Finally quit Curbco!

RolleyRogers sounds like you have made some good decisions for yourself and the ones that really matter (the family). The decision to stop shopping at curbco is not a "biggy" in the reality of life. The biggy, is choosing to look within at yourself, for what's going wrong or right. When we choose to evaluate our selves, we can quit blaming others and can start making our selves, the person we want to be. The measurement of who's a successful person, is all about who is doing the measuring? If I may. I suggest you again are going to be the best person with that measurement. I personally measure my success or failures, by how and how often I achieve goals. Some goals are short term and fairly simple to achieve. Each day I set personal goals, These usually are the easy one's, realistically obtainable. They may be easy, but need to be accomplished because not meeting personal easy goals is a "setup". A setup for not obtaining harder goals and more important, the self satisfaction. At the "end of the day", I have to be able to look at myself in a mirror and be happy with what I see. This is how I have learned to set and achieve much harder goals, but it all starts with those easy/daily goals. Let me reiterate, I win some and loose some of those goal "battles" I have with myself (win most of them). I have had a goal to learn to speak spanish for over ten years now, a perfect example of a goal not met. Failure comes with the goal setting, what counts is to each day, do as best as you can and never give up on yourself.