Commit to Action

There’s nothing like a drink to end the day to celebrate a job well done. That’s what earthlings can say and most of them can get away with it. Most of us have lost that privilege because we used to celebrate no matter how the day or the night before went. It was our wont to escape reality and if we did actually do a good job in the mocus state did we even remember what it was that was so good?  I doubt it.  

The week between Christmas and New Years can find us at a loose end. We might be for example in the middle of making our resolutions for 2012. Some of them might include a new diet, an exercise regimen or even in the case of those still sick and suffering the declaration to stop drinking. Resolutions rarely work because we usually lack the commitment to put those words into action. And let’s face it resolutions although the concept is a good one usually falls on deaf ears: our own.  I found that it can help to tell our significant others that we have made these resolutions and in this way there is a social proof underway that we not only can’t disappoint ourselves but those we have made that commitment to as well.  However, in the case of stopping the drink public announcements are just not strong enough and the only way we can put our words into action is to take it to a higher power. 

Now a higher power doesn’t mean that you have to expose yourself to religion or even start gong to church what it does mean is that there is a power greater and it just so happens it’s not us. We can join AA or we can see a member of the clergy or a CASAC counselor or a therapist. We don’t have to do it alone because there is no token economy that gives us a commendation for doing it alone. If we are in a rowboat and the oars are provided we use them if we are to get anywhere other than where the tide takes us.  

The week between Christmas and New Years can be the one where we start to take action and put down the drink without ceremony.  Get dry and sober right here right now.