In 2007, Andrew Warner quickly emerged as Cincinnati's premier street magician. Following in the traditions of David Blaine and Criss Angel, Warner brings his own urban sensibilities to in-your-face magic. After a cross country magic tour sponsored by CiN Weekly, Warner is back in Ohio, now based in Columbus, re-establishing himself as a local presence.
People always talk about quitting, bad habits and their inability to quit bad habits.
I don’t get it.
Sometimes I like to get myself addicted to stuff just to prove to myself how easy it is to quit… Caffeine (the hardest). Cigarettes (the easiest). But through this process I’ve learned something about the nature of quitting and changing myself in general.
Essentially quitting is a split second endeavor, not a long process. Quitting is in a moment of decision when you look at all the consequences of your actions and make the best decision you can. If you’re still wavering when you’ve quit, then you haven’t quit. It’s only a matter of time until you relapse and it’s really just an exercise in vanity.
It’s like any commitment. If you’ve made a decision you’re going to stick with it. Some people just make irrational decisions in a split second because they feel they’re supposed to. These are the ones who get married at the appropriate age and probably get divorced when things get hard. These people buy nicotine patches en route to the next inevitable tobacco relapse.
It’s not a matter of will power and some people aren’t stronger than others. It’s just a matter of becoming who you want to be in your head and heart.
Now what’s harder is applying that concept to your real life, but that is the ultimate goal. My best advice is to not even have goals. If you want to be something or someone, decide that is who you are. If you find you’re drifting away from what you wanted to be or what you wanted to do, odds are it’s not what you really wanted to begin with.
