I learned so many lessons in my early years of sobriety, my early years of recovery from alcoholism & addiction. Today I can draw from my experiences because of those early years. In April of 1988 I knew that I knew that I wanted more in my life. I found myself surrounded by people in … Read more
Typically I will write one Blog in a day but the first today is more of a thought provoker and news story. This is primarily a recovery blog that I attempt to look at the bright side of the recovered life. Hope! When I look back at my life before recovery and in recovery the … Read more
Live with Passion! Tony Robbins We all have something that excites us that moves us to action. We all have the inner motivation and ability to live up to our potential and do it joyfully. When we are doing what we love and passionate about it gives us the reason to hit the floor daily … Read more
“Time is limited, so I better wake up every morning fresh and know that I have just one chance to live this particular day right, and to string my days together into a life of action, and purpose.” — Lance Armstrong Typically in the recovery communities teachings when we think about day by day we … 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 It is so easy to get overwhelmed in early recovery. We attempt to bite off more than we can chew. However, having … Read more
“There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.” – Orison Swett Marden Through the years I have found that the more Hope and Love a person had as a child the greater the chance they would have at recovery. Now of course that is … Read more
“Striving for perfection is the greatest stopper there is.… It’s your excuse to yourself for not doing anything. Instead, strive for excellence, doing your best.” – Sir Laurence Olivier At times I have been guilty of attempting to be a perfectionist, in hindsight I can see it was an excuse for the fear of acting. I … Read more
These allergic types can never safely use alcohol in any form at all; and once having formed the habit and found they cannot break it, once having lost their self-confidence, their reliance upon things human, their problems pile up on them and become astonishingly difficult to solve. —Alcoholics Anonymous (4th ed.) We have Blogged before … Read more
“Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.” – Sidney Smith We all have God given talent. Now surely, to become excellent or proficient at anything we must practice. Michael Jordan became great not solely on his incredible talent, … Read more