The last few years of my life have been better than the years leading up. I work as a peer support worker in mental health and have been doing it for 3 and a half years.
The purpose of 2026 is to become addiction free and save as much money as possible.
Smoking and excessive coffee are both stimulants as is gambling. Gambling acts on the brain the same way a stimulant does. Ideally I can eliminate all these addictions at the same time. Manifesting multiple intentions can be done because of momentum. Each success feeds into the next success. As I write this I have about 100 smokes left. Starting tomorrow my goal is to only have one cup of coffee, the rest are rather redundant.
Coffee acts on the brain in such a way where it lowers creativity, it becomes easy to do repetitive tasks that would be C or D level tasks but the real A level tasks suffer because you don’t have the same creative capacity. Coffee is also bad for gut health, a few years ago I went off coffee for a week and in some ways I felt great. My brain was getting more clear and less foggy as the days went by.
Tomorrow it starts by only having the first one. Then I’ll notice that I won’t have brain fog in the morning. Upon waking up it will be easier to feel clear at that point.
Then on Jan 1 I will drink water the whole month. In 2012 in January I did 30 days in a row drinking nothing but water. I felt very clear minded at that point in time. My hydration was always good and I played good ball hockey back then.
The smoking is something I plan to minimize as the year comes to a close.
I was smoking an average of 30 per day for the last few years. With 100 left the goal is not to buy any more. I have a couple weeks worth of patches and gums. I’ll start by leaving the house with 3 smokes instead of a 20 pack. I’ll have the gum and the patches to fill the urges. That number will decrease by a factor of 10.
Last year I almost did it.
This year I plan to follow through completely.
The gambling addiction is one that will be harder to overcome.
My last casino trip was Dec 19. I haven’t been back since.
In the first half of 2026, I want to take a very heavy front loaded strategy of paying all my expenses for the year by the end of May. This means in June everything is paid for. The rest of the year I can save 100% of earnings. Having temptation to gamble will be easy to deal with because for the first 6 months of the year I’m paying all bills well in advance. After 6 months I will have time to remove the addiction just by not being able to afford to go.
At the end of the year, I’m smoke free, barely have coffee, and have no desire to gamble.
If I can do all of what I said 2026 will be a great year!
To your success,
Angus