Some of the people who read this blog may or may not know about my recent challenge/struggle to get sober.
While I wasn’t living under a bridge or holding a cardboard sign on a corner asking for money, I had developed a lifestyle that involved way too much alcohol. And while alcohol was something I had always enjoyed socially in my life, from the age of 16 until 43, I recently decided that there was no longer a place for alcohol in my life.
So, I did the only thing I knew how to do, and that was to get help from the best source that I could find to rid myself of alcohol. As of today, I’m 37 days into a new chapter of life that is alcohol-free.
If some people reading this have their mouths’ on the ground, it’s okay. I’m still me. I’m still as tenacious, power-driven, and crazy as I’ve ever been. But now I simply get to do it without any substance occupying my life. And I’ve got to tell you, the start of this new chapter has been almost magical.
They talk in sobriety about a pink cloud. A pink cloud is the state of mind where you always feel good and you always feel free, and you always feel away from all of the bad feelings and things that occupied your mind. But now, as I continue day after day through this journey, I truly can tell you it is a magical state of being.
It’s magical to feel as good as I feel. It’s magical to not have stress upon stress piled up in my life. It’s magical to see things from a clearer, broader perspective. And that perspective for me is being rid of alcohol.
So, as I come to a close with this, my point is very simple. Do what a very wise person once told me, and that is, take the one thing in your life that is causing you to not be successful and get rid of it. Get rid of it, and get rid of it for good.