now is the best time to rethink and start improving your life

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Plan to improve life:
Get hooked on heroine
Lose all friends and family from crippling addiction
Have eye opening experience
Decide to get sober
Relapse 
Get sober again
Become motivational speaker for sobriety
Write a book
Get rich
Get 10 wives

this is my biggest concern - that I'm just not capable of experiencing something that would change my ways.

even after experiencing extremely negative or extremely positive situations in my life, i just regress to my zombie dead-on-the-inside self within a day. 

how do people just wake up one day or experience something significant in their lives and completely switch their m.o.? i'm aware most of these cases/stories are bullshit, but some really do manage to make a change