okay, i'm just checking out. hope to be able to post sometime that things are going well. Hatzlacha to all!

We are lookin' forward to your sporadic postin's....

b'hatzlachah

hi everyone! just checking in. since my last post i did fall twice in the beginning, but since then B"H i've managed to stay clean! this is my longest clean streak in a while! with much thanks to all the chevra here and of course through Hashems loving hand that guides us all. May you all have a chag kasher v'sameach

WOW! Incredible!!!!!!!!!!!!! Keeep it up!

What steps have you taken? How have you done it?

if you've been following my thread, you'll see that i currently don't have internet access often, so it's much easier. of course, when i do have access, i can get major attacks. i find it helpful to log on and post something, or even better, to chat with someone. once i don't feel that i'm alone, i have a much easier time.

Likewise! Staying connected to others on this forum helps me tremendously! If all i did was post my own posts, dayeinu.

unfortunately, i just fell the last 2 days. i just joined the 90 days chart.
here's a link.
guardyoureyes.com/forum/4-On-the-Way-to-90-Days/241316-90-is-a-big-number-but-with-time-will-get-smaller

Don't despair and become depressed! Ot may feel like an impossible task, and i can totally relate to feeling the tug of the yetzer hara to go look at stuff and act out. But we gotta take it one day, one moment at a time. You can do it! Brush yourself off and KOMT

Hey,
I think joining the 90-day chart will help out in staying clean, i know it has for me. Good luck and please keep posting

Is it October 14th today...

october 14th 2014....

Then again, I didn't stick around here long enough two years ago to learn what it really takes to succeed. Last week I started reading the dov quotes in Gibbor's signature, and I felt like he was talking straight to me. Now all I gotta do is listen to his advice and hopefully I'll finally get sober.

sounds like a plan

Good you have a plan, else serenity would let all hell loose on his thread

I never read serenity's thread until today, and it sure is an eye opener. It's a plan if I do it and don't just think about it.
To quote someone;

What does it mean to be "willing to go to any lengths to get what we have"? The natural instinct here is start thinking about what I'm willing to do to get sobriety. In other words what makes sense to me. So I'll look through the GYE tools and pick and choose, maybe I'll join SA, maybe I'll do a GYE phone meeting, maybe I'll get a sponsor. Yea a sponsor that makes sense. Ooooh ooooh ooooh, I know, I'll join Dov's Desperados! That really sounds cool. Yea, I'll do all that stuff, why not give it a try or why not try it again.

The problem with that thinking is that it is total baloney. We aren't ready to go to any lengths, if we are sticking our own thinking into it. You know where our thinking got us, no where. At least that's the case for people like me. If your thinking works for you, then you are due full respect.

When I am willing to go to any lengths? When I say "yes" to the person asking "are you willing to go to any lengths to have what we have?". And when I then proceed to ask him what I need to do based on his experience. He's the person that has what I want and I am now ready to listen to him tell me what I have to do to get there. What I think, is meaningless, unless he tells me otherwise.

Thanks for those words Serenity, I hope they help give me courage....