I don't think there is a "secret" to successful recovery. Or if there is a secret, it is your addiction's secret way of getting you to drink. What trips you up? What are your reasons or excuses to drink? Start there.
I had to change my thinking...thinking that one day I could drink. Thinking life was boring sober, thinking that this time I could control it. Or thinking I could say F%$# it, and drink.
I had to change how I coped with life sober. How I dealt with conflict, anger, loneliness, boredom, happiness, frustration, and stress. I had to take drinking off the table completely and not rely on alcohol as my go-to solution.
I had to change what I did to entertain myself, change the activities I engaged in that were alcohol-centric, I had to change where I hung out, and who I hung out with.
I had to have faith that I could get and stay sober and that if embraced recovery, I would be rewarded.