What motivates you ?
Member
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Baton Rouge, La.
Posts: 15,237
Even for those with long term sobriety can lose
motivation or focus to remain sober. Staying connected
to my recovery lifelines and continuing to incorporate
on a daily bases the recovery tools and an effective
guideline taught to me some 29 yrs ago helps me to
keep what's most important in my life at the top of
my lifes list.
Moving forward and not backwards is a good reminder
and motivator.
Help others. Service work. Sharing your ESH experiences,
strengths and hopes with another struggling with addiction.
Take care of ones self and not be selfish. Be kind, caring,
understanding, courteous to each other.
Working in my backyard with flowers and plants,
feeding my birds, communing with nature, stopping
to smell the Roses as we often hear, slowing down
to appreciate and be grateful for lifes wonderful
gifts.
To cherish them and not take one moment for
granted. So many things come and go and yet
we have one life to take care of. Don't waste it
or throw it away.
Addiction is relentless and never rest. Yet, we
can put it to rest by applying a recovery program,
a way of life that will help each one reach many
of lifes goals by remaining motivated in our purpose
in achieving a healthy, happy, honest way of life.
motivation or focus to remain sober. Staying connected
to my recovery lifelines and continuing to incorporate
on a daily bases the recovery tools and an effective
guideline taught to me some 29 yrs ago helps me to
keep what's most important in my life at the top of
my lifes list.
Moving forward and not backwards is a good reminder
and motivator.
Help others. Service work. Sharing your ESH experiences,
strengths and hopes with another struggling with addiction.
Take care of ones self and not be selfish. Be kind, caring,
understanding, courteous to each other.
Working in my backyard with flowers and plants,
feeding my birds, communing with nature, stopping
to smell the Roses as we often hear, slowing down
to appreciate and be grateful for lifes wonderful
gifts.
To cherish them and not take one moment for
granted. So many things come and go and yet
we have one life to take care of. Don't waste it
or throw it away.
Addiction is relentless and never rest. Yet, we
can put it to rest by applying a recovery program,
a way of life that will help each one reach many
of lifes goals by remaining motivated in our purpose
in achieving a healthy, happy, honest way of life.
Do your best
Thread Starter
Join Date: Aug 2014
Posts: 67,047
Keep em coming please I love it
https://youtu.be/IdTMDpizis8 - Jocko "GOOD"
I don't care what motivates you and I don't mean dance moves neither .. nope it's not about that it's about anything ask yourself in private what motivates you for now not before not in the future but right here right now
See that video .. that's Jocko I can't stress how much this guy helped me get past the riptide
Post away even cheesy dance videos if that's your bag whatever but most importantly I don't care if you don't post just check inside and ask what is motivating me right now
I knew in advance this thread wouldn't get many replies but that's ok it's my thread it's your thread
https://youtu.be/IdTMDpizis8 - Jocko "GOOD"
I don't care what motivates you and I don't mean dance moves neither .. nope it's not about that it's about anything ask yourself in private what motivates you for now not before not in the future but right here right now
See that video .. that's Jocko I can't stress how much this guy helped me get past the riptide
Post away even cheesy dance videos if that's your bag whatever but most importantly I don't care if you don't post just check inside and ask what is motivating me right now
I knew in advance this thread wouldn't get many replies but that's ok it's my thread it's your thread
Member
Join Date: Aug 2019
Posts: 207
Health.
I'm not a spring chicken anymore, in fact, not for quite a while -- I got my Medicare card this month. Having seen some before me going into their later years with addiction issues (alcohol, cigarettes, food) and looking at myself... well, I'd like the rest of my life to be healthier than the direction it's been heading in. So the alcohol and about 50 pounds need to go (the cigarettes have been gone for a decade). Without this commitment, it would be an unhealthy and difficult road to the end.
I'm not a spring chicken anymore, in fact, not for quite a while -- I got my Medicare card this month. Having seen some before me going into their later years with addiction issues (alcohol, cigarettes, food) and looking at myself... well, I'd like the rest of my life to be healthier than the direction it's been heading in. So the alcohol and about 50 pounds need to go (the cigarettes have been gone for a decade). Without this commitment, it would be an unhealthy and difficult road to the end.
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Join Date: Jun 2016
Location: Adelaide, Australia
Posts: 28,658
Gratitude for every breath taken, even on the worst of days.
Hope- for the future
My sons
Art
Music
Exercise (to relieve depression, anxiety etcetcetc)
People at SR- including yourself, Wolf
Learning new stuff
Every new dawn. Promise of new beginnings
Hope- for the future
My sons
Art
Music
Exercise (to relieve depression, anxiety etcetcetc)
People at SR- including yourself, Wolf
Learning new stuff
Every new dawn. Promise of new beginnings
Member
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: Colorado
Posts: 3,474
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Thanks for this one, SW.
These Days, I enjoy digging down into *whatever* and really enjoying The Simple Life. For me, if I maintain Serenity and effortlessly ignore the push/pull of Drinking 'Culture', things really take care of themselves.
The Drinking Days are over. Any fight has left. Contentment is a sufficient motivator. I like this Life, and don't let it slip away.
We take the RV Trailer and MesaDog out to places like the one below on the California Coast, and just take it all in...
Thanks for this one, SW.
These Days, I enjoy digging down into *whatever* and really enjoying The Simple Life. For me, if I maintain Serenity and effortlessly ignore the push/pull of Drinking 'Culture', things really take care of themselves.
The Drinking Days are over. Any fight has left. Contentment is a sufficient motivator. I like this Life, and don't let it slip away.
We take the RV Trailer and MesaDog out to places like the one below on the California Coast, and just take it all in...
Do your best
Thread Starter
Join Date: Aug 2014
Posts: 67,047
Member
Join Date: Mar 2019
Posts: 519
What motivates me is the chance at a life.
I lost so much time (17 years) to this disease and I really almost did not make it out. At one point I had accepted that I was destined to fail at life and become a statistic, I thought it was better that I not be around and be a burden to everyone I knew and loved. What a sad place to be.
I am catching the glimpses at this life I am getting every day, in the good and the bad days. I am seeing beauty in things and enjoying being present and not enjoying feeling things but it is all in the container of good.
I am motivated by simply being alive today, everything else is the bonus
I lost so much time (17 years) to this disease and I really almost did not make it out. At one point I had accepted that I was destined to fail at life and become a statistic, I thought it was better that I not be around and be a burden to everyone I knew and loved. What a sad place to be.
I am catching the glimpses at this life I am getting every day, in the good and the bad days. I am seeing beauty in things and enjoying being present and not enjoying feeling things but it is all in the container of good.
I am motivated by simply being alive today, everything else is the bonus
Do your best
Thread Starter
Join Date: Aug 2014
Posts: 67,047
Love that Niclin
To everyone driving in the winter be careful if you encounter ice on the roads
https://youtu.be/kF_t8R956n8
To everyone driving in the winter be careful if you encounter ice on the roads
https://youtu.be/kF_t8R956n8
Member
Join Date: Jul 2017
Location: New York, New York
Posts: 600
That I can’t control my drinking so drinking is not an option, that I can’t be a normal drinker & enjoy it like others can. There are many benefits of a sober life that keep me going as well.
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