Commitment in Addiction Treatment means that you have to go all in. Half paced, half measures and half a commitment won’t get you very far, statistically speaking. Once you have decided that you want a life of purpose and meaning away from addictions, then you need to commit to taking several real and practical steps. We mean tangible steps that can be seen in your behaviours, not just in your head.
You are capable of whatever you put your mind to, however you must remember that putting your mind to it is not enough. You need commitment in recovery. You need to walk it through. You need to take your thought and theory and put it into praxis, practical action. If you are really determined to advance a career where you have felt you have been stuck, then you need to begin by following the five easy steps above. Patiently and positively go on a journey of career enhancement.
Good things seldom happen overnight, you need to live them and bring them into reality by practicing them. If you don’t have the vocation you won’t have the occupation. Commitment in recovery is about perseverance, not giving up and pushing through. It is about something magical that most good career positions involve. commitment in recovery is pure gold; learn to develop it here and now. I have a knowing that all the principles in addiction recovery itself are interconnected and aid one another in a mutually exclusive symbiosis. This leads to successful recovery. This faith, plus the hard work will just about do it. Effort and faith, two essential ingredients that underlie ones commitment in recovery.
So, in other words interconnectivity is key. Success in one area of your life undoubtedly breeds success in other areas of your life. There is a flow in one direction or another. To maintain this flow perfectly and consistently may seem difficult or even impossible but if you simply practice something, it will undoubtedly turn into reality through process. This is the science of addiction recovery.
In other words if you hate your circumstances, loath being sick and tired, and start to look at these circumstances as barriers (goals) you need to overcome, those same barriers will show up in your career. If you are short with people at home, you will be short with them at work. If you are a king baby in addiction, you’ll probably be one in recovery. Seldom do we see people who fail at recovery, who are committed. You can see the difference between people who are willing and committed and those who are not quite easily, most of the time. No matter what others do, they refuse to take personal responsibility; and the recovery process stops right there. Dead in its life saving tracks.
There is a fundamental congruence that needs to flow through your life into and amongst all things. You cannot serve two masters so to speak. So you need to ensure that the good aspects of yourself flow through into the other aspects, such as work, and your dealings and interactions with people on all levels. It has been said that if you really want to get an understanding of a person’s true personality see how they treat the waiter at a restaurant, see how they treat the car guard in the parking lot. It’s easy to be at your best while trying to impress but that’s not what Commitment in Addiction Treatment is about. We don’t need to study Johari’s window to know that there is a hidden self and so forth. If you cannot move anywhere in your career you are stuck, there is a stumbling block in front of you that you need to make a stepping stone. You need to get unstuck by letting go of the glue, the thoughts, that have kept you there and begin by moving forward daily. Turn activity into action. This is after all how all journeys start.
10 Ways to practice Commitment in Addiction Treatment
These 10 simple truths below about Commitment in Addiction Treatment round off the journey to one’s life work, seemingly hidden amongst these pages, are very powerful in terms of realising your career possibilities. They are a short and precise linear journey that will enable you to grasp what you want.
- Decide if you honestly and truly want more of a career, more of life. Are you willing? Along with money goes responsibility, some pressure, more hours, more commitment etc. What do you really want? Decide and follow through with SMALL DAILY PRACTICES.
- Have you actually, specifically asked for more in terms of your life’s work as yet? Do the asking. Be specific.
- Don’t try and separate yourself, one part from the other; leisure you from work you. Be on purpose, be your divine and whole self.
- Get a vision of it and hold it resolutely. Begin your commitment in Addiction Treatment to take delivery of thoughts and information regarding your life’s work and hold onto them. Think about it. Read up on it, learn and develop yourself and move to a place where you are ready to receive.
- Put it into praxis. Work with your hands. Be of service to the people in recovery with you no, today. Learn how to draw, to create and to compose with simplicity and practicality each day and KEEP IT SIMPLE. KEEP IT REAL.
- Yes, you need a journal. The power of the pen is ridiculously strange and powerful. This is one thing Mark L Lockwood with 23 years of experience in healing people with the Pathways Addiction Treatment Program knows all too well. “how or why it works I have no idea, yet I have seen the worst, most desperate, resistant and defiant people pick up a pen and start writing begin to heal!” It is too powerful to be underestimated.
- Use a daily task tracker or app. Start owning up and showing up and growing up. Become accountable, and then become formidable.
- Stop the distractions and the drama. Recognise what you are doing when you get into other peoples business. Then get straight back into your own business.
- You have to actually work a program. Nothing changes when nothing changes. Find a program like ours, or any good program and work your butt off.
- Remember that your best thinking got you to this point in your life. Your very, best thinking has ended you up here. Without your history and the stories and memories and then without your defence mechanisms and the responses you have made to your problems you are free from addictions and depression. end of story.
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