How I made made my life simple after surrender to an addiction to alcohol was quite simple. Here is how I changed my life around with the decision to stop drinking alcohol forever.
Alcohol as we all know can be very addictive if we don't know who to manage our drinking and start abusing alcohol.
Many times people start off drinking alcohol just to take the edge off of their life and thinking by drinking alcohol things will get a bit easier and they will forget for that moment any problems in life they may have. The problem for me, and the problem for many drinkers is that they thought by drinking everything will be just fine.
They feel as if drinking alcohol makes them feel great and they tend to forget those problems for awhile until they sober up the next day and that problem that didn't feel that bad is right back on their doorstep waiting to be resolved.
Drinking alcohol will never fix any problems in anyone's life. It sure didn't for me as I am sure it will never fix anything for you. Alcohol just makes things worse, and the trend will go on and on, day after day, because the way you felt being buzzed or drunk made that problem somewhat disappear, if only for a few hours of that day.
Today, being sober since October 27, 2009 my world and my life is amazing. All the things I thought would never happen, such as my dreams and goals to move to the New Jersey Shore are now a reality. I really believe if you want to help yourself and change your life then things will begin to go your way. You need to help yourself first before anything or anyone will help you.
I wouldn't trade sobriety for anything in the world. If feels so wonderful to be able to wake up in the morning and remember what you did the day before and the night before.
It is so wonderful that you are not a prisoner to your addiction. I can get into my car anytime of the day or night and head out onto the roads with not a worry in the world of being pulled over and given that great DUI.
The only worry I have is for someone else that has been drinking and driving their automobile hits me.
I keep my promise that I would never pick up and alcoholic drink ever again and I have stuck to that promise and will continue to do so until the end of my time here on Earth.
I live a simple life now and I am very happy. No one needs alcohol to so called be happy. Think positive and have the will, determination and a strong desire to stop drinking alcohol and it will happen.
I finally realized after many years of drinking that alcohol does not make you happy, sobriety is the most important that will change your life and make you a happy and healthier person.
I was fortunate that I didn't need AA, or any meeting. I did it cold turkey, BUT please don't do as I did. You may need to get the proper help and medical attention to get sober. I took a huge chance by what I did, and would not encourage to do it that way. Get sober safe and have the right people treating you so that you can detox in a safe and healthy manner.
So if you truly want a better life for yourself and your family you need to get out of denial and take action to change your life around all for the better and stop drinking and abusing alcohol.
If you are interested in learning how to give up alcohol then Click Here to read more.
Here is my Ebook on My Life Of Alcohol Addiction that explains just how I got started with this horrible addiction.
You can read more articles I have written on HubPages regarding ways to stop drinking and the reasons why you should stop drinking if you believe you have an addiction to alcohol. Also in these articles are Hubs about living with a positive attitude and just living a simple and happy life.
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Sunday, November 6, 2011
How To Live A Simple Yet Happy Life
All of us know that there is nothing simple in life, or is there? I have learned over the past two years that less is more and I will continue to live life thinking and acting that way. I always knew that saying , but never put it into action in my own life.
How to live a simple yet happy life is really up to each and everyone of us, and if that is the lifestyle you wish to live by. For many of people they wish to live high on the hog, as they say, but living this way and knowing you may not be able to afford this type of lifestyle, could very well put you in a financial situation that maybe very difficult to get out of. I know this because a time in my life I was in that same boat and was drowning in debt.
I wanted things and bought things that I thought I could afford, but knew deep down that I couldn't. This never stopped me from getting what I wanted. The banks make it so easy to get loans as long as you were willing to pay the high interest rates in which I didn't care about because I wanted what I wanted and never thought of the consequences to pay the loans back.
At that time I also had one other problem and that was, I was addicted to alcohol in which made me make poor decisions and made me think irrational.
When you make poor decisions in life they will indeed catch up to you and make your life very miserable because those thoughts and decisions you made before. These poor decisions need to be dealt with and corrected in order to be happy again and get your life back on track.
After I surrendered to my addiction to alcohol I started to think better and make better decisions in my life and one of those decisions were to get out of debt and live a happy life again and not worry about where the money was going to come from to pay for all those stupid purchases I did years before.
