Do you still think that the only real sex pill is called Viagra? Chinese believe they have something better – Yin Yang Huo or Horny Goat Weed, a marvelous herb.

Horny Goat Weed has been used as an aphrodisiac for hundreds of years, and research has also proven its effects on improving sexual desire and performance.
Its scientific name is Epimedium or Yin Yang Huo in chinese but it is also called as Barrenwort, Bishop's Hat, Fairy Wings, Inyokaku, or Horny Goat Weed.
Epimedium is a genus of about 60 or more species of herbaceous flowering plants in the family Berberidaceae.

One of the primary physiological effects of Epimedium is the dilation of blood vessels, allowing hormone-boosted blood to reach sensitive tissues. By expanding the circulatory systems blood vessels, Horny Goat Weed also lowers the blood pressure.

According to Chinese this clears the body from weariness and increases energy level while nervous stimulation is enhanced as the brain is supplied with hormone-enriched blood.

Because of these properties Horney Goat Weed has also been used successfully to treat coronary heart disease, asthma, bronchitis, and sinusitis.

Although epimedium has been successfully applied in treatments for disorders of the liver, kidneys, joints, knees and back, it was mainly used as an aphrodisiac in Asian medicine. According to legend, this property was discovered by a Chinese goat herdsman who noticed sexual activity in his flock after they consumed the weed. Apparently at this time the plant was crowned with a straightforward nickname: Horney Goat Weed.

Like Viagra, icariin, the active compound in Epimedium, inhibits the activity of PDE-5 allowing enhanced blood circulation in penis tissues. A study found 15 of 20 healthy men responding positively to Horney Goat Weed, and for 7 of the 15 men already on Viagra also had a positive effect from using Horney Goat Weed.

Like many natural herbal aphrodisiacs, Horney Goat Weed has been researched over a long period of time and its benefits have been in use for thousands of years.
While the western world's magic blue pill offers immediate results for impotence symptoms, for Epimedium takes a bit longer to achieve the desired result, but provides longer-lasting benefits. Not to mention that you can leave behind the fear associated with generic drugs.

Barclays Bank Chief Executive, Bob Diamond, said that he has imposed a “no jerks” rule for the U.K. bank. In an interview with The Times newspaper of London, Mr. Diamond said the rule applies to bankers considered to be prima donnas, those that are too greedy and too ostentatious, or failures as team players. Mr. Diamond went on to tell The Times, “If someone can’t behave with their colleagues and can’t be part of the culture, it doesn’t matter how good they are at what they do, they have to be asked to leave”. Does this imply that Barclays was comfortable with arrogant, self-serving jerks in the employee ranks before? Hopefully, it does not.

Small businesses should not underestimate the disturbance and discord a jerk employee can cause. However, smaller organizations are more likely to quickly identify outliers and weed them out before causing any permanent damage. Why? Jerks cannot hide for long. But, how can small business owners prevent hiring a jerk in the first place?

An effective interviewing technique helps avoid the “bad hire”, but it is also often undervalued, overlooked or disregarded. The best techniques always start with PREPARATION; prepare for the interview by identifying 3 to 4 questions within the following key job dimensions:

1. Teaming– Building win/win relationships with peers and others. Facilitating communication, conflict resolution, and group processing.
2. Flexibility – Championing change efforts. Helping others to adjust to and implement change.
3. Customer Satisfaction– Understanding customer needs. Generating enthusiasm for meeting customer needs and holding others accountable for meeting customer needs.
4. Focus on Results– Monitoring performance against plan to ensure that commitments are met. Balancing the needs of profitability with customer satisfaction and employee needs.
5. Interpersonal Skills– Able to use diplomacy in dealing with others. Able to effectively write and verbalize information in individual or group settings. Willingly cooperates and assists others.
6. Problem Analysis / Solving & Decision-Making– Analyzing and solving problems and making sound decisions.
7. Job Knowledge Aptitude– What technical or job-related skill sets does a candidate possess? How have they used them successfully in the past?

