No more .. Gambling, Drugs, Booze

Quote Originally Posted by Colts03:

you should buy a ps3 for those nights you stay in 

i dont really play video games.

thanks tho

anyways .... i feel like shit. taking my dog down to doggie beach

the good thing is ... i feel hope. i feel positive.  

thanks guys ... this thread has helped me a lot

i'll be back to bitch more. im not picking up .... no matter what. good day mates.

Regarding LV, you know what happens there stays there. 

Including your money.

That city has ruined half of America, the bank robbery and divorce rates have both gone up. if it sank beneath the sands of the Mojave Desert, we would all be better off.

great link for me to read right now. thank you

that amazed me but it makes sense. i am $ sober.

North Shore

thank you

when i am sober i am a real man. take care of all of my shit. read books. make money. think of ways to make money. almost obsess about it.

when i am active i am useless to my future.

30 meetings in 30 days.

Get a sponsor.

Work the steps.

One day @ a time brother.

Cup of coffee, cigeratte, 1 hour walk @ 5am.

I've been doing this every morning since I've became sober.

Find a routine.  Stick to it.  and your mental capacity will eliminate the things it's use too.  It's all about finding something new.  You kick an addiction, you pick up a new one.  It's an on goign cycle.

But you can be addicted to stuff that doesn't harm you or others.

PM me anytime my dude.   

GIL

im starting the 5am  .. walk dog .. coffee .. cig ... tomorrow

i agree. i need a routine. and meetings of course.

yes. it will be money until im ready for inner health.

i'll hit you up now just so i gotcha!

these nights are brutal!

thanks my friend

I don't know where you're @ or where you'll be @ with the withdrawls.....

I'd put in a strong gym session an hour or two before bed.  That way I'm burnt from the gym and my body is tired and my mind will adjust to the body being tired as well.

It's man power.  It's time to put up, nut up, and shut up.  I bitched out of quitting my drinking/drugs for 6 years.

Then I started pissing off loved ones - friends & family - and saw my job slowly fading away from me.

I put in a year of sobreity before I started to tinker with gambling.  I got my buzz on life now.  Still hit walls of stress & depression.  But that's normal.  You're going to be stuck with that for a long, long time.

A bottle of booz puts everything @ eaze for what... 2-3 hours?  And then what??  You'll gradually want more & more & more to not feel anything.  Same as the drugs.  Pills.  Coke.  Whatever...  all the same shit.

It's all about what you want & how you want to do it.  Nobody is going to do it for you.  I learned this.  The hard way.  And finally coped with reality. 

It's a daily struggle.  But the more you stay busy, the least of the worries will occur.  Bordem is all bad.  Stay busy.  Consistency is key.

Music is the best.  Exercise.  And talking.  Talking on forum boards like this helps alot too.  You can get all the shit out on the computer that you can't muster up the courage to do in a face-to-face convo.

Hope this helps out my man.  Like I said, anytime, get @ me.   

time to be the man i want to be

i requested you.

thanks bro, i think i'll stick with aa and put nothing mind or mood altering in my body.

Quote Originally Posted by I_Need_A_Detox:

i just put 960 on sox -1.5 ... it was in an account. i hope it loses so i can move on  

 i can move on. no money in any accounts after this loss.

Wow this is an amazing thread.

I get where youre coming from Detox. It is hard to walk away from the lifestyle, I've been struggling with it for a little while now. Part of me wants to walk away from it and part of me loves it. Especially with NFL getting started it will be even more difficult.

I hope you are able to find that routine or hobby you are searching for to help occupy your time and attention.

thanks ktrain.

idk what the fuck to do. im just going to get healthy(run, work out) and put all my attention on money.( read books,talk to people that are making it etc) 30-40 are pretty important years. i dont want to waste them. you only live once. i want to be the man i know i can be.

not to mention the women i want to raise my kids someday wouldnt want a loser like me. time for me to grow up.

bol ktrain  

Really good point. I fail to realize this a lot. Probably not going to want to marry some chick I met in a bar on a Tuesday night.

Have you been looking into purchasing any more properties?

yeah ... thats what im saying. i dont want a bar chick to raise my kids. i want a special woman ... a smart woman(if that exists and obv a really attractive lady.

yeah, thats what i spend all of my time on now. im supposed to close on a 3 fam at the end of the month. that will free up a good amount of cash. idk ... im thinking of going into the worst market in the united states and trying to flip with just cash. no banks. make a little less on each but sell more.

im thinking ... detroit

maybe i need to clear up a bit first

but real estate gets my blood going. i love it. its not like work ... i actually enjoy researching a bunch of stuff and reading books about it. then i put it into action and saw huge rewards right away. its def what i'm going to do. i think im going to work a normal job too though for the time being. just to stay occupied.

I find that so funny that you say Detroit. That's where I grew up and actually hoping to move back to in a few years(I just moved to Orange County last month).

I actually agree with your thoughts of going to Detroit. Homes are insanely cheap and not just in the 313. My child hood best friend just bought a home for roughly $60k in an area where we grew up at(Oak Park/Ferndale). Not the best area but it's definitley NOT the ghetto. It's safe, affordable, it just has a bunch of small 2 bedroom homes.

I actually encourage Detroit and especially where I am from(North Suburbs). I think 10 years from now it will have rebounded and will be on it's way up. Homes in and around Detroit are insanely cheap. BOL with it and I hope you are able to find success there.

my plan is to buy as much shit in the next 3-4 years and then hold everything for ten years and cash flow. then sell when the market gets up there again.

its a hard plan to accomplish. but i have a 2 fam and 3 fam so and im an idiot.

can you tell me the right areas to look in? its tough on the internet to know if it is the ghotto or not. i need to take a 4 day trip there. but the houses are so cheap it is fucking nuts. i think 100k to flip with will go a long way there. plus i'll rent a nice apartment and they are cheap as hell too. maybe i'll see you there.