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Tip 95 Alcoholism - Find New Activities
You will need to find new activities to replace the old ones that were alcohol related. Taking the alcohol out of your life is one of the most important elements towards sobriety. This means that you need to eliminate those activities where alcohol once played a factor, such as going to the ball game and having a beer.
You may eventually be able to go to the game without worrying about craving a drink but, until you have a significant amount of sobriety time behind you, youll need to avoid this activity and replace it with something else.
Your value system is one of the strong elements of your success during recovery. When you focus on the spiritual balance in your life youre able to renew your commitment to this system of values that makes you unique from others. Youll need to make time to balance your spiritual life with the other parts of your life. One of the ways that you can find this balance is by reinforcing your personal mission statement.
The social and emotional aspect of the balance in your life focuses on the relationships that you have with the other people in your life. The healthier your relationship is with those others the more successful you are in your own life.
Identify those beliefs that are holding you back from recovery. When you think that something should be the way it is only because youve always known it to be so, then you need to change that belief. Youre only as successful and productive as your most positive beliefs. Be willing to make changes in your belief system to reflect new expectations.
The more you limit your beliefs the less likely you are to succeed in any area of your life. Limiting your beliefs is much like putting parameters and walls around the limits of your success. You need to expand your beliefs so that you can find the winning attitude that will help you achieve the recovery that you want. You need to throw away or change those beliefs that are limiting you from reaching your goals and your recovery.
You need to find out what it is that is holding you back from flourishing in your sales career. This means that you have to work with your belief system. |
