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Today’s Tip:

If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there. You can choose right now which direction you want to go. All people daydream about what they want to do, own, or accomplish in life. That’s the easy part. What’s amazing is the lack of enthusiasm I’ve observed among men and women when it comes to taking action to turn their dreams into reality. Many new automobiles today are equipped with a GPS navigation system. The GPS, or Global Positioning System, tracks the movement of the vehicle and gives explicit directions that make it virtually impossible to get lost. The driver is supplied with a road map and directions to ensure that he arrives at his destination as efficiently as possible and in the shortest amount of time.

Today, you are about to develop your own road map to success. The letters “GPS” in your personal system, however, stand for Goals Produce Success. This GPS system will be the process that will guide you as efficiently as possible to your ultimate destination—a full recovery. It’s time to continue the journey by drawing up a road map to success. Writing down your goals is an action step. Your goals are your destination.

Today, write down one short term goal or task you want to accomplish in the next 6 months. And one long term goal you want to accomplish in the next 5 years. Make sure to place them where you can read them aloud every day. We become what we think about. We demonstrate what we focus on. Take deliberate daily focused action and turn dreams into reality.

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Unfortunately, many of us began our drinking and drugging career when we were still in adolescence where the need to be accepted can be paramount to all other needs. Think back to when you had your first drink of alcohol or your first cigarette. Did you say, WOW THIS IS THE TASTIEST THING EVER! Man, this is delicious. Probably not. More than likely, you forced it down and tried to appear cool or grown-up, so you would not be mocked by your friends. Maybe you even felt sick, but the need for acceptance drove you to override the taste, sickness, and possible consequences of being caught. You had no way of knowing at the time if you had a predisposition to addiction.

Most of us began innocently enough, but once the physical craving takes hold, coupled with the mental obsession and spiritual malady, we find it very difficult to give up that elusive feeling of comfort we get from ingesting drugs and alcohol. We develop the habit of using mind altering chemicals as a solution to life’s ups and downs. The importance of developing new more empowering habits cannot be overemphasized. The My Mental Health App is a tool you can use daily to interrupt a negative thinking pattern whenever one arises. Be sure you substitute your positive worthwhile goals and achievements whenever the old unproductive thoughts begin playing in your head. Practice saying, I am sober, free, and loved. I can achieve all my goals. I am God’s miracle. I deserve to be happy.

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When I crawled into recovery in 1990, I was a beaten and broken and desperate man. I became willing to follow suggestions from sober people and I learned how to stay sober too. The challenge became that I didn’t just want to be sober; I wanted a great life! Unfortunately, most of the truly good people who helped me get clean and sober had no more clue than I did at the time, how to move beyond the 12 steps and turn dreams into reality. Sure, we were all going to meetings, finding spiritual prosperity, and staying sober, but something was still missing.

Most addicts find themselves at some point asking themselves; is this all there is? Am I destined to spend my life in church basements attending 12-step meetings? Will I always be struggling to make ends meet, find true love, and discover my purpose? Not figuring out answers to these questions are often a contributing factor to relapse.

Don’t get me wrong. I owe my sobriety to the strong foundation the 12 steps have given me. But I firmly believe the true joy of recovery is practicing the principles in ALL my affairs. A Full and abundant life in recovery includes love, health, financial security, quality relationships and spiritual prosperity. My Mental Health blogs are designed to provide fresh ideas, and actionable suggestion that when practiced will immediately improve the quality of your life in recovery.

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As strange as it might seem, perseverance comes naturally to substance abusers which is probably counterintuitive to what we have been taught. Substance abusers are considered lazy, quitters and unfocused by society but nothing could be further from the truth. Think about what we persevere in our quest to get high. We risk our reputation, health, and career. We manipulate family, friends and love ones. We brave foul weather and loss of freedom to get what we think we need. We suffer through these and other challenges in our misguided effort to get high. We already know how to persevere so
now it’s time to use that quality to stay sober and achieve our destiny. We were not created to destroy ourselves with drugs and alcohol. Your overwhelming desire to persevere was built into you for a higher purpose. Draw on that character trait whenever you find yourself thinking about picking up a drink or drug. Use your stubbornness to stay clean and sober rather than to destroy yourself. Make a decision that no matter what life throws at you today you will not relapse. You are right where you are supposed to be. The Creator has built into you the perseverance needed to deal with any challenge.

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