Getting Past Gambling

A place to come and share experiences, to find support and strength, for those of us who are putting gambling behind us and finding new exciting and happier ways to live our lives.
" You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing."
*Dale Carnegie {1888-1955 American Author & Achievement Expert}


Wednesday, April 19, 2006

DESIRE IS THE STARTING POINT FOR SUCCESS

If you have the desire you have the power to be successful.
You can really have anything you want in life if you go after it.
But you have to want it.
The first thing that will contribute to reaching your goal is that you simply want to reach it badly enough.
You must learn how to desire with sufficient intensity to be successful.
As a drowning soul desires air,
as a shipwrecked person craves fresh water, so must you feel that intense, eager, insistent, demanding, ravenous desire for your success.
Your desire for success must be so strong within you that it becomes the very breath of your life.
It must be your first thought when you wake up, and your last thought when you go to bed at night.
You can have anything you want if you go after it with intensity.

©2006 by Max Steingart

Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Gamblers’ Group

GAMBLERS Help (Western) is urging residents in the City of Maribyrnong to take a stand on problem gambling in Victoria with state gambling licences are up for review.

Amanda Jones, the group’s program co-ordinator, will host a public meeting on behalf of the Council of Gamblers Help Services on Thursday in Hoppers Crossing.

The council will raise awareness of how people can make submissions to the State Government and affect changes in licensing regulations.
The council will also use information raised in the session for their submission to the Bracks Government.
Ms Jones said the council believed changes needed to be made to the way poker machines were operated.
“We need immediately to look at the fact that poker machines impair people’s ability to make informed decisions during play,” she said.
“The emphasis has been too much on people’s pathology and individual responsibility.
“We’re of the view that the State Government needs to look at introducing a system whereby all players are required before they enter the gaming room to set a limit on how much they spend.”

She said an industry-wide system needed to be introduced, like a gaming debit card which would allow gamblers to spend only a specific amount of money when they entered a gaming room.
Ms Jones said only a small number of people suffered from a gambling “illness” or pathological condition.“
It’s about the pokie product being unsafe.
It is designed for rapid and continuous play,” she said.
“So, we’re saying we need a sort of seat-belt, if you like, when people play pokies.
“We would like to see significant strategies by government to make pokies safer. They should step away from individual pathologising as the cause of problem gambling and look more at consumer protection and safety.”

The review comes at a time when 83 per cent of Victorians see gambling as a serious social problem.

The public meeting will be held at 10.30am on 20 April in the Wyndham Health Service, at the corner of Warringa and Claremont crescents, Hoppers Crossing.

Amanda, who can be contacted on 9296 1238, said submissions close 4 May.

By Christine de Kock 18th April 2006 10:44:16 AM
http://www.starnewsgroup.com.au/story/13224

Thursday, April 13, 2006

DAILY GURU

WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET

Life at any time can become difficult.
Life at any time can become easy.
It all depends upon how you adjust yourself to life.
You cannot always control your circumstances.
But you can always think positive thoughts.
The realities of life result from many outside factors, none of which you can control.
Your attitude, however, reflects the way in which you evaluate what's happening to you.
It is not your situation,
it's your reaction to the situation that's important.
Things always seem to turn out best for those people who can make the best out of the way things turn out.
There is nothing either good or bad, only your thinking makes it so.

Wednesday, April 12, 2006

"Imagine Your Ideal Future"

"Your imagination is your preview to life’s coming attractions."
-- Albert Einstein


If you were to create an ideal future for yourself, what would it be like?
All things that now exist in form were once simply ideas in consciousness. We each hold the power to manifest different circumstances for our lives. If we wish to manifest a new reality for ourselves, we need to consistently focus our imagination on the ideals we seek to realize.
Remember to explore your ideal in terms of qualities, not people or things. What qualities do you most want in life? Freedom? Respect? Playfulness? Abundance? Whatever qualities you seek, imagine experiencing them now and be open to new ways to discover those qualities appearing in your life.


"Change is created by those whose imaginations are bigger than their circumstances"
-- Unknown source

Tuesday, April 11, 2006

DAILY GURU

YOUR LIFE WILL BE WHAT YOU MAKE OF IT

The golden opportunity you are seeking lies within you.
It's not in your environment.
It's not in luck or chance,
or in the help of others.
It's all in you.
There are opportunities all around you.
If the door of opportunity appears closed, you must knock on it and keep knocking on it until it opens.
You must become an opener of doors.
You can develop your opportunities
by applying persistence and tenacity to your possibilities.
Success doesn't come to you.
You must go to success.



©2006 by Max Steingart

DAILY GURU

YOU CAN'T SUCCEED WITHOUT A GOAL


The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this:
decide what you want.

You must first establish your objectives if you are to accomplish anything in a big way.
Goals give you a starting place and a destination.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

Determine what you want.
Decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination.
If you don't know where you're going, how can you expect to get there?

Goals are dreams that are written down.
Plant your dreams, nourish and begin to live them.
The most important thing about a goal is having one.



©2006 by Max Steingar

Monday, April 10, 2006

DAILY GURU

YOU CAN'T SUCCEED WITHOUT A GOAL
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this:
decide what you want

You must first establish your objectives if you are to accomplish anything in a big way.
Goals give you a starting place and a destination.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
Determine what you want.
Decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination.
If you don't know where you're going, how can you expect to get there?
Goals are dreams that are written down.
Plant your dreams, nourish and begin to live them.
The most important thing about a goal is having one.

