Robert is the Recovery Guy. Getting clean and sober on April 25, 1986 has given me the insight and practical skill set to not only stay sober, but to also re-invent myself to the person I always wanted to become. Showing others how to do this is my life goal.
What separates First Things First for me was that it was a book written by Stephen Covey. It was more than a cliché’. It was a philosophy. It was a blueprint for me to follow and a means for me to elevate my recovered life.
As so many of us, while in my active addiction, I was so far out ahead of where my personal choices could take me. In the sport of snow skiing there is a term called “out over your skis.“
Step Eleven is the 2nd of the daily maintenance steps in the plan of recovery. Without this step, it is near impossible to gain the spiritual insight needed to live a full life and be of maximum help to others.
Recovery is the goal and the process. To be recovered should be the goal of every person who enters recovery.
Years ago, I asked a friend of mine if I could do three things to help and sure my lifelong recovery what would those things be?
The most exciting thing about Step Ten is that it involves an introspective look into ourselves as we would consider our day. Built into the step itself is the spot-check, the end of day checkup and periodic checkup.
Throughout our life we are given many chances to be something and we chose to be nothing. I used to be a wandering generality, but now I’m a meaningful specific. After all these years, I have come to believe that the life that continually try to choose me, I finally chose back.
Making a break with the past is about living and working in ways that will enrich your life and the lives of those around you. It is an exploration into the natural laws that govern all our actions and how you can align yourself with those laws that you can then bring true power, energy, compassion and integrity into your life and the lives of those around you.
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We cannot buy our own peace of mind at the expense of others.
Remember, it does not matter where we start it matters where we end up. Since this is about the journey not the destination where I desire to end up is on the successful end of another day.
With all earnestness at our command, we beg of you to be fearless and thorough from the very start. Some of us have tried to hold on to our old ideas and the result was nil until we let go absolutely. Remember that we deal with alcohol -cunning, baffling, powerful! Without help it is too much for us.