Quitting Smoking

Dropping That Nasty Habit for Good Cold Turkey

Today I’m going to quit smoking. I quit smoking in January 2004 and unfortunatly started smoking again in April of 2006. Well, I’m putting my foot down and I’m not going to smoke anymore. I know what you’re thinking, “Yeah right, you’ll stop for a few days, then you’ll be back at that nasty habit once again.” You might be right, then again, I may just prove you WRONG!

My boyfriend smokes so this is going to be challenge. I have a system of accomplishing things in my life that I want to accomplish. Well, not really a system, but a little thing I call “Determination the UpSideDownGrl Way” – and so far this has worked wonders for me. It’s basically the drastic changing of things all at once and not looking back. I’ve done quite a bit of that in my life and this will just be another knotch on the pole. If it’s something that I want and I mean really want, then I will get it, no matter what!

I started my writing career by using my determination the UpSideDownGrl way. A friend of mine (we’re not friends anymore) told me that I could never make money writing web copy because I had no degree and had never written anything before except just in my journals, blogs, short stories, etc. Nothing was ever published but I had never tried to publish anything either. I was dead set on proving him wrong and after minimal research on the subject and a bit of winging it, I succeeded and landed my first online writing gig ghostwriting for an e-zine on “Christmas activities for Children”. It took just a few weeks and Voila! I was a web writer and making money. Once I landed that, I applied for more jobs and also landed those as well. I did lose a good friend out of all of this proving him wrong, but I guess he really wasn’t that good of friend if he doesn’t want to be friends with me just because I succeeded in something that he failed in so many times.

© 2008 UpSideDownGrl