The end of the year fills most men’s heads with new goals and dreams but sadly few do enough thinking, reenvisioning and rethinking. What if the activity before we leave 2025 is to become more instead of getting more by the end of this year point? I find it interesting how each year we get into the same rut — the pressure, the plan making, the promise making — but what a man’s life changes with is not what he resolves to do January 1st. It is what he resolves upon before the end of December 31st. Here are 10 things that you can do before we leave 2025 and plunge into the year 2026 with vigor, perception, and self-respect — the things backed up by the facts of science, wisdom and practicalities. 1. Audit Your Life, Not Just Your Year Before you set new goals, sit with your journal and ask: What drained my energy this year? What made me feel truly alive? This kind of reflection helps you align your direction with your truth. 📘 Inspired by : “ The Mountain Is You ” by B...
No one ever wakes up and says, “Today, I want to be addicted.”
But when life feels hollow, when your soul is hungry and you don’t know what it’s hungry for—you reach for something, anything.
That “something” becomes the addiction.
Not because it’s good, but because it’s there.
💡Main Idea
Addiction is not just a problem—it’s a message.
It’s your inner self screaming: “I need something deeper. Something meaningful.”
Whether it’s porn, reels, junk food, or dopamine hits from endless scrolling—we don’t get addicted because we’re weak.
We get addicted because there’s a void inside, and we haven’t yet found a better way to fill it.
🧩 Understanding the Root
📌 People actively choose to engage in addictions.
The phone, the game, the drugs, the liquor —it doesn't chase you.
You go to it.
The real question is: Why do you go to it?
📌 At the core of most addictions is purposelessness.
When you don’t know what you’re living for, anything can feel like something.
📌 What’s missing isn’t control—it’s a compelling purpose.
A mission so meaningful that it naturally pulls you out of shallow habits.
“You don’t rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.”
—James Clear, Atomic Habits
🌟 How to Heal the Inner Void
Instead of fighting the addiction itself, ask:
What is this trying to give me? And what can give me that in a better, higher way?
Here’s what helps:
• Bring something noble and beautiful into your life—a purpose, a craft, a deep connection
• Use your energy for something higher than just momentary pleasure
• Understand that joy is not the same as pleasure
• Pleasure often clouds the mind
• Joy is clear, still, and powerful—it comes from clarity and truth
📚 As Osho says, “Addiction is your desperate attempt to escape your inner desert.”
📚 In The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle, he reminds us:
“Addictions begin with pain and end with pain. Presence dissolves both.”
✨ Spirituality Isn’t Just Rules
True spirituality isn’t about saying no to Addiction.
It’s about saying YES to your deepest need—the need to feel alive, grounded, and fulfilled.
• It's not about following a religion or belief system.
• It’s about having a thrilling adventure of seeking what is most beautiful and highest within you.
You are an infinite being. So why settle for something small?
🔦 Personal Reflection
There have been nights I couldn’t sleep—not because of stress, but because of restlessness.
A hollow silence would crawl in. I’d grab my phone, scroll, binge, escape.
But nothing ever worked.
Until I started reading, writing, walking in silence—moving toward truth instead of away from pain.
That’s when the healing began.
🎁 Your Challenge Today
• Sit with yourself for 5 minutes. No phone. No noise.
• Ask, “What do I truly need?”
• Replace one addictive habit with one conscious action:
• A walk
• Reading one page
• Calling someone you respect
• Writing in a journal
“Nothing is stronger than a broken man rebuilding himself.”
You are not your habits.
You are the space in which habits rise and fall.
And you are capable of choosing better ones—starting now.
"Bad habits comes automatically but the good you have to make it." – Written by Sujan Karki
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