Will I ever get my DFW mojo back?

Molanole

Aw thanks everyone! It's so good knowing that there's support here and it all helps to keep me disciplined. :T

flowerofscotland wrote:

It sounds as though you haven't actually slipped off the DFW wagon, just that your grip is a bit precarious at the moment. So this post and the other preceding and following it is to help pull you back into the centre of the wagon surrounded by the rest of us to stop you falling again.

Flowerofscotland - you're right. I'm not fully off the wagon. I haven't been fully off the wagon since my LBM but recently, as you say, my grip has been a bit precarious. I think that's the power of this site though, and the DFW community particularly, that without it I would really be stuck by now but having come so far I now know how to look out for the warning signs. If I'd not found this site by now I would be blindly ignoring my debt, overspending like crazy and making the dreaded minimum payments on everything!

moozie wrote:

Hang in there, keep reading and posting if possible and you'll be back in the swing of things before you know it.

Hi Moozie - how are you getting on? I think I've missed all the recent news.

Over the next two weeks I expect to be doing some very long days and a few overnighters but come 6th December I shall be using up the 4 weeks annual leave I carried into this leave year (we get six weeks anyway!) and I'm taking a month off work. During that month I'm going to spend my time posting on here, getting back on top of things and hitting the gym. It's time I invested in me! Tightening my precarious grip is priority. I'm here for the long haul as Moozie says.

Mrs_Sparkle wrote:

£16K is a huge challenge but if anyone can do it you can!

Mrs Sparkle - thanks for the AMAZING vote of confidence! It will be a tough year but I'm pretty determined to get there. Here's to 2007, the year of the DFW! :beer:

moozie_2

Molanole wrote:

Hi Moozie - how are you getting on? I think I've missed all the recent news.

Over the next two weeks I expect to be doing some very long days and a few overnighters but come 6th December I shall be using up the 4 weeks annual leave I carried into this leave year (we get six weeks anyway!) and I'm taking a month off work. During that month I'm going to spend my time posting on here, getting back on top of things and hitting the gym. It's time I invested in me! Tightening my precarious grip is priority. I'm here for the long haul as Moozie says.

Hey sweetie

So lovely to see you back and more positive/confident! :T Hope to see a lot more of that while you are off work

Thanks for asking after me, I am doing great! The short update is that the debt repayment is going fab, got a new temporary job (6 months then back to my normal job) with £4,000 pa increase, bought a lovely house with my OH and we are moving in 3 weeks and we also got engaged and hoping to get married next year.

Keep posting, it helps I promise! Us long haul DFWs must stick together!

Dan2779

I know exactly how you feel!!

I have been absolutely hopeless recently, spending a fortune on lunches and not filling out my spending diary.. I put it down to it being Winter and miserable and I am also working hard!

Keep at it!! I am sure you will regain your mojo soon!!!

Danielle

LookingAhead

Hi Molanole.

Just wanted to let you know that you are not the only one who has seen their debt go up instead of down after a period of progress. I know how frustrating it is.

I'm just about to take a deep breath (OK, just have!) and start again so, I really know how you feel.

Try to start your diary again - even if your boss sees it he /she probably wouldn't say anything about such a sensitive subject. And even if he/she did - you could just deny it?!

Molanole

Dan2779 wrote:

I have been absolutely hopeless recently, spending a fortune on lunches and not filling out my spending diary.. I put it down to it being Winter and miserable and I am also working hard!

OMG, tell me about it! The lunches thing is so bad - it costs so much money!! To think all those years I've been popping out for a sandwich. If only I'd realised five years ago :rolleyes:. I need to sort that one out over the next two weeks. Once I'm off work it will not be a problem but thankfully the OH is busy in the kitchen making me some pasta to take for my lunch tomorrow. Bless him!

moozie wrote:

Us long haul DFWs must stick together

Too right moozie! We'll get there in the end! Congrats on all your amazing news by the way. You must be channelling positive energy from somewhere! You go girl!

Molanole

LookingAhead wrote:

Just wanted to let you know that you are not the only one who has seen their debt go up instead of down after a period of progress. I know how frustrating it is.

Hi LookingAhead. Thanks for sharing. It's always good to know that others occasionally have the same blips (which I mean in the nicest way of course). I'm sure the same applies to you in that if you hadn't found this site you'd probably just have carried on, ignoring the problem. You're in a far better position now as you are aware of the problem.

So many people have said so many nice things in this thread though. So, in short, we just need to pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off and crack on. Hang in there girl. I'm here if you ever need a keeping-us-focussed kick-up-the-backside!!

LookingAhead

Thanks Molanole - I probably will need it

System

I know how you feel, I've lost the bubble lately. But got to dig in, it will be long hard slog. It feels like a blind summit.......you get to what you think is the top of the hill only to see another huge summit in front of you. Onwards and upwards.

Molanole

Hi lenny.

Onwards and upwards indeed. You can join me and LookingAhead and all the other long haulers who are feeling the pinch at the mo in regaining our DFW mojo(s).

Keep it up mate - you'll get there.

Mola x

Froglette

This thread is the first step back in the right direction for you so don't worry too much - you could have just decided to ignore things altogether and never post on here again - but you didn't so well done!