So...do you need to keep the same mentality on days 78, 212, 547 as you do on days 1-10?
I personally think the mentality needs to be the same very day, Day 1 through whatever. Well, I don't know. I can't see into the future. But I know that for the last 295 days, I have made a very conscious and deliberate decision to not dip. I have posted roll every day, promising to not do it. It's always going to be a matter of making a choice.
This is the only way I understand. It's the only way I have been successful. Speaking for myself, I am not ready to do this any other way. I know I can walk away from this mentality and survive. But for how long is the question I ask myself. I fear that the "just one" mistake could happen, if I become any less vigilant than I am. No complacency, no failure.
If so, how do you make that happen?
I think you make it happen by continuing to live by the creed - ONE DAY AT A TIME, you come here, and allow yourself to be held accountable.
If not, what will have changed?
Nothing will every change....we will always be addicts. Hence the necessity of maintaining the mentality. At least for me, for now.
Good shit, Smokey.