The Recovery Guy Blog

Today, I embrace words such as never, must, always, and every.

Mark twain said, “a man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.” This quote is so important to understand. Self-esteem is the necessary component Two most all accomplishment. They desire that fuels a person to do the best job possible is foundational to success. How I feel about me will often determine the job that I do in the subsequent outcome. Going back to the quote by Mark Twain it is necessary that I approve of me.

Through accountability from a wellness standpoint means that I am an open book to you. This does not mean that every relationship in our life is based on our accountability. Most of my relationships have superficial accountability that apply to one area or another. As the relationship becomes more meaningful and has a different impact on me in love or caring or sharing intimacy, accountability his defined much differently. I love the simplicity of the word accountable.

Stephen Covey taught me “that every major scientific breakthrough came as a result of a break with.” Based on these great men of wisdom and the things I learned in the plan of recovery it has become noticeably clear to me that I needed to cease doing what I was doing to become what I had desired to become.

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.“

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?

My name is Claudine, and I am an alcoholic and a drug addict.

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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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.