Cognitive Quit Smoking

OK, OK, I’m taking a break. The football hasn’t started yet, got a few more
hours to go but I did get about 4 loads of laundry done and a few other boring
chores out of the way. And, yes, I mean football as in American football, not
soccer (even though, as you know, that I love soccer too).

In the back of my mind, I’ve kind of equated to being happy when more
good/positive things are going on in my life than bad/negative things. Once
when I was feeling bad, it was suggested by you-know-who that people have a
tendency to look upon the very recent past for the events that influence our
mood. For example, I have a tendency to get unhappy when something negative
happens between my youngest daughter and I. I want to focus on that event for
days, bringing myself and everyone around me into my funk. It was suggested
that maybe I should look back further/earlier, then most probably the positives
would outweigh the negatives in my life once more. Simple, but it works, and
it’s a way of looking at the whole picture of life, rather than having tunnel

vision. And, of course, we have the ability to change so many things in our
lives for the better so I think a lot of unhappiness is because we don’t take
positive action. And there’s the events that we can’t change. But I have to
believe that if we keep up the positives (such as quitting smoking) then there a
much better chance of those negatives still being in the minority.
I’m staying away from this one.
- Cat

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