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On Rerouting your Mind While Overcoming Addiction

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  When someone thinks of recovering from addiction, what probably comes to mind is rehabilitating physically and overcoming intense withdrawals to ultimately feel normal again. Or even taking the twelve steps to rethink and reroute life mentally and spiritually, inviting in a higher power to take the reins thrown away so long ago. While these might be true, nothing you read online or in a textbook about how addicts start recovery is as close to this: when addicts decide to recover nothing is worse than the intense desire they have to continue on the hunt for their next or last high. Imagine doing anything and thinking of nothing but your next high for months or years in end and then, finally, deciding you quit. While the want to quit is a huge motivation for many addicts, since we truly do know that we are harming ourselves and others going down a dead-end road, that urge to go after more is still there. It is the worse nagging and craving demon on your back imaginable and almost ...
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How to Set Smart Goals

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How to Set S.M.A.R.T. Goals (And Accomplish What You Want in Life) Chance are, you have dreams, a to-do list, and maybe even a rough list of goals. Or maybe you're a bit more organized and you have your goals divided up into days, weeks, months, and years. Even better, you've managed to cross off some of these goals because you've already accomplished them and you're heading on towards the next task at hand. If so, that's great. But, have you ever had goals and dreams that you have written down but never ended up crossing off, even to this day? If you have problems achieving what you want to accomplish in life, learning about how to set S.M.A.R.T. goals can help you finally make your dreams and goals come true.  What are S.M.A.R.T Goals? Significant Manageable Advantageous Rewarding Timely What does this mean in terms of accomplishing goals? Your goals should be  Significant  in that they will solve a problem, add substance to ...
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How to Procrastinate on Procrastination

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How to Procrastinate on Procrastination: Reasons we Procrastinate & How to Avoid it We all have lists of things we need or want to do and deadlines we should or would like to complete them in. How often is it that you fold that laundry after it's done instead of waiting until the dryer empties itself piece-by-piece by becoming a temporary dresser? It's a rare thing and we all know how much our lives would improve if we could  just learn how to stop procrastinating. Instead of checking off tasks from our to-do list and completing goals when we're supposed to do them, we talk ourselves out of our goals and do things we'd much rather be doing, like watching Netflix or browsing social media. But, how do we expect things to get accomplished if we're self-sabotaging ourselves before we even start?  The first thing we need to do is take a step back and think about why we're procrastinating in the first place.  We know what need to do and in what ...
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27 Lessons in 27 Years

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27 Lessons From 27 Years of Life (That I Wish Someone Had Told Me) You are your own hero.   You are the only person in your life that can save you. You have to be the one that pulls yourself up by your shoelaces and carries on when you'd rather give up, because no one else is going to be there for you like you will. As much as you want someone to pick you up and fix everything for you, the only person that can truly make that difference in your life is yourself.  Don't start "someday", start today.  Is there a new hobby you would like to try, a language to learn, or a marathon you'd love to run? Do you have a long list of goals that you keep telling yourself that you will "someday" do? Start today. If you want to run a marathon or learn a new language, take those first steps and learn those first words today. Tomorrow, add on to what you started with today and continue with those small steps everyday. Looking back a year from ...
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