Have your questions typed out on paper with space afforded for taking notes on the candidate’s responses. Furthermore, creating a permanent template with defined questions will facilitate cross-comparison of potential employees. Therefore, with just a small amount of preparation and diligence throughout, the interview process will lead to more correct evaluations of potential new employees. Weeding out the jerks will be a piece of cake, and will save the small business owner time, money, and many future headaches.

Eclipta Albais the scientific name for a weed that grows in moist, tropical areas. It is one of the “herbs” used in Ayurvedic medicine for many maladies. Ayurveda is the holistic healing system of India. This healing system is places emphasis on the science of longevity and focuses on promoting good health throughout that longer life span. This holistic healing system is likely the oldest continuing healing system on the planet and is said to be at the core of all Asian medical systems.

Bringraj

Bringrajis the Indian name for eclipta alba and it can be used in powder, liquid or oil form. The entire plant, leaves and roots, is usable for some pretty amazing things. This totally natural substance is used in treating liver enlargement in addition to issues involving the gall bladder, spleen and other minor organs and areas inside the human body. Cirrhosis, bleeding and dysentery are also conditions that Ayurvedic medicine has been successful in treating with Bringraj. It is said that even hepatitis can be somewhat treated with it, though it is not touted as being a cure. Bringraj can be ingested as a powder or juice to help treat the symptoms of these conditions but it is not necessarily a cure for them. It helps to make the area of concern healthier and thus more able to combat the conditions that are causing the problems.

Eases Skin Conditions

This remarkable healing weed called Bringraj or eclipta alba can also be used to help ease the discomforts of some skin conditions. A paste can be made from the bringraj powder and applied directly to areas on the skin that are swollen and inflamed. It will reduce the swelling and any pain that may be associated with the inflammation. When applied to wounds, it will help the area heal more quickly and with less scar tissue formation. Skin conditions such as athlete’s foot, dermatitis and eczema are also treatable with the bringraj paste.

Great for Your Hair

Bringraj can be used for many hair conditions, too. One of the attributes of eclipta alba is that it nourishes and strengthens the hair shaft, making it look and feel healthier. It has natural rejuvenation properties so it can be used to treat baldness, hair loss and thinning quite well. One of the Ayurveda medical recommendations is to consume grams of the powder daily if you want to see intense positive changes in your hair. The substance can be made in an oil form and applied directly to the scalp to help treat baldness in both men and women.

A Treatment for Scorpion Stings and Anti-venom for Snake Bites

My research revealed that the leaves of the eclipta alba plant are used for treatment of scorpion stings in the areas where it grows naturally. The eclipta alba leaves are also used all over the world as an anti-venom treatment for some snake bites.

Eye and Ear Problems

The eclipta alba juice can be used in treating eye and ear conditions. My research revealed that conjunctivitis in the eyes can be treated with it and regular ear infections.

All in all, Eclipta Alba, or Bringraj if you know it by that name, seems to have some versatile and amazing healing attributes. It can dull aches and pains in various parts of the body, oil made from the plant can ease the pain of headaches naturally and the leaves can even be rubbed on the gums to reduce inflammation in the mouth. And, it does all of these things in a totally natural way – without the various and serious side affects that prescribed medication has. This is definitely a weed I need to have growing in my garden!

Weeds are a menace to all gardeners and particularly when your time is strictly limited so weed control is vital. We have better things to do than spend all our time weeding. The first task for any gardener establishing a low maintenance garden is to clear the ground of any perennial and annual weeds, and the second is to prevent their re-growth.

Any gardener who plants on land that has not been thoroughly cleared of an infestation of deep-rooted weeds will regret their idleness. A clean start before new planting is a must. This is hard work but necessary. Dig over the plot to a depth of around 12 inches, loosen the soil, and remove the tough weed roots. Use a Cornish shovel or a fork to sift through the soil. You must remove every scrap of plant root that you see because any fragments left behind will be a source of new weed growth, especially since these scraps of root will benefit from the soil being newly dug.

