My take.
I had no chance of staying sober until I was able to give my sobriety a place of indivisable, unchallenged priority in my life. That means it was more important than ANYTHING.
In AA we call it "going to any lengths". It makes it a lot simpler when, having suffered enough, we cherish our sobriety above everything else.
As I have often thought about my own chaotic drinking life - it wasn't enough that I suffered. I had to suffer enough.