DONE AND DUSTED? (By Ben Kelly)
01/06/10 • 3 Comments

Today, June 1 2010 marks the end of my Hello Sunday Morning journey. So, what have I accomplished? Great question due to the fact that I myself cannot answer that in full. I made an oath to myself to attempt to endeavour in my sport as well as my studies and attempt to find some sort of financial stability. I feel I have achieved the first two by playing my first 3 games of senior football and achieving higher grades thus far at Uni (still have exams to go. eek). However, the whole finances part hasn’t gone as well as I planned. My aim was to be able to purchase a new laptop and I have missed the mark, but with the help of a little thing I like to call tax return I should be well on my way to a new Apple Macbook haha. The last month or [...]

49th Day By Ben Kelly
19/04/10 • 4 Comments

Today marks the 49th day of my Hello Sunday Morning. Also, it marks 90days since I had my last drink. Writing this blog today is actually the first time I have thought about the statistics… When I am finished my Hello Sunday Morning would have constituted 92 days in total. Also, because I stopped drinking  just before HSM it would be 3168 hours sober! I have 41 more days to reach my Hello Sunday Morning goals – although I think I have achieved much more than that already Over the past couple of weeks it seems that a lot has changed in terms of how I feel I’m progressing with my HSM. I feel as though I’m learning more and more about myself every day, however, at the same time I feel as though I could be learning the most about myself post HSM. Its like I feel that I have achieved what I wanted to know about myself as a non-drinker. That is, now I know how to [...]

Chooks 21st!! (By Ben Kelly)
23/03/10 • 2 Comments

First of all… One of the best parties I’ve been to in a long time! The beauty of it being I was 100% sober and still had an amazing time. In my first post Chris set me the personal challenge to just cut loose and enjoy myself like I would if I was drinking. I set off to a good friends 21st with that in mind and it really helped me to grasp more of an idea as to why I am doing HSM. Also the positive mindset allowed me to have fun and run wild with the camera and took some good snaps and some pretty funny ones. Like any decent party there was rowdiness with the drink and I’m kinda glad there was because it made me able to see a drunken night from a sober persons perspective. Normally when I’m sober in a situation like this I just [...]

Rising to the Challenge! (By Ben Kelly)
17/03/10 • 2 Comments

Alright I have been totally slack with my posts…. But! I figured what better way to make up for it but to post on a festive day like St Patrick’s Day!! So, I’ve been partaking in my Hello Sunday Morning for a couple of weeks now and it has been great! The urge to drink has been there and its been tough but it has felt good to overcome this urge. However, I have come across the one thing I didn’t even think of before starting this. It has felt as though I have been letting HSM be my “excuse” or reason for not drinking in certain situations. If someone would ask why I wasn’t drinking it was almost as though the answer I gave them made HSM the reason and not few times have I replied “because I have chosen not to drink tonght”. The scariest part of all [...]

FIRST POST (By Ben Kelly)
09/03/10 • 4 Comments

Hey! My name is Ben.  I am your regular 20yr old male and I live on the Sunshine Coast and in my third year of a marketing degree. Like many others I often spend Saturday nights drinking with friends in order to partake in an activity of socialisation. My HSM journey may differ slightly to that of others as my initial plan was to not drink for just one month, but half way through it felt as though I wasn’t making the most of my sobriety. I had heard about this thing called Hello Sunday Morning and wanted to learn more about the concept. So here I am taking the plunge for another 3months or maybe longer but this time it’ll be done properly! My biggest challenge: Footy season usually calls for drinks after the game with some of the boys and the changing of my post-game activities will be [...]