sweetshoola

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I'm doing 20 things
 

sweetshoola's Life List

  1. 1. find my home
    14 people
  2. 2. be a better teacher
    219 people
  3. 3. read The Count of Monte Cristo
    44 people
  4. 4. ice skate
    126 people
  5. 5. take ayahuasca with a shaman
    7 people
  6. 6. think smaller
    1 person
  7. 7. pay off credit cards
    1,381 people
  8. 8. be in the best shape of my life...
    47 people
  9. 9. see the northern lights
    1 entry
    16,414 people
  10. 10. wake up when my alarm clock goes off
    1 cheer
    7,435 people
  11. 11. write a book
    1 cheer
    24,979 people
  12. 12. float the Stikine River
    1 person
  13. 13. get a dog
    3,731 people
  14. 14. meditate every day
    3 cheers
    629 people
  15. 15. be a mother
    572 people
  16. 16. go to India
    1,035 people
  17. 17. read, read, and read some more
    1 cheer
    374 people
  18. 18. practice yoga every day
    1 cheer
    65 people
  19. 19. expand my vocabulary
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    2,537 people
  20. 20. do a vipassana meditation retreat
    1 entry . 3 cheers
    65 people

How I did it
How to be more confident
It took me
2 years
It made me
happy


Recent entries
be in love
changing it to "be love" 14 months ago

It’s not hard to acknowledge feelings of lust and passion towards someone, but that is not what love is. Until I can let myself BE LOVE, I cannot give love, and therefore being “in love” won’t happen. It’s far, far away, if at all, for me.



stop biting my fingernails
What's the point? 17 months ago

It’s not like it’s necessarily bad for you. In fact, it could be the reason I have such a strong immune system. I give up… there are more important things in life.



stop smoking
an easy way to quit 17 months ago

I was able to quit by using Nicorette gum (2 mg) whenever I had a craving for a cigarette. Once the smoking habit is gone, you sort of forget to chew the gum. It worked for me and is worth the investment. I still keep some gum around just in case I’m ever tempted (like when I’m around smokers or have been drinking)
As an incentive, keep a “piggy bank” of cash that you would have spent on a pack of cigarettes (so for example, in my state cigarettes are $7 a pack and I would smoke about 1 pack every 3-4 days, so every 3-4 days I would put $7 in the bank. Then, when you have quit and are totally free of nicotine… take that money and buy something cool for yourself as a reward.
Good luck… be one of the 5% who actually remain non-smokers after quitting! It is hard, so you should be proud of yourself when you do. Who wants to be a wheezy, yellow, wrinkly, stinky old person anyway?



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