If you do not have time to do this yourself, hire someone who is completely trustworthy. If this job is done quickly and carelessly it will do more harm than good. As a safeguard, before digging up the roots, it is a good idea is to spray the ground with a total weedkiller (glyphosate) and allow its action to take effect before digging starts. This will reduce the likelihood of weed re-infestation through carelessness.

Removing the existing weeds is part of the weed control process but fresh weed seeds are all around and they will inevitably arrive in your garden. No matter how thoroughly you have cleared the ground birds, wind, pets and people will introduce new seed and contaminate your borders and beds. You must take preventative action and create conditions that make it difficult for such weed seeds to germinate and grow.

There are several ways to do this. You can cover part of the garden with a hard surface e.g. slabs or gravel. Another method is to crush-plant perennials so that any weed seeds are denied light. Packing in as many plants as possible will produce foliage that provides complete ground cover and suppresses weed growth. You can cover areas of exposed soil with a thick blanket of mulch. Apart from suppressing weeds, or making their removal easy, mulches benefit the plants they surround by allowing moisture to penetrate the soil while limiting its evaporation by providing a barrier between the soil and the air.

Despite your best efforts to control weeds a few will survive and will have to be weeded out manually or dealt with using a chemical weedkiller. There are different types of weedkiller that act on the plant foliage. There is also a type of weedkiller, known as pre-emergent, that acts on bare ground, suppressing any weeds that attempt to break through the surface of the soil.

If you follow these simple weed control steps you will successfully clear your garden of weeds and keep it weed free with the minimum of maintenance.

Affirmations are the new-age self help technique used to achieve pretty much anything you desire. Be you cynic or skeptic, the fact is that you wouldn’t have heard about affirmations if they didn’t work.

The second interesting fact about affirmations is that some people swear by them and use them in their everyday life, whereas others have had such poor success with them that they actually dislike the word and any association to them at all.

Let’s look at what affirmations are and how we can use them to help us to quit smoking marijuana.

Affirmations are positive statements that are written or spoken out loud in present tense. An example of an affirmation is…

“I am happy, harmonious, loving, eager and excited”

It isn’t stated in the past or in the future. It is set in the NOW.

NOW is all that exists. The past is in the past and the future is in the future. Right NOW is all we have. For affirmations to be effective you must believe them. And the best way to believe them is to repeat them often. In fact, you must repeat them so often that they become second nature to you… They must become so familiar to you that you actually believe them. And when you really do believe them your subconscious mind will accept these as truths and start to yield the expectation to you.

Sounds simple, right?

Yes! They are simple but HIGHLY EFFECTIVE.

The most effective way to use affirmations to quit smoking pot is to make up some positive statements in language that you use regularly. Make the affirmations as real as possible to you and in a present tense. They must be so real to you that you must start to trick yourself into believing that they have already happened.

Here is an affirmation to help you get started at quitting weed:

“I have no habits which control or influence me in any harmful way. I am in control of myself and everything that I do. I always do what is best for me, myself, and my future.”

Blanket weed is an extremely invasive form of algae growth that if left unchecked will choke your pond starving it of oxygen and eventually killing any pond life you may have in the pond. Once you have an infestation it is quite hard to eradicate although there are some preventative measures.

If you discover blanket weed in your pond one of the best forms of attack is to place a stick or garden fork in the blanket weed twiddle it around so the blanket weed wraps around the implement and then remove from pond (this can also be done by hand).

 

If you place the removed weed near the pond any little creatures trapped in the weed will be able to crawl back into the water. Discarded blanket weed is an excellent addition to your compost heap!

 

Garden Centres and Pond Centres do sell purpose made small bales of barley straw that can be placed in the pond and this can help prevent re-growth.

 

Blanket weed is more often than not a problem with new ponds where the eco system is yet to mature. Useful additions to your pond could include plenty of oxygenating weed and some surface cover plants like water hyacinths and water lilies.

 

If your pond is subject to lots of direct sunlight try shading it with large leaved plants of rigging up some sort of manmade shade such as a pagoda, this will help slow down the algae growth.

