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Old 02-25-2021, 03:30 PM
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Obladi
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Alrighty then. I thought I'd stop in and forewarn you that tomorrow is Friday, and damned if the weekend doesn't come right after that.
What's the plan?

Every evening, for months when I was first sober, I made a schedule for the next day - scheduled literally every hour.

It was on a whiteboard, right there in front of my face. I got to check things off as I did them, and if I didn't do them, they sort of nagged at me in their black and white way. If I did something that approximated what I scheduled, that was ok though. For instance if the schedule said, "read recovery literature" and I went to a meeting instead, that was ok. (Or vice versa) It helped me quite a lot. You know, it kind of pushed me to do the "I don't wanna" things, which was just about anything. Bathe, change my sheets, go for a walk, read an actual book, call someone who cares...

Just an idea

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