If You Can… Kipling’s “If” for Recovery
Read Rudyard Kipling’s poem “If” in full, then walk through every line in plain English with everyday examples for staying steady and hopeful in recovery.
Thoughts…
“You don’t have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you.” ~ Dan Millman. A thought is just a thought. It is not a command.
Take a bite out of it!
Some mornings the day looks like a whole meal you’re supposed to finish before lunch. The calls, the inbox, the list that grew overnight. You stare at it and wonder where to even start. Here’s what Sunday’s readings kept telling me: you don’t eat it all at once. You take a bite. Start at the kitchen table […]
Emotional Sobriety
The idea of “twenty-four-hour living” applies primarily to the emotional life of the individual. Emotionally speaking, we must not live in yesterday, nor in tomorrow. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 284 I believe Bill was sober ten years or more when he discovered a process he titled “Emotional Sobriety.” When I first heard about the […]
Writing Brings Clarity
“For me, writing has become prayers that say, `Great Spirit, return to us our freedom, our land, and our lives. We are thankful for the present from which to learn how to be thankful for the past, and how to be hopeful for the future.” –Barney Bush When I began my recovery journey it was […]
Passion
“There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.” — Frederico Fellini In August of 2012 I set out on a new venture, My goal was to build a brick and mortar agency that utilized the recovery success principles I had been developing and refining over the course […]
Aloha!
To consciously manifest life joyously in the present! Aloha I do not remember the show I was watching but a few months back I heard the actor make this statement. I thought, “wow that is wonderful, I want to write about that.” So I jotted it in my notes and well, today is the day. […]
Multiplication
Unless you have gone through school with the Common Core system you probably remember the “Multiplication” tables. We needed to memorize those tables and had better learn some shortcuts and not with our fingers to assist in the process. I recently saw a “gif” of the multiples of “10,” it went like this: 10 x […]
Recovery; Simple but not Easy!
It took me a long time to understand that I could be what I choose to be, that I am, indeed, that which has the capacity to look fear in the eye and dissolve it. No problem can be resolved from the point of view of the problem. I learned to ask myself, “What’s another […]
Mastery Starts Now
“Mastery does not come from dabbling. We have to be prepared to pay the price. We need to have the sustained enthusiasm that motivates us to give our best.” — Eknath Easwaran In order to overcome any obstacle and addiction is an obstacle in living a successful life, we must recognize that there is a […]