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Old 07-30-2009, 03:12 AM
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Tazman53
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Sorry to hear you have decided that drinking is better then being sober Mike.

Do you REALLY want to quit?

Instead of taking no action, which is what simply not drinking is, doing NOTHING if you really want to stay sober, why not take ACTION.

Here is some simple ACTION to take if you REALLY want to stop drinking, grab a pen and 2 sheets of paper.

On one sheet of paper write down every thing you have been doing so far to try and stay sober.

On the other sheet of paper write down everything you can think of that other people who have been sober a while have done to stay sober. Make sure you include things that you are not willing to do at this time to stay sober.

Okay now IF you REALLY want to stay sober pick one thing from the list of things you are not doing to stay sober right now and add it to the list of what you were doing to try and stay sober and DO IT!!!!

I have found that the only way I can stay sober is by ACTION, not INACTION.

Simply not drinking is not recovery!

Recovery is ACTION!!!!

Recovery is being brutally HONEST with your self and politely honest to all others.

Recovery is being OPEN MINDED! In other words not letting prejudices and preconcieved ideas stand in your way, instead of deciding something is not going to help you because you have decided it won't help OPEN your mind and try it!

Recovery is being WILLING!! Willing to try ANYTHING to stay sober. Never say never, I did that for many years and kept drinking because I was not WILLING to do what ever it took to stay sober.

I have done many things that when I was drinking I swore I would never do to stay sober, those very things I fought tooth and nail to not do are the things that keep me not only sober, but free from the obsession to drink and happy.

What was the biggest thing that I refused to do? Admit that I needed help in staying sober, that I could not stay sober alone. I swore I would NEVER go to AA because I knew it all and AA was for losers!!!!

If you REALLY would like to stay sober why not call the AA hotline or some other recovery programs hotline and talk to someone?
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