doing since mid Oct when I realized I needed help:
1) AlAnon meeting on Sat morn (thanks Megan for keeping me at it). They will be starting the steps and I'm planning on doing them w/them.
2) Keep attending weekly Mass
3) Keep doing at least 30mins of physical exercise every day. Some days I do WalkAwayThePounds 1/2hr DVD in the morn and end w/Curves 30mins after work.
Right up there at the top is to quit drinking so much coffee and pass up the cigarettes! All that stuff can give you as much jitters and cloudy thinking as if I were hung over!.....jaja
I am not going to stop smoking this year or lose weight. I am going to focus on myself and vow to continue learning how to be a better mother to my children. I am also going to take at least one class towards my degree this year.
Thanks for your post - it made me think of what my resolutions should and can be. I usually don't make them, since I try to do this stuff all year long, but your post makes me think of what things I want to focus on in the following year. They are: keep on exercising/walking, to clear my mind of all the clutter related to my recovering A and my OWN recovery with OCD; try to focus on ME and MY future goals, and to put these ideas into action; keep on working the steps, to finally get thru them at least once (lol); to make a decision to finally step outside the box and start a new career; and to be a blessing to everyone that I meet. I'm sure there are tons more things I could list, but these are a few of the things I could think of right now.
I am 54, have smoked since 15 (yikes dont do the math).
My sponsor is a wonderful person, in her eighties now, apparently, used to smoke (hard to picture her with a ciggie, but it is true). When I had a never ending cough, she said, talk to your doc, sometimes, when a doctor tells us, we can take in the information. Talked to doc, had a chest/lung Xray. Thankfully, no lumps or anything, but, suggestion is to have a spiro-something? where you blow in a tube - just in case breathing gets worse. What? Me?
Now, something terrible has happened. My sponsor's daughter (2 yrs younger than me), has lung cancer.
I cant keep taking my health for granted. Have made 2 appointments at Stop Smoking Clinic, cancelled them both. But, I am going to go and do it.... I know I can, have stopped for 3 month before, now, have to really, really go for it.
