We tell ourselves it will get done eventually, some time, maybe later, when? I’ve taken many courses in dealing with stress and procrastination. The course that was missing? The one course I REALLY needed?

How to try or do something, possibly screw it up, forgive myself and move on!

I discovered, that I didn’t always screw up, sometimes the effort was better than if I agonized about it, wanted it perfect, waited for the prefect moment, etc. I’ve done more work, accomplished and created more in that half hour before I had to leave the house for some unrelated appointment.

Yeah! That’s right. I had to just GET IT DONE! But wait, until you need to leave the house, the office or the studio. In those last few minutes, you may even finish a task you thought so large it would never get done.

Another thing. A list works well for some people but for some of us, we begin to AVOID the list or the desk.

I’m meeting some friends for dinner now, but I just wrote the outline for a new presentation. It was something I had put off for too long. Now, it’s done.

Shawn M. Nichols

Later, I'll do it later.

So you think taking drugs is only hurting you!! What do you know!!

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Violence towards friends and partners is rising – and most of it has to do with drug use and abuse. The bad effects can be as simple as physical injuries but includes fear, post-traumatic stress and depression which for a victim can lead to homicide, suicide or a continuation of the violence (Archer, 2000, Hines, Malley-Morrison, 2001).

Back From Addiction, and Sharing the Lessons

By LAURIE BESDEN; As Told to PATRICIA R. OLSEN
Published: March 23, 2008, New York Times

But I was addicted to Vicodin, a prescription medication for pain relief, and was taking up to 50 pills a day. In feeding my habit I broke the law and went to jail and had my law license suspended. For the last three years, I’ve been working my way back, thanks to two law partners who have given me a chance. I hope to have my license to practice law in Pennsylvania reinstated one day.

I think I had addictive tendencies even as a child. When I would get codeine pills for tooth pain, I’d save a few for a rainy day. I even asked my dentist for laughing gas for a cleaning. A month before I was to graduate from law school, I found some Vicodin at the house of a friend whose father was in the medical field and took a few sample packs. No one even noticed they were missing.

Studies Find Genetic Link To Smoking

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: April 3, 2008

Scientists say they have pinpointed a genetic link that makes people more likely to become hooked on tobacco, causing them to smoke more cigarettes, making it harder to quit and leading more often to deadly lung cancer.

The discovery by three separate teams of scientists makes the strongest case so far for the biological underpinnings of the addiction of smoking and sheds light on how genetics and cigarettes join forces to cause cancer, experts said. The findings also lay the groundwork for more tailored treatments to quit smoking.

”This is kind of a double-whammy gene,” said Christopher Amos, a professor of epidemiology at the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and author of one of the studies. ”It also makes you more likely to be dependent on smoking and less.

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Do drugs make us do bad things or are we predestined to do bad things? Drugs like alcohol reduce our inhibitions. What our friends see – is it the real us or a new personality?

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Let’s face it…most people are just lazy and could stop if they wanted to. I know a few friends who didn’t let their drug use become and addiction. If they can do it anyone can!! Why not?

The medical community now makes a careful theoretical distinction between physical dependence (characterized by symptoms of withdrawal) and psychological dependence (or simplyaddiction). Addiction is now narrowly defined as “uncontrolled, compulsive use”; if there is no harm being suffered by, or damage done to, the patient or another party, then clinically it may be considered compulsive, but to the definition of some it is not categorized as “addiction”. In practice, the two kinds of addiction are not always easy to distinguish. Addictions often have both physical and psychological components.

from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addiction