I’m Robert the recovery guy
Personal Life & Career Coach
Recovery one day at a time with Robert
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Recovery Guy Podcast
As a seasoned and energetic motivational speaker Robert’s uplifting view of the recovered life will encourage you. His topics cover a wide variety of perspectives and resources to help build a better you.
Episode #99 – Tuesday The Fix: Follow Robert Along His Path to Recovery
Follow Robert on his 30 for your journey of recovery as he speaks to a group in the park in Bountiful, Utah. Robert explores all of the ins and outs of his personal journey and what he recommends to others as they seek life long recovery.
Episode #98 – Friday The Checkup: Random Thoughts
I hope you are looking at your recovery as an ongoing project. It has to be ongoing. If we stop doing what we did to get to where we are at we run the risk of falling to where we started and even further back. We must view our recovery as a journey. The minute we...
Episode #97 – Tuesday The Fix: Staying Focused in the Now
Staying focused in the now (today) is more challenging than it appears. The easiest thing to do is get ahead of ourselves. Today is the bigger and more important than yesterday and even tomorrow. WE can change anything about yesterday any more than we can predict how...
Episode #96 – Friday The Checkup: Getting Well from the Inside-Out
As many of you know, I recommend Stephen Covey. I appreciate Stephen’s insight as a source of paradigm modeling that when properly understood and applied can help create the mental map necessary to get us from where we are at to where we want to go. “The 'Inside-Out'...
Quality Movement Part 2
Without taking action everything else we would want to do is only a thought, prayer or a wish. We must take action to accomplish any of our personal and interpersonal goals. We must act if we’re going to become more productive in our life moving forward. The bible says, “faith without works is dead.”
The Quality Movement
It is within this definition of quality that encouraged me to look deeper into this “Quality Movement”. As I searched a deeper into Mr. Deming’s work I found that there were 14 points that he recommended with respect to management.
Episode #95 – Tuesday The Fix: The Art of Becoming Whole
Kintsugi is the Japanese art of putting broken pottery pieces back together with gold — built on the idea that in embracing flaws and imperfections, you can create an even stronger, more beautiful piece of art. Every break is unique and instead of repairing an item...
Episode #94 – Friday The Checkup: Steps For The Day
As a person who required and desires a set plan to help be successful, I strive daily to do the things necessary to help ensure my daily success. I hope the things on this list are things that you can incorporate into your life to aid you in elevating your life to...
Keeping Things in Order
One of the aspects that is common to most all people of recovery is that we would live a chaotic life that was mostly directed by how we felt. There was never a reason to the rhyme. We were emotionally responsive and very rarely did we have on intellectual or practical approach to our daily living. Many things we would do because it was a degree of normalcy in our life, but for the most part we would go through life flying by the seed of our pants.
Supporting Recovery while Social Distancing
Anytime I’m caught up in the challenges of my life the I find it so helpful and RE refreshing to assist someone else. I like their next suggestion, which is to serve others.
What Is Life Coaching?
Who is Coaching For?
It is my opinion that the one looking to be coached must be so convinced that their current situation is so injurious that if they don’t change their life would be irreparably harmed or they will die. Now that might seem drastic to some, but is it really? If you’re in a position where you would consider a coach, you would likely conclude that doing it by yourself with the methods that you’ve been trying are not effective and would be counterproductive to continue in that direction.
Life is meant to be enjoyed and cherished
There is nothing more discouraging than waking up each day dreading what the day holds. If that is you, when will you stop allowing the day to dictate that to you. Own the day from the outset and be the master of your own outcome.
We have been created to be a light to others
Stop allowing the external pressures to hold back your internal desire to grow and develop.
Create a legacy of happiness by living that legacy now.
Increase your value to others as you increase your value to you.
About Me
Recovery Guy was born out my own personal recovery. I had become a chronic alcoholic. I began choosing alcohol and drugs on a daily basis when I turned 18. I was so deeply trapped I also became a compulsive gambler, overeater, bulimic, and I was also addicted to pornography. I entered treatment in February 1986. After one brief relapse, I have been clean and sober since April 25, 1986. Along the way the overeating, bulimia, gambling and pornography have left my life. I have learned so much over the years. I went back to college at 39 years old to get my degree in Alcohol/Drugs Studies. I have worked in various treatment models. Along the way I became well. I went “From Broken To Whole.” It is my belief that everyone has this potential. I went from a feeling that if something didn’t change I was going to die to a person of accomplishment. I would love the opportunity to guide you as I was guided. I took advantage of the help offered to me. I have combined that information in proven ways to assist you. Thank you for your time.
Testimonials
“Robert’s content is outstanding. It’s not merely about addiction, but life in general. His recent podcast gave me food for thought. I will be thinking about the “inside-out” scenario for a long time” Jan T.
“Recovery Guy has been part of my recovery for almost 3 years now. I appreciate Robert’s perspective on recovery and how to extract the most out of every day. He has encouraged me to take on daily challenges aggressively and have more major victories”. Angie
“I got to know Robert when we were looking for a speaker for an AA meeting. Since then I have relied on his elevated approach to seeing life, I have decided that I want to pursue and grow the way he has. I want to have his degree of recovery in my life. Robert has been a wonderful influence in my life”. Chaz M
Find Your Balance. Set Your Goals. Take A Challenge. Reward Yourself.
Understand that a life coach teaches you how to live productively one day at a time. We learn to overcome obstacles and other challenges that would have previously taken you off course and caused to slip back into previous behavior. A coach helps a person of addiction understand that true sobriety is more than the absence of the substance. Being sober is the beginning of sobriety, not sobriety itself. Whether it is overcoming a behavior that is not addiction related or behavior that is associated with alcohol or drugs the goal is the same. One must learn how to live a different way and because of enjoying that lifestyle the person would no longer want to engage in that negative behavior. It really is as simple as that. A coach is nothing more and nothing less than a conduit/guide for new way of living.