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Fortune Cookies!

Storm.3.1.14
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  Tomorrow is Positive Thinking Day, which is wonderful, but it’s also Fortune Cookie Day! (Seriously!) So, I thought I’d combine the two and put together a little something for all of us here. You know, to tumble around in our noggins over the weekend.
   
  I have 3 actual cookie fortunes here at my desk. Here’s the first…
   
  
   
  If you really ought to quit, and you need to quit, and you’ve said you want to do it, then you can accomplish it. All of it. And that’s why you’re here, and it’s why you’re reading this. Because there are ways here to get this done, and dozens of people here who’ve already done it. You can do it, too.
   
   
  Here’s the next one, and it’s one of my newest favorites…
   
  
   
  Could it get any more profound than this?! Our Truth here is simple: Not One Puff, Ever. It was true on your quit day, it was true yesterday, it will be true tomorrow, and it’ll be true next week and next year. The key is to accept it, to believe it, to practice it, to preach it, and to put enough faith in it that it ripens into wisdom.
   
   
  Finally, this last fortune is one that I have carried with me in my wallet since 2005. On the very day that I extricated myself from a set of chaotic circumstances, this fortune awaited me after a Chinese lunch. Here it is…
   
  
   
  Every day we spend here at EX, every day we pledge to be smoke-free (and succeed), every win we celebrate, every helping hand we offer (or receive), every struggle we cry over, every crave or stressor or addictive thought or slip or relapse, even if it‘s not our own…every single one of these things shows us that we   cannot…learn…less. These things can teach us and make us smarter, but we must heed the lesson. We must want to learn the hard stuff if we expect to know the easy stuff, and we must protect all the good stuff in the face of the bad. Because a pile of mistakes and a mountain of victories can both teach us to climb.
   
   
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