 

If you wish to try a chemical methods there are several chemicals available that you can add to your pond some on a weekly basis but these will need to be monitored very carefully to avoid an imbalance in the water.

 

Once your pond has become established you will find that infestations of blanket weed will become fewer and fewer and you will have that wonderful pond that can be enjoyed by all.

Lord Krishna, assured that in every Mega Age (Yug) He would take the avatar Incarnation) on Earth to annihilate the evil, punish the guilty, to protect the righteous and establish Dharma. In other words, in every age, He would set right the disorder and establish order. This age is known as ‘Kalyug’ (dark age). In 21st Century, the disorder is at its peak. It is high time the Lord take Kalki avatar as assured by Him and restore order. (‘Kalki’ avatar is the tenth and the last avatar when God would visit on a horse with a sword on hand). Accordingly God comes to the Earth for doing His duty. But what is the result? This story depicts in a humorous way the problems God Himself will face should he come to Earth. This story is fully a political satire and not to hurt the religious sentiments of people belonging to any religion whatsoever.

The Story:

The greatest scandal of the twentieth century! A sum of whopping billions of rupees was swindled in a poor country on Earth. Hence, one may guess the toil of millions of poor labourers and tax payers behind that wealth. The loot extended from mining beneath the Earth, to scandals in purchase of aircraft and weapons used on the surface of Earth. There are several stories depicting life in Three Worlds, one on the surface, one beneath the Earth and the other on the sky. It seems our corrupt people realised all the three worlds by extending their corrupt practices in all the three.

The author of this mega scandal was Ramsingh, one of the most powerful politician of the country. Though he was never in election game nor held any post, each elected Government would have his influence on it because the candidates depended on the billions he spent for their winning the elections. The same may be told about industries, trade and commerce and of course film production. Only the actors and actresses who have his recognition could be the successful performers in filmdom.

Normally, before retiring to bed he used to offer prayers to the Almighty. That day also, he was offering his prayers. “Oh God! I have to thank you for enabling me to earn this much wealth. Nobody on Earth can surpass my wealth’.

He could have stopped with this observation. But his next statement was very much provocative. “Oh God! Now I am richer than you. Even you cannot surpass me”.

That moment God decided to interfere. “Why can’t I?” He asked.

Ramsingh was taken aback. He took the revolver kept under the pillow and asked “Who is speaking? Come to the front, otherwise I will shoot you”.

“No, No don’t shoot me” God pretended as if he was afraid.

“Then come before me. I want to see you”

Next moment God, whom he was praying daily, appeared before him.

“Pooh! Are you God? Our film heroes are better looking than you” Ramsingh remarked.

“Is it, Are your film heroes more handsome than me?” God asked.

“Yes, yesterday I saw a film in which Lord Krishna was so handsome that people worshipped him in the hall itself. They won’t recognise you as God.”

For a moment, God had some calculations mentally, then he told, “But he is mortal and will die at any time, whereas I am immortal.”

“So what? Let him live for only thirty years. He has enjoyed everything on Earth. Do you know that he has dozen wives, all so beautiful? Your Heavenly ladies are no comparison to those ladies,” Ramsingh replied.

“Okay, if you think that having beautiful girls is the Bliss, I won’t argue.”

“It is alright, tell me the purpose of your visit”

“I have come here to annihilate you,” God said seriously.

“What? Are you kidding me?” Ramsingh took it as a joke and laughed.

“Yes, so far I took nine avatars and established order. This is my tenth and last. This time, I wish to annihilate one by one and I have chosen you as the first to be eliminated”.

“Why me? There are so many giants worse than me.” He quipped.

“Financially speaking, there are several giants worse than you. But you have committed other offense like murders, rape in abundance. The worst of them was you poisoned your friend to usurp power and after his death you placed your own henchmen in various posts and you have you have deceived billions of people. Be ready to die”. The avatar raised hands to get his weapon (the revolving wheel on his hand.)

