Enthusiasm

Each and every morning the first thing I do before I have my morning cup of coffee is do my prayer, meditation and prep for the day with “My Morning Mental Workout”. My attitude everyday will determine my success in the future.  Today I will walk, talk, act and believe like the person I wish … Read more

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas everyone!  Joy to the world…  I have spent Christmas in 3 different Countries over the past 4 years.  All 3 are extremely different!  But one thing stays constant, that is JOY.  It is a time of celebration.  In my early years of recovery I would dread the holidays.  Today I love the holidays … Read more

Friends

I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let’s face it, friends make life a lot more fun.   Charles R. Swindoll Without a doubt there is a social paradigm to life.  If you are old enough you … Read more

Humbly

Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts.  It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all.  ~William Temple If you read this blog you know that humility  is one of our Joy principles.  How does one actually acquire … Read more

The Joy of Living

Life is meant to be enjoyed and not to be endured.  Jack Jackson 1) To truly enjoy life you must change the way you think.  We must become possibility thinkers.  We need to look for the positive first!  How do we accomplish this in such a negative world?  One way is to study, read, and … Read more

The Strangest Secret

We become what we think about.  Earl Nightingale. In 1998 I was 10 years abstinent from drugs and alcohol.  My Spiritual relationship, my family life, my recovery, my career, all seemed from the outside to be clicking!  Yet I continued to have an emptiness inside.  Don’t get me wrong it was not a depression or  … Read more

The Heart of a Champion

Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared.  – Eddie Rickenbacker The message of Real Life Recovery is to show average and ordinary people that they can build a life they are proud of and they can gain independence for themselves and their families.  If we have … Read more

Can You Cry Under Water?

I was recently asked this question!  Can you cry under water?  Got ya thinking huh?   I am going to assume that is exactly what they were trying to do.  Get us to think! In 1956 Earl Nightingale recorded the first and only Gold Record in the spoken word – self improvement industry, “The Strangest Secret”.  … Read more

Gratitude

“We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.”  -Winston Churchill In early recovery for quite a few years on Friday afternoon at 5:30 pm I attended “Happy Hour”.    Not the happy hour that I had learned to love in college.  A self help 12 step meeting called … Read more