Time to trade that Dr in!
Quitting a habit
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Ah, but it's soooo delightful to sneak a hand full of peanut M&Ms!
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For me it was just a matter of making my mind up to quit. BUT that required a near life altering experience.
I use to drink a lot of beer when I was younger. Never really got violent and my wife claimed she couldn't tell any difference in my demeanor when I was drinking. One weekend I added a party on top of my regular drinking. There was a guy trying to pick fights with everybody there and when he got around to my BIL I intervened. He pulled a knife on me but didn't strike. I went to my car and he followed until I pulled a weapon out of the glove compartment then he retreated. At that point I collected my thoughts and went on home. I was self employed at the time and the next day I was too hung over to open my shop. Between the near death experience and the guilt of not going to work I made my mind up to quit. Did it cold turkey and never drank or wanted another drink from that day on.
I also smoked unfiltered camel cigarettes for 40 years. Came home from work one day and got a burning pain in my chest and broke out into a cold sweat. I called my wife and asked her to call 911 since I didn't feel like talking. By the time they arrived I felt better but they insisted on taking me to the hospital. The cardiologist talked me into letting him do exploratory surgery. He found 3 clogged veins and put stents in. I never smoked or wanted another cigarette.
The moral is, don't wait to have a near death experience. I got lucky in both cases but either event could have been the end of my life. I feel so much better now than I did in my 40s and 50s. I wish I would have never seen any alcohol or cigarettes.
I use to drink a lot of beer when I was younger. Never really got violent and my wife claimed she couldn't tell any difference in my demeanor when I was drinking. One weekend I added a party on top of my regular drinking. There was a guy trying to pick fights with everybody there and when he got around to my BIL I intervened. He pulled a knife on me but didn't strike. I went to my car and he followed until I pulled a weapon out of the glove compartment then he retreated. At that point I collected my thoughts and went on home. I was self employed at the time and the next day I was too hung over to open my shop. Between the near death experience and the guilt of not going to work I made my mind up to quit. Did it cold turkey and never drank or wanted another drink from that day on.
I also smoked unfiltered camel cigarettes for 40 years. Came home from work one day and got a burning pain in my chest and broke out into a cold sweat. I called my wife and asked her to call 911 since I didn't feel like talking. By the time they arrived I felt better but they insisted on taking me to the hospital. The cardiologist talked me into letting him do exploratory surgery. He found 3 clogged veins and put stents in. I never smoked or wanted another cigarette.
The moral is, don't wait to have a near death experience. I got lucky in both cases but either event could have been the end of my life. I feel so much better now than I did in my 40s and 50s. I wish I would have never seen any alcohol or cigarettes.
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If you are not a groupie, like doing things on your own, acceping all responsibility and excercising YOUR OWN, POWER, don't care for the religious spin in the background, and are "thinking" oriented, read the book "Rational Recovery".
Not only did I find the methodology effective for me, but certain very helpful concepts (people who can't leave labels alone, would nowadays call them "tools") stick with you for life.
Not only did I find the methodology effective for me, but certain very helpful concepts (people who can't leave labels alone, would nowadays call them "tools") stick with you for life.
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I ate 38 pounds of dark chocolate covered tart cherries in the past 6 months. Time to buy some more. 
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This sounds like something I'd love - are they handmade or where do you buy them?I ate 38 pounds of dark chocolate covered tart cherries in the past 6 months. Time to buy some more.
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South Bend Chocolate factory occasionally has factory rejects in a large cardboard box. Their normal prices are around $19 a pound. The factory rejects are less than $3.00 a pound. They look funny, but taste great! I've eaten 3 of those boxes in the past 4 years, so over a hundred pounds. The boxes are usually 35-40 pounds. I've picked them up for as cheap as $20 and as much as $60 a box, but still, that's a great price. I split them up into quart zip lock bags and freeze them. Pull a bag out every week or two and om nom nom!!
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As far as giving up a habit, January 1 0f 2020 I gave up using my car horn in anger for a New Year's resolution. It lasted about 6 days. So I started over. Lasted a couple weeks. Started over, lasted a little longer. Took many months but I have maintained control and go way longer between outbursts.
I still cuss at folks, but don't punctuate it with a horn blast.
I guess as any habit you want to break, you have to want to break it and work at it if tempted, and resolve yourself to keep trying for the right reasons.
My right reason is I don't want to get shot at a roundabout.
I still cuss at folks, but don't punctuate it with a horn blast.
I guess as any habit you want to break, you have to want to break it and work at it if tempted, and resolve yourself to keep trying for the right reasons.
My right reason is I don't want to get shot at a roundabout.
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We need to crowd fund you a "FREEWAY BLASTER" Horn. Having a little horn only makes one more angry!
As for manifesting our reality. People do it incorrectly all the time and it works just like it should. "WANTING" something. More money, loosing weight, quitting simething always gives them just that. A Life of "WANTING" that and never getting it.
As for manifesting our reality. People do it incorrectly all the time and it works just like it should. "WANTING" something. More money, loosing weight, quitting simething always gives them just that. A Life of "WANTING" that and never getting it.
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I realized at one point that horns are pretty much useless - if I had time to use one, I pretty much didn't need to use it and using it could just get me in trouble. Take evasive action, and think about what a miserable person the other driver is that they behave how they do and feel smugly superior. Makes me feel better...I gave up using my car horn in anger [...] My right reason is I don't want to get shot at a roundabout.
[unless someone's parked at a stop sign/light, or very gradually drifting in their lane... in the first case, I have time, and they need to wake up; in the second case, they really need to wake up, and I can't decide if I'm better in front of them where they may end up rear ending me or behind them where I'm behind their crash later]
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