DAILY GURU

DO THE NEXT THING

Keeping a little ahead of conditions is one of the secrets of business.
The time to repair your roof is when the sun is shining.
Do things before they need to be done.
Let your advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
Position yourself ahead of time in the best place for you.
You'll gain the advantage in any situation through the medium of time.
When you think ahead of any approaching action you'll always have the advantage.
You'll be the winner.
When you do what is necessary, all the odds are in your favor.

DAILY GURU

YOU CAN'T SUCCEED WITHOUT A GOAL

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this:
decide what you want.
You must first establish your objectives if you are to accomplish anything in a big way.
Goals give you a starting place and a destination.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
Determine what you want.
Decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination.
If you don't know where you're going, how can you expect to get there?
Goals are dreams that are written down.
Plant your dreams, nourish and begin to live them.
The most important thing about a goal is having one.



©2006 by Max Steingart

DAILY GURU

YOU CAN'T SUCCEED WITHOUT A GOAL
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this:
decide what you want.
You must first establish your objectives if you are to accomplish anything in a big way.
Goals give you a starting place and a destination.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
Determine what you want.
Decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination.
If you don't know where you're going, how can you expect to get there?
Goals are dreams that are written down.
Plant your dreams, nourish and begin to live them.
The most important thing about a goal is having one.


©2006 by Max Steingart

DAILY GURU

YOU CAN'T SUCCEED WITHOUT A GOAL


The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this:
decide what you want.

You must first establish your objectives if you are to accomplish anything in a big way.
Goals give you a starting place and a destination.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

Determine what you want.
Decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination.
If you don't know where you're going, how can you expect to get there?

Goals are dreams that are written down.
Plant your dreams, nourish and begin to live them.
The most important thing about a goal is having one.


DAILY GURU

YOU CAN'T SUCCEED WITHOUT A GOAL


The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this:
decide what you want.

You must first establish your objectives if you are to accomplish anything in a big way.
Goals give you a starting place and a destination.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

Determine what you want.
Decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination.
If you don't know where you're going, how can you expect to get there?

Goals are dreams that are written down.
Plant your dreams, nourish and begin to live them.
The most important thing about a goal is having one.


DAILY GURU

YOU CAN'T SUCCEED WITHOUT A GOAL


The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this:
decide what you want.

You must first establish your objectives if you are to accomplish anything in a big way.
Goals give you a starting place and a destination.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

Determine what you want.
Decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination.
If you don't know where you're going, how can you expect to get there?

Goals are dreams that are written down.
Plant your dreams, nourish and begin to live them.
The most important thing about a goal is having one.

Sunday, April 09, 2006

DAILY GURU

YOU CAN'T SUCCEED WITHOUT A GOAL

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this:
decide what you want.

You must first establish your objectives if you are to accomplish anything in a big way.
Goals give you a starting place and a destination.


People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

Determine what you want.

Decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination.

If you don't know where you're going, how can you expect to get there?

Goals are dreams that are written down.

Plant your dreams, nourish and begin to live them.

The most important thing about a goal is having one.


©2006 by Max Steingart

DAILY GURU

YOU CAN'T SUCCEED WITHOUT A GOAL

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this:
decide what you want.

You must first establish your objectives if you are to accomplish anything in a big way.
Goals give you a starting place and a destination.


People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

Determine what you want.

Decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination.

If you don't know where you're going, how can you expect to get there?

Goals are dreams that are written down.

Plant your dreams, nourish and begin to live them.

The most important thing about a goal is having one.


©2006 by Max Steingart

DAILY GURU

YOU CAN'T SUCCEED WITHOUT A GOAL

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this:
decide what you want.

You must first establish your objectives if you are to accomplish anything in a big way.
Goals give you a starting place and a destination.


People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

Determine what you want.

Decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination.

If you don't know where you're going, how can you expect to get there?

Goals are dreams that are written down.

Plant your dreams, nourish and begin to live them.

The most important thing about a goal is having one.


©2006 by Max Steingart

Saturday, April 08, 2006

DAILY GURU

DO THE NEXT THING

Keeping a little ahead of conditions
is one of the secrets of business.


The time to repair your roof is when the sun is shining.

Do things before they need to be done.

Let your advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

Position yourself ahead of time in the best place for you.

You'll gain the advantage in any situation through the medium of time.

When you think ahead of any approaching action you'll always have the advantage.
You'll be the winner.


When you do what is necessary,
all the odds are in your favor.



©2006 by Max Steingart

Monday, April 03, 2006

DAILY GURU

EIGHTY PERCENT OF SUCCESS IS SHOWING UP

When you're sure you're on the right road to attaining success you don't have to plan your journey too far ahead.

Don't burden yourself with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar your progress.

You don't need to know all your answers in advance.

Just have a clear idea of the goal you want to reach.

You can only take one step at a time.

Once you muster up the courage to begin, you'll find the courage to succeed.

You'll get what you want if you go after it.

It's the job you never start that always takes the longest to finish.

©2006 by Max Steingart