We live with peer groups who are addicted to a range of new social norms [see photo].
The following is my cure for addicts who have the discipline, persistence, courage, and need to change their thinking, habits, and beliefs so they can live a better life. I have a 10 day course that you can take as a self-administered cure for your social addictions. So what follows here is a marketing pitch to you, from me, to invest in yourself and in the process leave some of your worst addictions behind you.
MINIMALISM
Who are you? Who can you be?
Those are two simple questions to pose and yet most of us offer answers that are uncertain, ambiguous, or complex. The reason is that neither question comes with a time dimension. Who are you right now? Who can you be right now? If we add a time dimension then those two questions become far more useful enquiries.
Imagine you have an addiction - alcohol, cocaine, heroine, sex - perhaps the thing you need to do is to enter a rehab facility. You need to ‘hang with’ people who do not tolerate your addiction. You also need to learn new habits so you will not fall back into your addictive ways. Finally, you need to adopt a new belief system that will help you to move beyond the addiction phase in your life.
Suddenly. You are ‘addiction free’. Now you have a different answer to the question ‘who are you?’ You also have a different answer to the question ‘who can you be?’
A month later… You are back living in the same house - with the same old crew - and you are doing many of the same things you did before you sloughed-off your addiction. Who are you now? You are likely to answer that question the same way you did before you entered your rehab program - you are an addict. Who can you be now? Your answer to that question is chilling - you can only ever be an addict.
However. You can answer both those questions in a different way once you understand that for some time - no matter how brief - you were not controlled by your addiction.
As you read this you may well be addicted to the ‘collective wants’ of your social cohorts, friends, and familial. This is ‘normal’ but it comes at a cost - like any other addiction. While you are kept busy chasing their ‘collective wants’ you are paying the hidden cost of neglecting your ‘individual needs’.
Richard Lipscombe
Prague, Czech Republic
To access my 10 day course go to minimal-you.com and hit the "Become a minimalist" button. The link will take you to a page that has a payment link. Good luck with your journey towards a collective wants free life.
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