I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. – Diane Ackerman As alcoholics and addicts when we are actively using we have nothing more to look forward to then more … Read more
A real decision is measured by the fact that you’ve taken a new action. If there’s no action, you haven’t truly decided. Tony Robbins The decision making process is exactly that a process. There are four aspects of the process. First we must decide to take action. We must recognize that the word DECIDE means … Read more
“The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.” – Brian Tracy Pushing others up, offering people a pat on the back for a job well done can be the difference for them in their recovery. The founders … Read more
“When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.” – Isak Dinesen Rome wasn’t built in a day. Many of us in the early days of our recovery process are impossibly impatient. We … Read more
It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It’s my partner. — Jonas Salk Each and every day holds the potential for an opportunity to grow and expand our … Read more
“Know what’s weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon… everything’s different.” – Calvin and Hobbes Over the years I have heard many “theories” on addiction treatment what works and what doesn’t. Back in the 60’s and 70’s the belief that heroin addicts can not recover they are addicted for life. They … Read more
“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” – Dale Carnegie I certainly do not claim to have accomplished anything great for mankind in my lifetime. But I will say that I am a fighter, I … Read more
“Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit… we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.” – Aristotle There is nothing more heroic for the addict or alcoholic than to take the action to recover. There are braver things for people to do or overcome but … Read more