Battling My Vices

Always on the path of continual self-improvement, I have finished updating my goals and tasks for the coming year. One of the things I am working on is getting rid of my addictions. For me, these “addictions” are vices or ways of thinking that have gotten out of hand, usually working against me in the long term, and in most cases operating automatically. This is a mandatory part of my next improvement and while I won’t list them here, I assure you there are more than I am comfortable with.

My studying advises me to look at when these occur, what initiates these practices, and how I feel when I unapologetically resort to them; before, during, and after. I already don’t feel guilty about them and have them well justified; both in terms of their relative lack of obvious harm and in my justification for indulging myself. My usual method is to move on to more important issues of which there are many. Now I am choosing to call them out and work to make changes with the expectation being incremental improvements in this area will have long-term, compounding effects on my future.

These are not my only goals, nor or they the only projects I am working on. I’m just paying more attention to offenses against my future that I have been perpetrating for years. I don’t expect this to be easy as I will, in effect, be battling myself. I am committed to being better overall, holding myself to a higher standard, and taking comfort and empowerment from the overall results.