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Date Posted: 20:23:36 12/03/06 Sun
Author: Nanette
Subject: It all counts

I am getting tasks done left and right! It feels great to be accomplishing so much! I am slowly filling up my days with the things I want to do, and becoming progressively more busy. I have some pretty ambitious goals now for myself, for the next few years. Now that I'm not drinking, and as I become more and more able to complete the tasks I want to, I can see how I will be able to accomplish the goals I have set out to achieve for myself. This must be what it's like to actually "handle" responsibilities instead of being terrified and running to hide, in a bottle, from those responsibilities. The result is a very satisfying feeling.
On reflection, part of that is realizing that everything I accomplish counts. I was accomplishing tasks while I was drinking, but, I didn't think they counted because I was feeling so guilty about what I was not accomplishing. So, it's not just the absence of alcohol. I am giving myself a break, and realizing that everything I do matters, no matter how small, and is something I can feel good about. Plus, I am present now. I am happy doing whatever I need to do, at the time I am doing it. An example of what it was like before: on the days when I would clean my house, while I was drinking, I would not see that as an accomplishment because, I would tell myself that "everybody does that", or think it really wasn't that big of a deal because it was something I should do anyway, and besides, even if I got the house clean I still didn't do something else, like make it to that exercise class, or get those bills paid, or whatever it was I wanted to do besides get the house clean. I would belitte myself for the things I acheived because I didn't achieve something else. So, of course, I drank and then got even less done and felt even weaker and more useless. I wasn't allowing the tasks I did get done to count.
Now, I am allowing all those small tasks to count.I feel really good once I've finished cleaning the tub. And, the funny thing is, because I feel good about accomplishing those "little" things, I feel energized by those good feelings to go on to the next task to tackle, and I'm accomplishing even more than I ever thought I would. I am becoming one efficient machine, powered by my own special brand of jet fuel, over here! That's how my energy is increasing. It's getting better everyday. There are still some things I would like to incorporate more of into my lifestyle. But, I'm not letting the things I don't accomplish rule my life. I'm allowing the things I DO accomplish rule my life. I don't think I can express how much more of a boost I am getting from that. Now, the things I don't accomplish one day I know I will be able to the next day, or the next week. It doesn't seem like it's something I will never get to. I will get to it. Everything seems within reach now! Mainly because, everything is!
I am grateful that Schick's program was available to help give me back my life. But, you know...that's me accomplishing that too! I did that!
Wow!

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Re: It all counts P.S. -- Nanette, 20:47:12 12/03/06 Sun
- Re: It all counts P.S. (NT) -- N, 17:56:44 05/21/07 Mon