For a moment Ramsingh was taken aback. But he was able to recover within seconds and asked, “Oh God, please be patient. Please allow me to ask some questions”

“Okay, you proceed”

“My most respectful God Narayana, had you wanted to punish me you could have done it without showing your presence. But you are giving your Darshan to me which is available only for one in a billion. That shows that I have done some good deeds also. Isn’t it?”

“It is not because of the good deeds done by you, but by your forefathers including your parents. They were feeding thousands of poor, they opened several schools for free learning and constructed several free mansions. They dug hundreds of wells for obtaining pure water. The proceeds of their good deeds ended today. From now onwards only effects of your sins will reach your descendants”

“Oh, God! Every day I used to pray you without fail. One more thing, I used to give a share to you at twenty percent of what all I earned in black”

God was astonished. “What?”

“Yes, I am not bluffing. You yourself verify my accounts. If I get rupees ten, I will give you rupees two. Likewise, if I get one hundred million, I shall deposit scrupulously twenty millions into your temple hundi”(collection box)

“Is it..?”

“Don’t you know that the sanctum in the new temple constructed for you was financed totally by me. I spent nearly a billion rupee for that temple out of the profit I earned through the above transaction which people prefer to call as mega scandal.

God was speechless for a moment.

Ramsingh realised that he was going in the right direction. By this time, he had gathered enough courage to bargain.

“Okay God, let us talk business. Don’t kill me. Allow me to give you a share of half of what all I earn. That is fifty-fifty. I will sincerely put 50% of what all I earn into your temple collection box. Are you happy?”

Before his completing the statement God vanished.

“Oh God, Maha Vishnu, Narayana” he shouted.

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“Oh dear, why are you shouting?” his wife who rushed to his bed room shook him to raise from the sleep.

‘Dear, do you know that I was talking with God?”

“Oh it is good, what were you talking with him?” she asked sarcastically.

“Ha, Ha, he wanted to kill me” he was laughing.

“Then what did you do?”

“I offered him fifty percent of my earning, He ran away fearing that he also would become corrupt”

He was having a hearty laugh over the dream he had.

Suddenly there was a great noise.

“Oh what is that?”

The Earth started shaking and the ground below him was divided into two.

Ramsingh, his family, all wealth fell into thousands of fathoms deep.

Next day a telecast from far away country stated:

“Due to a massive earth quake in the poor country, an entire city was plunged into the deep Earth. Thousands of men, women and children were buried. Buildings including huge structures like Temples were buried. Please wait for the complete report”

God has his own way for punishing the sinners.

How do you know if you are hooked on smoking grass? I remember back in the days when I was smoking pot I often kidded myself I wasn’t addicted and that I could easily give it up at any time. Fortunately I did actually manage to quit smoking weed, but not after a lot of heartache and plenty of soul-searching. However one thing I discovered along the way was there were certain habits or things I did that should of acted as a warning sign to reveal that I was addicted.

1) The first warning sign is that you find yourself smoking more and more weed. Perhaps you only used to smoke one or two joints every now or the odd bowl at the weekend, but now you can’t make it through the day without smoking at least three or four reefers.

2) Would you say that your smoking habit has had an impact on your social and work life? Do you find yourself withdrawn from friends constantly making excuses not to go out, and stay indoors in favour of smoking some weed? Have you become lazy and even stopped doing the things that you used to love doing the most?

3) Not only are you smoking more weed on a daily basis, you have to consume far more just to get that stoned feeling or high! Whereas a few months back smoking one joint gave you a buzz and inadvertently knocked you out for a few hours, you now find yourself constantly chasing that buzz and smoking spliff after spliff with no real effect? (or just making you tired)

4) Do you find that when you don’t have the opportunity to smoke or if you are having trouble getting hold of some weed that panic almost sets in? You find that you are becoming restless and are in turmoil over where your next joint is coming from.

5) Do you find that you’re regularly thinking about getting high? You can’t seem to go through the day without thinking about when you will smoke your next joint and the thought of quitting weed never even entered your mind.

