choicehealthintegrated Our decision-making abilities can be negatively impaired by both extremes of emotions – joy and sorrow. Because of this, it is imperative that we understand how our happiest and saddest moments can cause us to avoid doing the next right thing. When we’re happy, the world seems brighter and more promising. This positive outlook, while … Read more
Below is an excerpt from one of Simon Sinek’s YouTube videos titled “Why Are Millennials So Difficult to Manage?” Forget the word millennial in the title, as this subject relates to most of us. Do you pick up your phone before you speak to anyone in the morning or even get out of bed? How … Read more
It took a while for me to appreciate it, but the true value I get from living clean and sober is experienced through the stuff money can’t buy. Early in my recovery, even though I was sober, I still had destructive and addictive tendencies. Things like telling the whole truth and nothing but the truth … Read more
A 2019 Pew Research study found that 49% of Americans had a pessimistic opinion about the future. During the COVID pandemic, an ABC/Ipsos poll (May 2021) showed this percentage increased to 55%. A year later, in the spring of 2022, another poll by Pew Research indicated a significant change in attitude, finding that 68% of … Read more
Sometimes we look at the success of others and think, why not me? But then, for some reason, our mind reminds us of (FILL IN THE BLANK) from the past that, makes us think, it’s too late for me now. I blew my chance for success. Or is it? The reality is our commitment to … Read more
To verify we are serious about the commitments we make, life likes to test us with minor challenges and annoyances each day. While these “tests” are nothing we can’t handle, they do make us work a little harder, both mentally and physically, and this increased workload often triggers the voice in our head to ask, … Read more
It’s trendy, it’s a catchy phrase, and if you’re not familiar with the concept touted on Oprah and across various other media outlets, now that you’re reading this, chances are you’ll hear or see the phrase soon. Love Languages: Proposed as the secret to fulfilling and lasting relationships. Whether you buy into that concept or … Read more
Humility is central to life and recovery because of our addiction’s incredible power and its never-ending desire to have us use again. Regardless of how many days, weeks, months, and years we have been clean and sober, our addiction waits for that moment when it can return, that moment when our humility is lost. Self-confidence … Read more
One of the benefits of a disciplined approach to money is that it eliminates financial stress, which makes life that much easier. When we are careless with our finances, we create the opportunity for our mind to take us where we don’t want to go. Financial stress is real, and when we are struggling to … Read more