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Addiction to Blame
Allen consulted with me because his wife of 18 years had threatened to leave him if he didn't stop blaming her all the time. He admitted to frequently blaming her in a variety of situations. He blamed her if he thought she made a mistake, if he...
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Relationships with Abusive Narcissists - Part II
The Abuse
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Substance Addiction
Substance Addiction
By Punkerslut
[Author's Note: Written on Monday, December 26, 2005.]
There is no doubt that a substance problem can be the worst
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Techno-Stress: Six Survival Rules
You know you have techno-stress when you can't keep up with
newspapers and letters that arrive at work and home. Cell phones
ringing in restaurants make you want to scream and your workload
continues to mount as you are available 24 hours a day...
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I'm telling you man, this is a big dang deal
I'm not exactly a high-profile
guy.
You know, I pretty much like
my job, I pay my bills well
enough, and enjoy staying
pretty close to the house
on the weekends. But I'm not
really the guy who everybody
gathers around at parties,
you know what I mean? In fact,
if there was a party, I might
get invited alright, but probably
would end up just not going.
Hi, I'm Jim, and I'm an internet
addict. I'm a search junkie.
You know what I mean?; Search
Google Images for the name
"Bob" and you will get a look
at every dude named "Bob"
on the Western Hemisphere.
(Which is, incidentally, where
all the Bobs have ended up,
apparently...) Search the
word "foot" sometime, for
example. But be CAREFUL!!
You should know that image
searches often bring up medical
sites, and my brother (or
sis) there are some G-NARLY
"foot" disorders out there...
So I've warned you. It's out
of my hands now...
So anyway, in my obsessive
funk at 1:00 a.m. when I should
have been tucked warmly in
with my wife, I run across
this guy who calls himself
The Rich Jerk. Jerks are
kindof like train wrecks,
you know what I mean? Or like
car accidents on the interstate.
You don't want to look, you
know it's just going to slow
down traffic, but for some
stupid reason, you just have
to at least GLANCE, you know?
Or at least dang near break
your kneck trying not to.
So anyhow, I start reading,
an d he's absolutely right;
he certainly does come off
as a jerk, big time, but man,
I started reading up, and
this guy's definitely a jerk,
but he's doing something on
the low end (you know, like
small business) that big companies
have been doing on the internet
for a few years now, and he
wrote an ebook about it. I
did Youknowwhat-Way back in
the day, so I got a snoot
full in a hurry. Didn't do
jack for me. I'm a pretty
hard worker too, but it just
wasn't do-able for me. But
this whole thing with the
internet has apparently made
it so easy to buy stuff over
the net that people (businesses)pay
a little bit for each of those
little "click-throughs". The
Jerk (Sorry, The RICH Jerk...)made a
TON of change when he figured
out how to be one of the people
who owns one of those really
inexpensive little banners
that people "click-through"
(sorry for all the "quotes")to
buy that stuff. It's like
you don't have to even be
the one selling, you just
have the little link that
sends people, who are ALREADY
looking for whatever it is
they end up clicking on ANYWAY!
So I did it.
I know. "Hoser!", you say.
Yeah. Fine. But I'm telling
you, it's not only legit,
it's a freakin' pretty dang
big deal. It took me about
a day of figuring out what
some of the terminology meant,
I wasn't raised with computers
like most kids are now, and
there are still some things
I have to get my head around,
but I've been getting some
checks from Clickbank, and
I'm telling you, I may be
able to do it exclusively
if this keeps doing what it's
been doing, and more impertantly
than anything else to me,
I think my wife can quit working
soon. I'm not kidding, man.
Ok, yeah, you have to have
a computer, and you have to
learn some new stuff about
the internet but frankly,
I thought it was all pretty
interesting stuff anyway,
and at least I'm not trying
to sell soap or having all
my friends over to try to
sell them something so they
never speak to me again.
My checks are great and all,
and I can see them getting
bigger like very fast, but
you should see this guy's.
He has actual copies of his
statements on the site so
you can see them. And they're
not from selling the ebook.
I'm sure he'll make a lot
from that too, but most of
the stuff he tells you has
NOTHING to do with it. There
are ten things that he tells
you about, and they're all
so SOLID, man. Like he says
in his characteristically
"jerklike" way, you'd almost
have to be stupid not to be
able to at least make a little
of extra money, and when this
guys says a little, well,
his "little" and my "little"
are two different things.
Were, anyway.
I'm kinda glad I didn't get
this kind of thing in my twenties,
frankly. I wasn't totally
irresponsible or anything,
I was in the military so I
would have only gotten in
so much trouble, but I've
had to work pretty hard most
of my life. Think it's done
me a lot of good, frankly.
But it's pretty dad-gum cool
to go get a new scope for
my boy's rifle now if I feel
like it, you know?
And no, I'm not going to start
throwing money at him now
that I'm making extra money.
But maybe there'll be a few
bucks left over for him and
whatever family he has when
I finally keel-over, you know?
If you're interested, here's
how you find the guy and the
book:
Click here: The Rich Jerk
Now, I wasn't kidding. The
guy really is a jerk, so keep
that in mind if you check
out the site. Oh, I don't
know if he really is, I tend
to think people like that
are just probably tired of
trying to be nice when so
much of life would just work
a whole lot better if people
actually just got to the POINT,
you know?
Dang sure got my attention.
About the author:
James is a small business
owner who travels a lot. Likes
to hunt game, mostly squirrels
and such, with his son. Spends
most of his spare time sneaking
around eating junk food when
his wife's not looking...pretending
he's out buying parts for
the car...
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