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You Make It Work

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎11-12-2016 09:02 AM

I wanted a larger monitor at my desk. I spent time looking online for good ratings,dimensions, and, an inexpensive price. I have a swing arm on the existing monitor and knew I wouldn't be using the base that came with the new monitor but didn.'t know the total height of the monitor without the base, so, I knew I might be taking my chances

I took it out of the box this morning to see where the mounting holes for the arm were. I measured the distance from my desk to the bottom hole of the monitor I would be replacing. 5 1/4"  The online picture of the back of the new monitor made it appear they were much lower than 5 1/4 so I figured I was going to need to lower the wall arm and chop up the backsplash on my desk.

As it turns out, the holes on the new monitor are at exactly 5 1/4.

The problem is, it may be taller than the bottom faceframe of the shelf unit above it.

Whatever happens when I mount it tomorrow?  (the cable is at the post office and should be delivered today.)

I WILL MAKE IT WORK.

That's exactly what you have to do with YOUR QUIT.

Realize you don't know everything that may come against your quit, but

YOU CAN MAKE IT WORK, NO MATTER WHAT!

IT'S A NEW DAY

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About the Author
Hello, My name is Dale. I was quit 18 months before joining this site and had participated on another site during that time. I learned a lot there and brought it with me. I joined this site the first week of August 2008. I didn't pressure myself to quit. HOW I QUIT I didn't count, I didn't deny myself to get started. When I considered quitting (at a friends request to influence his brother to quit), I simply told myself to wait a little longer. No denial, nothing painful. After 4 weeks I was down to 5 cigarettes from a pack a day. The strength came from proving to myself, I didn't need to smoke because I normally would have smoked. Simple yes? I bought the patch. I forgot to put one on on the 4th day. I needed it the next day but the following week I forgot two days in a row I put one in my wallet with a promise to myself that I would slap it on and wait an hour rather than smoke. It rode in my wallet my first year.There's nothing keeping any of you from doing this. It doesn't cost a dime. This is about unlearning something you've done for a long time. The nicotine isn't the hard part. Disconnecting from the psychological pull, the memories and connected emotions is. :-) Time is the healer.