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Don’t pick up the first drink!
Each day ask a Higher Power for help staying away from the first drink.
join AA on a daily basis.
Plan your day around a meeting.
Get a sponsor and use them.
Join a group and get active.
Attend a weekly Twelve Step meeting.
Keep the focus on your own recovery.
Thank your Higher Power each night for your day of sobriety.
Don’t pick up the first drink.
One of the easiest, most practical ways of keeping sober is the day by day plan, the 24 Hour Plan: Live in today only. Forget Yesterday. Do not anticipate tomorrow.
You can only live one day at a time, and if you do a good job of that, you will do well.
You are only one drink away from trouble.
Whether you have been sober a day, a month, a year or a decade, one single drink is a certain way to go off on a binge or a series of binges. It is the first drink – not the second, fifth or twentieth – that gets you drunk.
You know that it is possible to stay sober for 24 hours. You have done it many times. All right.
Stay sober for one day at a time. When you get up in the morning make your mind that you will not take a drink for the entire day. Then go to bed at night grateful for a day of sobriety.
Repeat the performance the next day and the next. Before you realize it you will have been sober a week, a month a year, and yet you will have only been sober one day at a time.
From “A Manual for Alcoholics Anonymous (the Akron Manual) first published in 1939. Neveraloneagaingroup.org
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