Self Help And Education Blog

Many people battle with addictions for significant portions of their lives and have a lot of difficulty overcoming these things called “addictions”. How do I know this? Well, not only because I hear about addictions in the media almost incessantly, but for the better part of 15 years I was addicted to both alcohol and cigarettes. I smoked cigarettes to the tune of at least a pack a day, and drank beer to the tune of at least a twelve-pack a day, so by my calculations, I was most certainly addicted. A little over a year ago, I walked away from both practices, and wanted to share how it is I did it.

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Oftentimes the only way to get what you really need is to give up what you already have.

It doesn’t seem to make sense but it’s true. This is a particularly difficult concept to pull off in such a materialistic world because our society uses money and material wealth as a measure of our value as people.

More people are up to their eyeballs in debt than at any time in our history. We are bombarded by advertising messages telling us that we need the latest new toy, gadget, shoes or designer jeans. We literally cannot escape the buy, buy, buy message. Everywhere we turn someone is trying to sell us something, trying to convince us that we aren’t good enough if we don’t buy whatever he or she is selling. And when the advertisers aren’t hammering home the you-are-nothing-without-the-latest-product message, the people around us make us feel inadequate if we aren’t wearing the right clothes, driving the right car, living in the right neighborhood, sending our kids to right school, even owning the right breed of dog.

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