Tag: Drinking

Oh, that’s right

A milestone in 2022: 62 days in Glacier National Park. Previous record was 50 days – in 2021 (and in 2020).

Oh, that’s right, resolutions always never work.

But you’re reframing that.

Resolutions always work.

We must become comfortable knowing that resolve takes time.

We must also become comfortable that belief morphs into faith, faith morphs into action, action transforms into commitment, and commitment blossoms into purpose.

Didn’t reach 22 years of sobriety overnight.

The original act was simply to make December 31 the first day without a single drop of alcohol.

The next act was to repeat that accomplishment (an entire 24-hour period without a drop of alcohol) a second consecutive day.

Pro tip for 2023: Pick a calendar date that has an inspiring personal narrative. Hint: January 1 resolutions are bad karma.

Personal examples: Have used April Fools Day, Tax Day (April 15), Halloween, Thanksgiving, and New Years Eve. Personal narrative is amplified when you intentionally pick a memorable and meaningful milestone launch date.

  • April Fools Day – began blogging
  • April 15 (Tax day) – began running one-mailbox-a-day
  • Halloween – retired from Disney (scary)
  • Thanksgiving – announced my first book was published
  • New Years Eve – quit drinking on world’s biggest drinking day

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Your greatest desires via mindset

child by a window
He saved my life. He knows this story. He can recite it to others.

Please do not lose hope on your greatest desires…

Twenty years ago on New Years Eve, the world’s biggest drinking day, i saw an obscure opportunity to .think .differently about previously failed attempts to quit drinking everyday.

What if changing the commitment by a single day could change everything.

Instead of quitting on New Year’s Day, what would happen if i was freakin’ bold enough to quit on the biggest drinking day of the year?

New Year’s Eve transcends religion, beliefs, and geography – the entire civilized world uses the same calendar. Even people who don’t drink will raise a glass to ring in the new year.

This was 2001. i had been a father for over a year. Being a great dad became my greatest desire.

If i was going to teach ‘impossible is nothing’ and ‘.think .differently’, i needed personal example narratives.

Go big or go home means nothing if you don’t do it occasionally.

Change what you see and what you see changes.

.hpm

Note: .hpm = happy present moment

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Reprise from yesterday’s insight about wisdom and our thoughts

Sanibel sunrise
Every day that you wake up (alive) is an opportunity to do the impossible.

 

Reprise from yesterday’s insight about wisdom and our thoughts…

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Had my first drink at 13 the Summer of 1972.

Somewhere around 18 i went full-time.

At 41, on my third “no, this time i mean it” attempt, i stopped.

Impossible is nothing…

There was no middle ground for me. Every day or not at all. i quit on New Year’s Eve (not New Years Day), the biggest drinking day in the world.

Prior, i promised myself i’d stop if my wife got pregnant. Did well for a little while, but failed.

Made another promise, “When the baby is born.”

Did well for even longer (about 6 months) than the first failure, but failed again.

Then, as our Son was almost 1.5 years old, i decided Dec 30 would be my last drinking day.

That was 2001.

Failure paves the way for success if you want it bad enough.

 

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The first “sober” New Years Eve happened in 2001

Highline Trail
The best hike of my entire life happened August 31, 2016 with Dave Weir – Highline Trail in Glacier National Park. It happened 3 more times in 2017 on the same trail – with Family July 31, Howard Doran August 30, and solo September 29…pictured here. 

Highline Trail
September 29, 2017 the trail was deserted.

Orlando Disney Keynote Speakers
Smiling because i’m free, yet knowing the devil is always wanting a piece of me,

Highline Trail
Fall colors from shrubs and trees, not flowers, this time of year.

Highline Trail
Remnant smoke from the 2017 Sprague fire.

The first “sober” New Years Eve happened in 2001.

i intentionally picked December 30 to be my final drinking day, so that New Years Eve (the biggest drinking day in the world) would be the beginning of my resolve.

New Years Day is a terrible day to begin transformational change – it’s so unreliable.

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