Strive for Excellence

“Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life, rather than a Monday-to-Friday sort of dying.”   Studs Terkel Strive for excellence in all you do.  I was discussing the Real Life Recovery Program … Read more

O is for Our!

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.  ~Eric Hoffer I am grateful for “Our”.  For “Our” Father, “Our” plight, “Our” fellowships, “Our” lives, “Our” love, for the we in all of us.  We are all in this together.  I am grateful that there is a we.  None of … Read more

N is for Never Quit

Never, never, never Quit.  Winston Churchill My mantra through the years has been “Never Quit”.  If I am not a walking testament to perseverance you have never met one!  From day one of my life.  I was born with no hard palate and a bi-uvula.  I have had several surgeries in my recovered years and … Read more

M is for Carrying the Message

For me today carrying the message that recovery is life and life is good is what drives me.  It is amazing to me to see folks come from the pits of addiction into a brand new way of living filled with joy and hope.  It brings me back to my early days and the feeling … Read more

L is for Life is Gooood!

To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.   Johannes A. Gaertner Life is worth LIVING, cause Life is Gooood!  Living in gratitude is the key to happiness.  We attract more and more good into our lives by staying grateful for all … Read more

K is for Kindness

Kindness trumps greed: it asks for sharing. Kindness trumps fear: it calls forth gratefulness and love. Kindness trumps even stupidity, for with sharing and love, one learns.  Marc Estrin I have learned over the years that when someone is not kind to me it matters not!  If I allow myself to get upset I am … Read more

H is for Helper

“You only have what you give. It’s by spending yourself that you become rich.” Isabel Allende I am grateful today for being a helper.  In the audio The Strangest Secret by Earl Nightingale, explains that we are all paid in direct proportion to how we serve others.  We earn money by serving others.  But more … Read more

G is for God

…God is Love. 1 John 4:8 As an alcoholic with a depressed demeanor I must say that the “Poor Me’s” via God does not love me, God is not real, and worse was my mantra.  However with recovery has come an awareness of the Love of God in my life.   In the beginning I … Read more