How to Conquer Any Challenge in Recovery

How to Conquer Any Challenge in Recovery

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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.

1. Maintain Your Baseline

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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.

2. Prioritize

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888-979-16483. 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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888-979-16484. 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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888-979-16485. 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 body’s 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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888-979-16486. 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 don’t 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 don’t you go relapse over it. Just hold on for all you are worth.

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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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