Goal met!
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Goal met!
Hi, friends...
Yesterday I defended my dissertation. I am now a doctor. (An academic one, not a medical one!)
Never ever ever ever ever could I have done this while still drinking. 1984 days ago I took my last drink. Since then, my life has completely changed. Listen: The first days, months, and even the first year were all so hard. I felt terrible, physically and emotionally. But slowly, slowly, slowly I got my mind back. Slowly I remembered that I cared about my own life, and I set some goals, and I started working toward them.
This post isn't meant to be self-congratulatory, but I post it in hopes that it will be inspiring to others. A couple months ago I posted in "Alcoholism" about how I'd thought, while drinking, that I was a high-functioning alcoholic but had come to realize how I wasn't functioning at all. I mean, I was functioning, I guess, but only as a shell of who I should and could be. I worked and managed. But I was mad and miserable and emotional all the time. I was just living day to day. I cringe when I hear people say they are a functioning alcoholic, because I know this means they this means they think things are going well but in actuality they are living just a fraction of the life they could be.
I'm 48 years old and just met a goal I've had in the back of my mind for three decades. Sober.
My plea to anyone struggling: Think about what you want to do. Then, think about how possible it is.
Anything is possible. I promise.
Yesterday I defended my dissertation. I am now a doctor. (An academic one, not a medical one!)
Never ever ever ever ever could I have done this while still drinking. 1984 days ago I took my last drink. Since then, my life has completely changed. Listen: The first days, months, and even the first year were all so hard. I felt terrible, physically and emotionally. But slowly, slowly, slowly I got my mind back. Slowly I remembered that I cared about my own life, and I set some goals, and I started working toward them.
This post isn't meant to be self-congratulatory, but I post it in hopes that it will be inspiring to others. A couple months ago I posted in "Alcoholism" about how I'd thought, while drinking, that I was a high-functioning alcoholic but had come to realize how I wasn't functioning at all. I mean, I was functioning, I guess, but only as a shell of who I should and could be. I worked and managed. But I was mad and miserable and emotional all the time. I was just living day to day. I cringe when I hear people say they are a functioning alcoholic, because I know this means they this means they think things are going well but in actuality they are living just a fraction of the life they could be.
I'm 48 years old and just met a goal I've had in the back of my mind for three decades. Sober.
My plea to anyone struggling: Think about what you want to do. Then, think about how possible it is.
Anything is possible. I promise.
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Congratulations on your achievements in life.
Having a vision or goals in mind and working towards
meeting them no matter what age or stage in life one is
in, can be achievable if one sets their mind to them and
the footwork is done.
I set my sober mind and heart to having a Camellia
garden of paradise this year and achieved it because,
now my entire backyard is full of budding Camellia bushes
in many brilliant vivid colors to enjoy this Winter all the
way to Spring.
Now my sober focus is on finishing up paving all my
gardens and my mind is made up to getrdone.
Sober blessings and achievements straight ahead to all.
Having a vision or goals in mind and working towards
meeting them no matter what age or stage in life one is
in, can be achievable if one sets their mind to them and
the footwork is done.
I set my sober mind and heart to having a Camellia
garden of paradise this year and achieved it because,
now my entire backyard is full of budding Camellia bushes
in many brilliant vivid colors to enjoy this Winter all the
way to Spring.
Now my sober focus is on finishing up paving all my
gardens and my mind is made up to getrdone.
Sober blessings and achievements straight ahead to all.
Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude
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Five smiles out of five!!! BRAVOThank you FNM for the incredible uplifting message of sobriety and the power of the wondrous human spirit.
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