Overcoming Addiction

Don’t Let Bad Posture Become a Habit

May 8, 2010

The other day I found a book, Living the Martial Way : A Manual for the Way a Modern Warrior Should Think, that said most people, by the time they are 30, have bad posture from years of sitting.

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Cure Your Cardio Addiction

April 16, 2010

There are few things that look as goofy to me as a human riding an exercise machine. One, it’s ironic to me that people pay to go to a place where they can do nearly the same thing outside (in fresh air) for free. Two, is the way people swear by doing this cardio thing. [...]

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How to avoid overdoing it at the first sign of progress

December 11, 2009

It’s tempting. If a little is good, more must be better. But it’s not.

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Cure Your Web Addiction

August 5, 2009

Check out this article about a web surfer’s death in China: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8185412.stm It’s about a teenage web surfing addict who got beaten to death while getting treatment for his addiction. First of all, it’s a totally senseless death. But secondly, I just can’t help being shocked at this line: However, there is little consensus on [...]

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Office Worker Addiction: Coffee

May 25, 2009

My Toastmasters mentor always reminds our club that confession is good for the soul. So I’ll say it: I have a coffee addiction. It’s not like I drink a pot a day—I just like to have one coffee a day. But I really like to have that cup of coffee! And I like to have [...]

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