Do any of you... And I mean any of you...

...think to protect yourself from youself?

Like protect yourself from you making future mistakes? Like protect yourself from bad health by making it a point not to eat certain food products? Like protect yourself from having a break down, be it mental or financial? Like protect yourself from certain not so wise urges you get? Like protect yourself from having to be accountable to do jail time? Like protect yourself from coming across as some type of coward? Like protect yourself from accidentally blasting yourself when handling a firearm or even a firecracker? Like protect yourself from turning out to be just a fool? Etc.

How do you go about protecting yourself from what is all you or what would be all on you? How do you go about protecting yourself from a bad reckoning only you'd be responsible because of? Like what measures or train of thought do you have in place to bypass F'ing things up because of yourself?

 

I don't really have it figured out. I fuck things up for myself a lot.

 

This is a really good thread Tormentations. I have the hardest time with self control. I tend to do everything in excess. I am slightly over weight, I smoke way too much weed, and I spend my money pretty damn fast. I am really trying to work on all of this though. I have recently quit smoking cigarettes cold turkey (I don't even crave them now.) I'm trying to lose a few pounds but I am such a sloth its going to be hard. I guess the best way I try and control my self is to think about how I would like to see myself in the mirror and work towards that.

 

Just find out what you really truly want, that's the easiest way to implement "self control." All habits and indulgences are really filling in for some void in yourself created by something you are not achieving or feeling, like... hmm how should I explain? So many people say, "oh I want x" but what they really want is z, and they think x will achieve z, but what ends up happening is y, which achieves z more fully than x would have, you see? So people look in all the wrong places. Figure out what you want and then everything that isn't it will be pushed to the side. Do you really want junk food? Do you really want to smoke pot? Or are you distracting yourself from what you really want because you don't think you can get it? That's the other half of things, some things people do are just to fuck away time... because for some reason people are under the impression they have too much time, I should just shit it away with this cigarette habit, you see what I'm saying? Make every moment meaningful. Think about your intention for every action you make. What do I want to accomplish by doing this? What am I aiming for? IF the action does not align with what you want to accomplish, you shouldn't do it. Only when you align with yourself and your own intention can you be truly happy and satisfied. It can be difficult, but it is possible. In 2008 I weighed 270 pounds, now I am at approximately 153. I am very happily engaged to the woman of my dreams, my twin flame. I love every moment! Because I KNOW what I want, and that allows me to achieve it. Only you know what you want and only you can achieve it, and you can only achieve what you want when you KNOW what it is. You see? Remember each moment is as close to perfection as you allow it to be.

 

I should protect myself. I'm already in a pretty low situation, physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually, and financially. But I keep doing all the things I know I have to stop doing or I'm on my way to a very early death after a very pointless life. I really need to find the mother in me. Unfortunately, mine passed ten years ago. >_<

 

i have spent pretty much my entire life afraid of making mistakes. i find people afraid of making mistakes usually dont make much any anything else either. more recently i have been trying to get out of that phase, and get out there and make my share of mistakes. life is about the journey not the destination. this is something i have been struggling with for a long time now.