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This is the third post in the “Health” series at The Efficiency Proposal.
For some it’s smoking, others it’s being lazy. Addictions have had the personality as being something you want to stay away from, for as long as possible.
How can being addicted to positive ideas and concepts be negative for you?
Addictions almost never take the form of a positive outcome. Even being addicted to work, school, or blogging can potentially be harmful to you. Ponder this for one second. One part of your life affects another. Think about it this way: while you are making the big bucks for your family, your family is sitting on the couch waiting for you to get home.
Maybe you like to drink alcohol. You know you can possibly be unfortunate in the future, but right now you aren’t seeing any affects or feeling any symptoms. To add to this your friends drink and you don’t want to say no. (For more information on saying no, visit here.) Guess what? You can not live life like this. It will not work out. Why should you stop? The affects will take some life changes to get used to. Before you know it you’ll be forty years old, ignoring the fact that you might not live this long, with some major problems that will include bad teeth, horrible hygiene, and stuck in a rehab center.
Even in my short thirteen years, I have been addicted to a ton of rubbish like Pokemon, a sports stock market, and baseball cards. Addictions have lead me to new ideas and introduced me to new places. I will never be able to say that I didn’t benefit from these hobbies but I do regret spending so much time on these things. My first mistake was putting school behind all of these things. Hopefully I can avoid this mistake with blogging.
What is holding you back from stopping your addiction?
First things first, if you are being lazy… stop! The only way you get a real result, is if you take a real test. By being lazy, you are giving yourself a zero percent chance to succeed.
Once you have told yourself honestly that you are not going to be lazy in this effort, you have to try different things. If I was an expert about stopping addictions I would be blogging about that. I don’t know what really works, but if you ask me you have to confront your addiction. Accept that you have an addiction: it’s the first hard step in the process.
The reason you haven’t stopped your addiction yet might be because it doesn’t affect the people around you. While that is entirely wrong, I can understand why some believe this. Addictions usually concrete an inner wall between you and whoever you talk to. The more time you spend smoking is going to be the less time you talk to your family. It’s a simple trade off that usually does not work well for the person with the addiction.
Do you think you are fine?
If you have a problem, you have a problem! There is absolutely no way around it, no “but”, “and”, or “or” will stop you from having an addiction. The longer you go without thinking you have a problem, the father away it is from reaching your destination of sobriety.
Someone needed to give you a reality check. I said in the post The Winner that “Living life from the backseat unfortunately is not the way we can live our lives successfully.” By thinking you don’t have an addiction you are living your life from the backseat. Step up your performance. You are better than your addiction!
How can you be supportive of friends and family?
You probably wouldn’t enjoy being tormented by people you love because of your addiction. So do how you would like to be treated barring you were in this situation. You would love your children to be loving of you even in the worst times. If your friend or family member is not making a life change, hint (not too rudely, please) that they need to.
Addicts are not bad people, they just have made the wrong decisions. You don’t want to be the next person to make the wrong decision. The problem is schools and programs are devoted to making sure that you don’t have a problem with drugs, alcohol and smoking. What makes it even worse is that kids get suckered in by peer pressure and have to deal with there addiction because of others. Knowing that something could possibly be an addiction for you means that you shouldn’t even bother testing it out. If you have an addiction, knock it out today!
Sal | October 2nd, 2008 at 11:24 am #
I completely agree. When I quit my addictions, the first step that I had to take was, like you said, coming to terms with the fact that I did have a problem. Then I had to find a creative way to change my habits. Most of the time, from what I have seen with myself, I get addicted, then it becomes more or less a habit which needs to be changed. All it takes is 21 days to create a new habit. That’s it…3 weeks. I made a deal with myself that after 3 weeks I would treat myself to something nice (but not the habit that I just broke) and from there on would not look back.
Great post! I enjoyed it emensly.
sharon | October 2nd, 2008 at 4:09 pm #
This is a very informative post. Funny enough, addictions are only associated with drugs or smoking. of course there is many more addictions and as we all know addictions can be very crippling. Thanks for taking the time to write this up and will be back for more.
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