Good morning!  My name is Lauren, and I'm a grateful, recovering alcoholic/addict.  This quote makes sense in the fact that these 24 hours help my ultimate plans for the next month or years fall into place.  Yes, I need to have goals, but me not thinking too far into the future gets me to reach my goals.  So I just worry about today.  Well, not worry, but focus on.  Yes I have a calendar, and plan out dates, appointments, vacations, birthday parties, and such.  I have to because I am an adult.  But when it comes to reaching these things, I just get through one day at a time. Today, all I am thinking about it today.  Now I know I have a big day tomorrow with some appointments for my daughter, but that isn't today, so I will put it out of my head for now. (Even thought the hospital has called me three times today to verify information.) I will just get my work done, go home, make dinner, spend time with my family, and enjoy my day, clean and sober.  That's all I have for today.  Have a great one!  Don't forget to sign up for a free book.  :)

Good morning!  My name is Lauren, and I'm a grateful, recovering alcoholic/addict.  I decided to update my page a little bit.  I hope you enjoy it.  I really like this quote.  It's exactly what I had to do in my life to keep me sober.  This can be used in so many ways too, with working out, or eating healthy or whatever.  You just have to get the ball rolling.  Once you get the momentum going in the right direction, it is a lot easier to keep it going.  But the key is getting it started. Sometimes you need someone to kick you in the butt a little, sometimes it's a friend, or loved one, or even the state.  But whatever it is, its a start, so keep it going.  One day at a time.  I started working out and eating healthy again.  This time I am doing it with some friends, and it is a lot easier this time, because I am being held accountable.  We talk every day, and keep each other motivated.  I am making it a habit.  I had to do that with my meetings with my sobriety, And now I am doing that with eating healthy and working out.  Doing things over and over again and seeing positive result makes me want to keep soing them!  :)  That's all I have for today!  Don't forget to sign up for the book drawing I will be having in less than a month!  Also, there is a donate page now, where you can help me keep this page going, and help me help others.  Thanks!

Good morning!  My name is Lauren and I'm a grateful, recovering alcoholic/addict.  This saying was taught to be very early on in sobriety.  And with my selfish tendancies I was confused. What was I going to be giving away?  Today I have so much to give of myself: rides to meetings, sharing my experience, strength, and hope at treatment centers to those new in recovery, my time, sponsporship, my home to friends in early recovery also.  I also donate my books now too.  Even this blog.  All these things I give to help keep me clean and sober.  I have to.  I must give it away to keep my sobriety.  I must share what I have with others so hopefully they do the same.  My 3 years sobriety birthday is coming up!  It is February 10th, and my actual birthday it February 14th.  (Yes, I was detoxing on my birthday) I want to give away a couple books for my birthday this year, so can I get 35 emails by my sobriety birthday and I will draw 2 books to 2 different on February 10th!  :)  That's all I have for today!  Have a great one!  

Good morning!  My name is Lauren and I'm a grateful, recoveing alcoholic/addict.  Being grateful for the obstacles we have had in out lives is a hard thing to comprehend, but it is neccessary.  They have made us who we are, and have also strenghtened us as we continue on our life.  We are being molded by our experiences, both good and bad. But each one should be building us to be a better person.  God also puts people in our lives to help us grow.  We should yearn to be moving forward.  Yes, sometimes we may fall backwards, but as long as we pick ourselves back up and learn from our mistakes and continue forward.  That is progress.  But be grateful, for what you have, and who you have in your life.  Don't forget you can donate to help cover cost of this page and help me donate my books to those in recovery.  If you are on a computer it is on my right hand side.  If you on a phone, it is almost all the way at the bottom of the page.  Also, sign up for drawing for one of my books.  :)  That's all for today!  Thanks!

Good morning!  My name is Lauren, and I'm a grateful, recoving alcoholic/addict.  I really liked this quote, and I could talk a lot about it, and I'm sure I have before.  We know I'm not perfect and that I seem to notice other people's mistakes or flaws before my own.  Sometimes I point them out.  But what I really need to be focusing on is myself.  I have enough problems, I don't need to worry about anyone else.  Everyone makes mistakes, and I don't need to worry about theirs.  I only need to worry about how I respond to others.  I have been stuggling the past few days with some issues that I just can't seem to get over and they are going to turn into resentments if I don't get them off my chest or just over them period.  I'm not perfect, but neither are they, but that's not what it comes down to.  How does that saying go, "Fool me once, shame on you.  Fool me twice, shame on me."  I won't let it happen again. Just sayin...  I have tried, and tried. BUt can only do so much.  I just wanted to say I now have a DONATE button on this page.  If you are reading this on the computer, it should be on the right side.  If you are reading this on a phone it is ALL the way at the bottom.  The money from donations goes to keep this page up and running, and also helps me give out my books free to those in recovery.  Insider note.  I am working on two books right now.  One is "Another 100 Days (Sober)"  and the other my daughter and I are working on.  :)  That's all for today.  Have a great one!