The Pros and Cons of slipping up

So I was trucking along very well with 18 days of no playing the machines.

While on holidays I slipped up, I have to admit deliberately, and spent time playing them. On the plus side, I won quite a bit.

On the minus side, today I did it again and lost quite a bit.

I am we'll and truly in front for the weekend but today's events have proven to me that I must return to banning myself from the machines.

It makes sense. I was going great for the almost three weeks and that proves to me that I can do it. I'm best to stick to the races when it comes to gambling.

I learnt a lesson that could have been a lot more costly.

Seventeen and counting

I'm almost up to three weeks now on the Challenge and all is going well.
I find it amazing and awesome that something as simple as a little 'challenge' has been enough to get me out of the habit that had been troubling me.
I don't pretend I have won the battle yet but after 17 days I'd have to say I'm getting on top.
I've been away a bit and am going away again shortly but after that I should get a bit more consistent with posting and resume the movie reviews.

One week down

So it has been seven days since I undertook the challenge to go 100 days without playing the machines.

So far so good.

It hasn't been easy but it also hasn't been super hard. Occasionally I'll consider it then i'll correct myself and think about better ways to use my money.

The 100 Day Challenge

It's time to get serious and beat this troubling habit I've developed when it comes to the poker machines.
How and why it started doesn't matter, it was pretty innocuous, but what does matter is that is has reached a stage where it could be a big problem if I continue down the path I seem to be headed.
So I came across the 100 Day Challenge - a goal to set and commit to not gambling on the machines for 100 days.
By then the habit should be broken and while I don't pretend it will be easy it's great to have a goal to work towards.
100 days is a long time and it isn't a long time - if you know what I mean.
It's important to me to be able to win the mental battle here because there are bigger battles up ahead.
Yes, I have a problem. This is the first step on the way to beating it.
Wish me luck.