“If you could find out what the most successful people did in any area and then you did the same thing over and over, you’d eventually get the same result they do.” — Brian Tracy The key to recovery is simple, do what those of us that are successful getting and living recovered do and … Read more
If we skip [step five], we may not overcome drinking. Time after time newcomers have tried to keep to themselves certain facts about their lives. Trying to avoid this humbling experience, they have turned to easier methods. Almost invariably they got drunk. — The Big Book It was 1988, I had struggled with two issues … Read more
The investor of today does not profit from yesterday’s growth. — Warren Buffet Life requires that every day we suit up and show up. Yesterday’s growth can be quickly diminished by todays actions. Each and every day we must put one foot in front of the other and live the life we are shaping. Reverting … Read more
“To try is to risk failure. But risk must be taken because the greatest hazard of life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow, live, and love.” — Leo Buscaglia The greatest risk … Read more
The greater the tension, the greater is the potential. — Carl Jung Our lives can be filled with tension at times. We have two choices, we can be stiff or rigid and we will snap or we can be flexible and bend or stretch like a rubber band. Earl Nightingale indicated that one feature of … Read more
Everything is lawful, but not everything is beneficial. Everything is lawful, but not everything builds others up. Do not seek your own good, but the good of the other person. — 1 Corinthians 10:23-24 NIV There is nothing more frustrating then making choices that are out of congruence with who you are, what you want and … Read more
It is wonderful what you can do when you have to. — C.S. Lewis When your back is up against the wall you can accomplish more than you think. Each and every one of us were coerced in one way or another to recover. Our backs were against the wall and we responded. We slowly … Read more
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. — Helen Keller Doors open and close in our lives. When they do we must take decisive action. Waiting for the perfect answer leaves room … Read more
My mind is a garden. My thoughts are the seeds. My harvest will be either flower or weeds. -Mel Weldon What we put in we will get out, we sow what we reap. If we plant vegetables we will harvest food to sustain us. If we plant weeds we will be full of inconsistency and … Read more
Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world. — Johann von Goethe As time goes on in the recovery process I have learned more and more about myself and the challenges that we all face in the process. I have learned not … Read more