If any of this sounds familiar, then marijuana or pot certainly has a hold on you and your life. If all of the above points are something that you recognize in yourself then I’m sorry to tell you that the likelihood is you are addicted. No matter what you tell yourself, life will never feel any better until you finally decide to quit smoking weed. You know it, I know it, but are you willing to do anything about it?

Epimedium is also known as Horny goat weed, Rowdy Lamb herb, Barrenwort, Bishop’s Hat, Fairy Wings and Yin Tan Huo.

Epimedium is a hardy perennial that is native to southern China but can also be found growing in the rest of Asia as well as parts of Europe. Most of the 60 species with the Epimedium genus display four petal flowers in the spring that are described as spider like. In some species the petals produce long spurs which are much greater in size than the sepals. This gives the plant an inverted crown shape of the flower thus lending the moniker “Bishop’s Hat”. The plant is a popular garden plant in China and Japan and has become recently better known in the West.

Uses:

• Aphrodisiac
• PDE-5 inhibitor
• Antioxidant
• Antidepressant
• Cognitive enhancer
• Osteoblast stimulator
• Aphrodisiac

Epimedium has long been valued for its properties as a powerful aphrodisiac. It even got its name: “Horny goat Weed” from a legend that a Chinese goat herder once discovered how randy his flock became after eating the purported weed. It has been sold as a health supplement alone or blended with other supplements as it is in the Zenerect: the natural way to achieve rock hard erections.

Science has recently backed up the speculation of epicedium’s ability by revealing the plant active ingredient as the flavonol, icariin. Like the synthetically produced drug sildenafil (Viagra) icariin has been shown to help increase levels of nitric oxide and to inhibit PDE-5 activity. These two actions help smooth penile muscle tissue which causes more blood flow to the penis allowing for harder and longer lasting erections. In fact according to one recently published Italian study, icariin has been shown to be more specific in the up regulation of genes that are associated with nitric oxide production than sildenafil.

Icariin has also been shown to mimic the effects of testosterone which might also explain why epimedium is so popular as an aphrodisiac since increased testosterone can help improve strength and vitality leading to longer bouts of love making. Animal studies have shown promise of this flavonol as an antioxidant, antidepressant, memory enhancer and as a possible therapeutic agent for the treatment of osteoporosis.

Where to find Epimedium

Epimedium is available is many forms including raw herb, pill, tablet and capsule. It is also one of the main active ingredients in the male enhancement pill: Zenerect.

While the debate over marijuana, legality, health benefits and negatives rages on there are many people who are in strife who care little for all these arguments because they are addicted to weed and what the masses decided about the drug matters little when your own personal life is falling apart due to addiction which is a separate point completely to all the others. If you are one of these people and are looking for tips on how to quit smoking weed then first I encourage you to shut out all of the pro and anti marijuana campaigners because your struggle is a personal one not just with marijuana but with a psychological addiction which only has tenuous links to the particular thing you are addicted to.

This does not mean that there are not specific things you need to know about marijuana in this but it all must center around your personal struggle and not all the side bullshit that goes on to do with pot. To quickly summarize what you may need to know about cannabis is this:

• Marijuana is not physically addictive like other drugs that have chemicals in them that you can become dependent on, while you can suffer from withdrawal symptoms such as insomnia, vivid dreams, irritability, mild nausea and so forth by scientific measures pot is not a drug you can be physically dependent on.
• Addiction is a mental disease that makes you believe you need something whether it be a drug or a behavior like gambling or sex. With Marijuana the mixed messages about the drug confuse people on what is addiction and what is dependence, if you are struggling to quit smoking weed you are addicted.
• To confuse matters more many people who are dependent on a drug like heroin are also psychologically addicted in a double whammy that is terrible. This leads to a perception that pot is the same when it should be treated quite differently.

