Smoking
The Real Reasons Not to!
So you are working more hours that anyone else you know, you have your spouse doing the same, you never see each other, and yet you are broke. Not that is a recipe for frustration. Let’s face it you are a failure, you will never amount to anything and life just sucks. There is only one thing left to do. Quit that’s right, go ahead and quit trying. You have my permission, after all isn’t that what you are really looking for anyway. Someone else to blame. Well now, you have it. Now you can sit down were you are knowing that it is some one else’s fault that you can’t make it light up a cigarette and continue the process of killing yourself legally.
Now you figure I am going to harp on you about smoking….guess again! I spent way too many years of my life living like the person I just described above to do that. I will however say this; while I was under the above mindset, I was doomed to continue the failing ways that had proceeded to get me nowhere up to that point. And while I still have a long way to go, it wasn’t until I began to live my life as someone that isn’t looking for a quick exit from this world, and someone who actually believes that he can make a difference that my life started to take a turn for the better. I get up now looking to the future full of dreams, hopes, and aspirations know that every day brings me a little closer to my complete freedom and ongoing success. That is the real reason not to smoke because it is associated with all the other in your life that you are trying to leave behind and every time you light up you tell yourself once again, I don’t believe any of this can happen for me so what’s the use in trying.
As I mentioned in a previous article How not to succeed the mind is a powerful tool and will always do it’s best to give you what you want the most. The problem is that we assume that what is best for us is automatically going to be what we want the most. This just isn’t true. We are usually too caught up with trying to feel ok about our self that our mind is using all of its resources to maintain that at the expense of what we really need it to do. As a result, we feel worse and try harder ever continuing to spiral downward. If on the other hand we stopped to look at the underlying causes of the things we do (as I did above with smoking) then we would start making changes to things that our mind would be correcting in assuming are both what we want most and what is best for us.