Once I got clean and sober I was then able to start to plan this huge change in my life, with of course, the help of my wife that stuck by my side through all the ups and downs in our marriage all do to my addiction. I praise her for standing by my side through these tough times.
Now it was up to me to make things better. The way they should of been all those years in the past.
IDEAS FOR YOU TO LIVE A SIMPLE LIFE
How to live a simple yet happy life is really up to each and everyone of us, and if that is the lifestyle you wish to live by. For many of people they wish to live high on the hog, as they say, but living this way and knowing you may not be able to afford this type of lifestyle, could very well put you in a financial situation that maybe very difficult to get out of. I know this because a time in my life I was in that same boat and was drowning in debt.
I wanted things and bought things that I thought I could afford, but knew deep down that I couldn't. This never stopped me from getting what I wanted. The banks make it so easy to get loans as long as you were willing to pay the high interest rates in which I didn't care about because I wanted what I wanted and never thought of the consequences to pay the loans back.
At that time I also had one other problem and that was, I was addicted to alcohol in which made me make poor decisions and made me think irrational.
When you make poor decisions in life they will indeed catch up to you and make your life very miserable because those thoughts and decisions you made before. These poor decisions need to be dealt with and corrected in order to be happy again and get your life back on track.
After I surrendered to my addiction to alcohol I started to think better and make better decisions in my life and one of those decisions were to get out of debt and live a happy life again and not worry about where the money was going to come from to pay for all those stupid purchases I did years before.
Once I got clean and sober I was then able to start to plan this huge change in my life, with of course, the help of my wife that stuck by my side through all the ups and downs in our marriage all do to my addiction. I praise her for standing by my side through these tough times.
Now it was up to me to make things better. The way they should of been all those years in the past.
IDEAS FOR YOU TO LIVE A SIMPLE LIFE
- Remember that less is more is most cases, although many people may argue with that statement. It is my thoughts and the way I now live my life, and it has worked out perfect.
- Get rid of all the things you really don't need and start cleaning and throwing away.
- Think if you can do without different things to make life simpler.
- Start paying down extra on your bills to get them paid in full sooner.
- As far as transportation, do you really need that expensive car or truck? I bought a car cash, because after all I only need it to get from point A to point B.
- Think of things while grocery shopping that really are not necessary to buy.
- All these things I mentioned save money and when you save money by cutting down you can live more simple (and don't need to break your back working for the rest of your life to pay those bills for the fun and the prestige for things I really didn't need to be happy in my life.)
- Many people reading may think I'm nuts, BUT I have done all of this and I am a stone throw away from being debt free, and that is a wonderful feeling. So call me nuts, but I have no financial worries anymore. I live simple and I am happier than I have ever been. I now realize that material things mean nothing, although they are is a sign of prestige for many, but not me anymore.
- As I said in other articles, I sold my home and downsized big time to a manufactured home in a 55+ community minutes from the Ocean with the Bay right down the street. It was my life long dream to live by the sea and with my addiction to alcohol and the way I lived in the past it would never be possible to have what I have now and the best part is, everything is paid in full and now I can relax and enjoy my life with no more worries of paying or having things I really never needed, just to impress others.
Thursday, November 3, 2011
How To Retire By Living Low Key
Everyone in the world would love to have the best of everything in life, and some people may achieve that, and then there are those that struggle throughout their entire lives.
I am going to tell you what I have come up with. I call it my Master Plan. I will tell you my logic and my life on "how to retire by living low key."
I always had rich taste my entire life, but knew what I wanted in my life was too difficult to achieve with what I had to work with, such as lack of education and the lack of knowledge to being rich. I raise my hat to all those that have achieved success in their lives and wish them all the best and more to come for them. As far as my life and wanting to retire, I needed to come up with a plan that would able me to retire early in life and to be able to enjoy my life while still being healthy.
I first had to get rid of something that had been in my life for many years and that was my addiction to alcohol. Once I surrendered to my addiction, now two years sober, I started to think of what I could do to be able to live a simple yet happy life.
