How to Conquer Any Challenge in Recovery

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How to Conquer Any Challenge in Recovery1.
Maintain Your Baseline2. Prioritize3. Focus4.
Modeling5. Daily Habits6. Persistence7.
Evaluation
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1. Maintain Your Baseline
The first part of shaping the proper attitude is
to maintain your sobriety. Here you are in
recovery, you have essentially overcome drug and
alcohol addiction. Now you have come up against
new challenges in your life. Focus on the gift of
recovery and the idea that any new growth will
come from this foundation. Measure your success
in life by counting another day sober. Nothing
can be as important as the challenge of
maintaining sobriety. So keep this perspective
but use the baseline of sobriety to help push
yourself to rise.
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2. Prioritize
The next step in this process is to prioritize.
When I was fairly early in my recovery journey I
continued to smoke cigarettes for the first few
years. I was also chasing other goals at the time
and I made different amounts of progress on each
one. It can be difficult to know what the most
important goals are in your life. In my opinion
it can be helpful to ask other people at this
point where you might be putting your energy and
efforts.
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3. Focus
Keeping in mind your baseline of abstinence, you
need to assemble all of the power and
concentration that you can muster in your life
and focus on this one goal. I dedicated every
resource in my life to this one single goal. This
was the power of focus. I was not taking no for
an answer this time. I did not care what it cost,
or how much money I spent. I would stop at
nothing to reach this goal. Laser focus.
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4. Modeling
This is what sponsorship is all about in
recovery. You find a success story and you simply
model them. Monkey see, monkey do. Nothing wrong
with this approach and it is quite powerful for
most challenges in recovery. Of course everyone
may find a different path in how they meet a
particular challenge but I just had to find the
right model to follow to fit my own needs.
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5. Daily Habits
Staying off the cigarettes meant following new
daily habits. For me this meant regular exercise,
doing new things at work instead of taking a
smoke break, and using nutrition as a way to help
regulate my bodys sugar level. Consistency is
going to be important. If you are not laser
focused on achieving this goal then chances are
good that your daily actions will not line up
with success and allow you to follow
through. Your daily habits will define your long
term success in meeting any major challenge.
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6. Persistence
This is pretty self explanatory. If you do not
persist then you run the risk of falling short of
meeting your goal. Sustained effort is
critical. I dont know how to tell people how to
get through this major squeeze point because I do
not know how I did it myself. I really thought I
was going to go relapse and I am blessed that I
was able to hold on to my goal. Your world may be
collapsing but dont you go relapse over it. Just
hold on for all you are worth.
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7. Evaluation
If you go through the process outlined here and
you conquer a goal then you need to pause and
reflect on what you have accomplished. This
should eventually lead you to look forward to the
next possible challenge in your life. Figure out
what you want and then determine how you should
go about pursuing it. Then focus all of your
energy on one single goal and put all of your
energy into it. If you fail to conquer a goal
then you are not focused enough, or you lack
information (consider modeling and feedback from
others).
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