Not you, of course, but many people don't want to do the work required to solve their problems.

They want the fairy godmother to wave her magic wand and make the problems go away.

But that is not how life is.

To make the problem go away, often you have to change yourself first, and change is scary. 

Change is hard. 

Stasis, even if uncomfortable, is certain and known. 

It's less scary than the unknown and the possibility of failure.

But when the problem never gets solved, it remains, always seeking new shortcuts to feed your imagination. 

Shortcuts that make you feel that the problem is solved when it has only had the perception or possibility of being solved.

It's like when you decide to get fit and buy an exercise machine which folds up nicely to fit under the bed, where it stays gathering dust.

You could get it out and use it, but that means you have to do something and become a different person.

The type of person who exercises regularly.

The healthier person who you aspire to be if only you didn't have to do the work.

But you have an exercise machine, and you could do this anytime you like.

Until you set the goal, break it down into daily activities and do them every day.

That habit of doing the activity daily becomes your new habit and your new perception of yourself as someone who is fit and healthy.

This is the same process you follow to achieve anything that you want to achieve.

The only things you can guarantee in life is that things will change, and you will change anyway, regardless of if you choose to or not.

You are not the same person you were 20 years ago.

Since you are going to change anyway, you might as well make the changes you want rather than the ones that are impressed on you.
 

Regards,
Brent.

P.S.  I was asked about the other things I did to become a non-smoker.

There are two other components to being a smoker.

One of them is the automatic reach for a cigarette when you are in company or even when you see someone in a movie reach for a cigarette.

To break that habit, I used negative reinforcement.

A large rubber band on my wrist that I snapped when I caught myself reaching out.  That hurts.

The next thing is the nicotine response.

Smokers eat less because nicotine suppresses the appetite by neutralising the stomach acids.

I carried antacid tablets that I chewed when I had a craving for a smoke to manage that.

I used simple systems to break a habit of over 20 years.

Simple systems are the only way to break or create a habit, and if it's not simple, you won't do it.

Learn how simple it can be to manage an email list and write emails daily if that's what you choose to do. https://go.wm-tips.com/emails.

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