If you don’t think you deserve a better LIFE, a successful family, how can you achieve it? How can you reach something if you don’t feel you can have it? If I don’t believe in myself, then it’s not likely that I’ll attract the means necessary to make this it a reality. It’s also not likely that I’ll be successful if I don’t believe it’s possible.

 What steps are you taking to make better things happen in your life?

1. You must have a “Growth Mindset.”  Believing you are something special is a Trap.  “The moment we believe that success is determine by an ingrained level of ability, we will be brittle in the face of
adversity.”  Write down your ideas/goals for the future. If you are going to be sober the rest of your life, what steps do I need to take?  Are you willing to stand alone in order to be clean?

2. Look at where you are now. Write down the things you’ll need to move forward. 
 
3. Consider your everyday thoughts. Do you go from believing you can reach your goals to being
discouraged? If you are always thinking negative thoughts how can you create a positive life for yourself? What you tell yourself everyday does have an impact on what happens in your life.

4.  Be willing to make mistakes, be willing to be honest with others and yourself, but most of all Try! 
This is a “Growth Mindset.”

 If you want to make positive and powerful changes, then you have to believe that those changes are possible for you. You have to be there on the inside long before you see the outside results.

There are very few in life that are willing to pay the price for change, willing to pay the price to overcome a weakness.   My admiration for those who do this is unmeasurable.  With that said, I would like to share a poem that a good friend of mine wrote a few months ago.  He is one who is paying that price.

"Mother Mary send us your grace, for so long has this soul been waiting to take. 

Take me to the heavens show me your father, the one who cures sin will he really even bother with my rotted soul? 

I spit hatred at him evil and sin. yet he just smiles, forgives the devil child. 

Shows me what could be mine, ultimate glory.  The big black book that holds my story. 

Choices have been made that I'll never get back, repentance do I lack.  Forgive me god please forget my past, but my son I have already forgot. 

Your slate is clean please move on, do not forget me, do no more wrong.   Your time is long you have much to achieve.  Smile and breathe become just Like me.

- Weston White