What this boils down to is that you CAN quit smoking weed but only if you treat this as a personal addiction that you can overcome by changing yourself and not blaming the drug first and foremost. This is not to lessen the deep pain, anxiety and helplessness that may come from living with an addiction at all nor is it to trivialize the task of climbing out of this pit of despair either as the demons of the mind are the cruelest and most punishing of all. These tips on how to quit smoking weed are just a way to set a framework you can use to realign the way you think which aids in the all important aspect of willpower which is the only real way to move beyond an addictive habit.

Quitting Smoking Pot is a Choice

Sounds obvious doesn’t it? However by choice what I mean is a carefully considered choice, a choice based on the knowledge of the benefits of quitting weed and the negatives of continuing to smoking pot. This is not a whim, a quickly drawn line in the sand or a spontaneous vow based on anger or fear or a whole host of emotions that have led to your initial acceptance that smoking marijuana is becoming hurtful to you. Choice is saying “I choose not to smoke pot” rather than saying “I love pot but I need to quit”. This may sound like a whole lot of useless semantics to many however it is a proven psychological technique that the WAY we say things and the WAY we think of things effects the outcomes because language dictates more than a simple meaning but a whole host of other desires, excuses, fears and connotations when structured poorly. So make a choice to quit smoking weed and make it an informed choice.

Action Vs Reaction

The writer Rita Mae Brown once said “A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.” and this should be a quote written down and emblazoned in your memory because this is not only good advice for life but also in the case of addiction. How often do you take action to smoke a bowl compared to as a reaction? How often is the ritual of smoking pot coming from a reaction to something: A bad day, a fight with your partner, an inconsolable sadness or rage. How often does it come from a seeming NEED to get high and zone out, a compulsion brought on my troubles or by habit compared to perhaps what it was like early on when it was exciting and fun. Those that tally up way more on the reaction scale may find the reason behind the need for their addiction from the troubles that beset them and realize that the drug is just an escape and the problems behind it are what really needs to be solved. Some may find it easier to work on the reason behind the need first and others may take heart that a deeper understanding of your personal demons can give you the strength to quit smoking weed which will allow you to face those challenges with a clearer head and more success. This is action, control of your own life rather than a reaction to compulsion and external influences which is reaction and as the quote said makes you a slave to it and to marijuana in turn.

Plan

As you may have guessed I am a fan of the written word and the practical application of words on paper may be paramount here. The choice to actively seek a solution to your problems and a change in your life to quit smoking pot will propel you forward but how to do this comes down to planning, goals and motivation. The catch 22 of this is that when you are an addict sticking with a plan and keeping motivation and goals can be difficult and a single bad day can feel mix up all of this in your head and suddenly a single smoke does not seem so evil, then another and suddenly a week has gone before you realize it and the self loathing sets in. STOP! That is the direction you do not want to take and you know it! This is where ink can be a help if not your salvation because a psychological addiction is something in your mind, if you keep all your plans in your mind it is bounds to be influences by the negative thoughts that will plague you so why would you want the pure and good new ideas being corrupted there. My advice is to write things down, write down all the bad things about smoking pot, write down all the good things that will come from being weed free, write down you plan of attack whether it be quitting cold turkey or gradually limiting your smoking down to none at all. Write it down and keep it because those words do not change no matter how much your demands mess with your mind your pledge taken at your most insightful and enlightened point will always be there to set you back on the track you know you want to be on.

Persistence Outweighs Performance

Some people may have an easy time when quitting a marijuana habit but others may not, there are so many variables in this mix it is impossible to predict but there is one truth to it and that is that the end outcome of being free of your addiction is worth more than any failures you have along the way. Most people who try to quit any addictive behavior do not do so on their first try, nor their second and many more beyond that often. This is disheartening and depressing but it does not need to be if you do not want it to be. Every time you fall, every time you give in, every time you blunder on your goal to giving up weed you learn something new about yourself and about the world and each of those experiences is ammunition for the next fight. Victory goes to those who persist and learn and adapt and survive so when you call your performance on quitting into question remember it is not how easy it is, it is if you make it in the end and if you maintain the drive despite the pitfalls that will ensure your success.