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.
Everything we transmitted to others revolved around us getting whatever we wanted when we wanted it. We disregarded everything around us. It did not matter how important and vital a person, place or thing was, we put our drinking first.
Overcoming shame needs to be both immediate and ongoing. It needs to be immediate becauseit will hold us hostage until it causes or death.
“If I ever go looking for my heart’s desire again, I won’t have to look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn’t there, I never really lost it to begin with. There’s no place like home.”
These are some of the things I have learned to incorporate in my life. I refuse to lose what I have been given. In order for me to keep, maintain and grow them, I must use them or I will lose them.
Whatever you do today please do not sit there and say my marriage is fine and this does not apply to me. I challenge you
to put my previous suggestion to the test and ask your husband/wife “How is our marriage” or “If I could change some things what would they be?”
Today’s podcast is from a speaking event on Saturday, August 15, 2020. I was the keynote speaker at the “Old Timers” meeting at the Salt Lake City, Utah Alano Club. I share my story of my personal recovery and my understanding of what the 12 steps of recovery has to offer those willing to work for it.
If you are a person of recovery believing is foundational to everything we have. As a person of deep faith, my belief is not at the core of who I am; it is the very core of me.
A necessary shift for everyone in recovery is to go from negative bondage to a positive affirmation. This transition takes a consistent concerted effort to achieve. Most people stop before they succeed. It will likely be the most rewarding challenge we ever embark on.
One of the most challenging things we ever do is look inside ourselves to uncover/unmask the truth. The more critical the need to look.
Without inspiration things become old and no longer refreshing. We become stale and stop finding it desirous to grow
It for this very reason I want to challenge you to elevate your thinking and let you know I have found a way to have the best of all worlds. I can stay in the now/day while at least having a major say if not outright controlling what yesterday and tomorrow look like.
As John Maxwell says “If there is Hope in the future there is power in the present.” We want to hope to help elevate us to greater things.