My first thing, and the biggest thing of all was to downsize my home and get rid of that huge mortgage payment I was making for the next 20 some years. My dream in life was to always live by the sea, and where I was brought up as child during the summers each year. I knew that living on the water, whether it be the Ocean or the Bay was way out of my reach, so I needed to think what I could do to get very close to those two bodies of water without spending a fortune, which I didn't have anyway. My wife came up with an idea to look into mobile home parks in the Shore areas and see what they were like. Most of them were 55 + community which was great because when we started looking I was only 6 months from the age of 55. We found a beautiful place less than a mile from the open bay and about 6-8 minutes from the ocean.
Now the question was, "would we be happy in a home much smaller and living in a mobile home
community?" The place that we found was a modular home (double wide) just like a rancher, but needed lots of work to get it in living order. We purchased it and paid cash and totally re-modeled
it from the inside and out. Now we have a brand new home that was paid in full. The only bill we
would then have regarding the home would be our utilities and HOA fees of $455.00 per month, which included, Taxes, water, sewer, trash, snow removal, pool and clubhouse.
Secondly, I needed to get all the rest of our bills together and start paying them off one at a time.
I cut up all the credit cards, because now everything was going to be paid in cash with no more credit.
I only buy what I need, with nothing extra.
I cut down on many things that really was not necessary in my everyday living.
I needed to do this in order to live life simple and have my dream home by the sea. If you are willing to give to get, like I was, your life can be so much easier if you take that chance. Sure, I was very nervous and worried if everything would come out as I planned, but as of right now, I am writing at my shore home with no mortgage and bills that are getting paid in full one at a time, until I have no bills at all except my living expenses.
Anyone can do it like I did. You need to have the guts to take that chance, and in my case it worked out just fine and I am happy and living like the rich with no bills and no worries anymore.
I am going to tell you what I have come up with. I call it my Master Plan. I will tell you my logic and my life on "how to retire by living low key."
I always had rich taste my entire life, but knew what I wanted in my life was too difficult to achieve with what I had to work with, such as lack of education and the lack of knowledge to being rich. I raise my hat to all those that have achieved success in their lives and wish them all the best and more to come for them. As far as my life and wanting to retire, I needed to come up with a plan that would able me to retire early in life and to be able to enjoy my life while still being healthy.
I first had to get rid of something that had been in my life for many years and that was my addiction to alcohol. Once I surrendered to my addiction, now two years sober, I started to think of what I could do to be able to live a simple yet happy life.
My first thing, and the biggest thing of all was to downsize my home and get rid of that huge mortgage payment I was making for the next 20 some years. My dream in life was to always live by the sea, and where I was brought up as child during the summers each year. I knew that living on the water, whether it be the Ocean or the Bay was way out of my reach, so I needed to think what I could do to get very close to those two bodies of water without spending a fortune, which I didn't have anyway. My wife came up with an idea to look into mobile home parks in the Shore areas and see what they were like. Most of them were 55 + community which was great because when we started looking I was only 6 months from the age of 55. We found a beautiful place less than a mile from the open bay and about 6-8 minutes from the ocean.
Now the question was, "would we be happy in a home much smaller and living in a mobile home
community?" The place that we found was a modular home (double wide) just like a rancher, but needed lots of work to get it in living order. We purchased it and paid cash and totally re-modeled
it from the inside and out. Now we have a brand new home that was paid in full. The only bill we
would then have regarding the home would be our utilities and HOA fees of $455.00 per month, which included, Taxes, water, sewer, trash, snow removal, pool and clubhouse.
Secondly, I needed to get all the rest of our bills together and start paying them off one at a time.
I cut up all the credit cards, because now everything was going to be paid in cash with no more credit.
I only buy what I need, with nothing extra.
I cut down on many things that really was not necessary in my everyday living.
I needed to do this in order to live life simple and have my dream home by the sea. If you are willing to give to get, like I was, your life can be so much easier if you take that chance. Sure, I was very nervous and worried if everything would come out as I planned, but as of right now, I am writing at my shore home with no mortgage and bills that are getting paid in full one at a time, until I have no bills at all except my living expenses.
Anyone can do it like I did. You need to have the guts to take that chance, and in my case it worked out just fine and I am happy and living like the rich with no bills and no worries anymore.
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