It’s really quite simple. The key to any addiction treatment or visit to a rehab is not to relapse. Whether it is cocaine, alcohol or any other drug if you don’t relapse, you don’t have to go back to a rehab again. If you build a great fulfilling life, relapse is not an option.
In the past few weeks we have examined several core areas of our lives. Work, financial, where we live, education.
Spiritual, why we are here and what we ultimately want to do. Our health, body and hobbies and interests
These will also determine how we interact with everyone, therefore affecting our relationships as well.
Once we have a clear plan that will take us in the direction we ultimately have decided for ourselves, we come to the most critical and valuable step in the whole process. We need leverage, and a lot of it, because with leverage we can find the special and unique â??tipping pointâ??. This will be the single most important cog in your growth, and relapse prevention plan. Although all change starts on the inside with you, it is your ultimate destination, wants and desires that will determine the direction, and thus your first steps.

Start to divide your list into the must doâ??s and the want toâ??s
Take the list of must doâ??s and rank them in order of priority
When prioritizing consider both the ultimate importance of the goal as well as if the goal is a necessary prerequisite for an even more important goal

Also look at ranking your goals by what is the most important goal in each area of your life
Work
Spiritual
Relationship
Learning
Physical
Special Interest â?? hobbies, artistic expression, charity

Take your top three goals that you have ranked and look at the steps and timelines you have laid out.
Place the timelines together and examine whether or not you will have to alter your commitments to devote enough time to really make a change.
â??We have time enough if we use it rightâ??

Again to make permanent and lasting change it is neccessary to go through these steps. Drug addiction is a bad habit and cycle. You have to crowd it out with good things. All the time spent in rehab will go down the tubes if you don’t do the work to move to a new place in your life. If you go back and look at all the things we have discussed over the last month, you will end up with a list to move away from drugs and alcohol. Cocaine is addictive, but not as addictive as success. Hang in there for the next week, as before I move on to a different area of drug addiction, I really want to nail the value and techniques of great goal setting and dealing with objections. Then you can use the information we are giving down the road to solidify your foundation. Rehab is about change. Change is about work. Sorry, no shortcuts.

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