MANIACS, ADDICTS AND 'HOLICS

How Much Can Buy You Off The Shelf.

If you were an item on the shelf of a store how much would you be worth? What price tag do you think the owner of the store would attach to you?

In the university, every student is given a grade point of 5 once they are admitted. But rarely does anyone graduate with a GP of 5. While that is exceptional, majority fall below 3.5- the borderline for second-class upper division. Why? They lost touch with their education.

At birth we all have 100% worth. That’s why everyone gathers to celebrate the birth of a new child. The hopes are up, the aspiration and expectations are high, everyone just naturally accepts that the child will be the greatest human that ever lived. But what happens afterwards? You can tell the remainder of the story.

Your personal value is a function of your relevance to the peculiar needs of people. A refrigerator is of no value to an Eskimo because it is not relevant to his needs, but the same Eskimo will be willing to pay as much for a boiling ring or a box of matches.

Addiction derails the mind from the proper course of reasoning and when you can’t think straight and constructively you cease to be relevant. Praise Fowowe defined addiction as “a distraction that side tracks you.” The sequence is this: get addicted, get side tracked; lose relevance, lose value.

Give up your addiction, mania, alcoholism or workaholic so you don’t get side tracked and ultimately lose value. Sincerely observe to see whether you are as valuable as you were before your addiction issues began. I doubt it. But note that value can be built as much as it can be depleted; in your own case it begins with giving up your addiction.

Bring It To Life

1.       Evaluate yourself: Are you better off now compared to how you were before the addiction issues? Are you satisfied with your life now? To what extent can others entrust valuable information, possessions and their selves to you?

2.       Your current value notwithstanding, decide to build your value beginning with giving up your addiction.

3.       Overcoming addiction is a process. Clearly write out a recovery plan stating a gradual depletion in the rate of frequency of your engagement in the habit with time frames. E.g. Sex everyday 1-week >> 3 times a week >> once a week >> once in 2 weeks >> once in a month >> once in 2 months >> once in 6 months >> once in a year >> stop.

Key points

1.       Addition is a distraction that sidetracks you

2.       If you are not relevant to meeting the needs of others, you are low in

value.