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Sobriety Is In The Hands Of The Beholder

Updated on July 12, 2014

In every one's life we all have the ability to achieve anything we wish, if we choose to reach out and want it bad enough.

As far as people that unfortunately may suffer from alcohol or drug addiction, always remember that there is hope and help for all that wish to achieve sobriety in their life.

Achieving Sobriety is in the hands of the beholder and if you truly want that type of life then it is waiting for you to take advantage of it.

Living life sober can be a wonderful thing, but sobriety seems a little hard for some to achieve. It's not an impossible thing at all if you really want it.

I thought that it would be an impossible venture for me and I did it as well as anyone can. You just need to want it bad enough. If you have in your mind that you are a lost case or you think that you are too far gone as far as your addiction, then you are totally mistaken.


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Regaining Your Sobriety

There is nothing stopping anyone from achieving sobriety. You need to face the facts that if you are addicted to alcohol your life will never be like it should, meaning, you are letting those alcohol demons run your life and in turn you are heading for a miserable future life.

People that are addicted to alcohol are all different and with different stages of addiction, meaning some are far worse off than others. There are no to alcoholics alike.

One thing of course they all have in common is that each and every alcoholic has the ability to become clean and sober and to regain their sobriety back into their lives.


What Needs to Be Done on Your Part

Regaining sobriety back into your life as well as the pain and suffering families have to go through is all in the alcoholics hands.

There is nothing stopping any alcoholic from coming clean, it's their decision whether or not they want sobriety back into their lives. All you need to do is take a good look at your life as you live it now and look into the future and imagine what it would be if you continue on the way you are drinking alcohol.

Think to yourself, if I were to stop drinking alcohol how would my life be being clean and sober and how would my family life be as well?

Looking at these two different ways of life, by drinking and not drinking should not be a hard thing to figure out for anyone. It's all basically spelled out for you and all you have to do want to be sober and want to have a life filled with happiness and joy, not only for yourself, but everyone that is involved in your addiction to alcohol.

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Being Positive Can Help in Sobriety

Being Positive in anything in life including Sobriety is your best shot of success. You have to have a Positive Attitude in order to succeed in anything you want to accomplish. Without positivity in your life you are going to have a very hard time achieving anything, including sobriety.

This is my experience, and I think that the words I speak can and will help anyone that wants to get sobriety back into their lives.

If you truly want sobriety and to once again to be clean and sober than I would recommend trying to change you outlook on life and start thinking positive because I can tell you that when I got out of the negative mood I was in and start thinking positive was the biggest help in me finding my sobriety.  Positivity makes a world of difference, believe me.

© 2011 Mark Bruno

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