According to my research, you lose 10% of you muscle mass by the time you reach your 50s. While doing push ups is great (and I’m up to 50 now!), you also need to work out your other muscle groups. So I’m adding in some dumbbell exercises and resistance bands to my morning routine.
Dependence and addiction are anchors. They numb us to possibility. And they cause us to fear impermanence and seek escape from it. Alcohol and drug dependence are the realms of regret, loss, and decay. The world closes in around you and suffocates all it envelops.
While I am more confident about my sobriety than I’ve ever been, having prepared for this moment, there is a little piece of me that fears the challenge of the day ahead.
There are many fears newly sober people face. I like to call these the BIG F****’s. In this blog post, I’ll cover sobriety’s five big fears from the perspective of a sober newbie.
While you can’t buy more time, you can rent, lease, or give less of it away. The less you surrender, the more you have to enjoy. It’s kinda like that old fable about the ant and the grasshopper. If you are facing a winter of debt, you may want to start acting more like the ant. While it’s sexier to live like the grasshopper in summer, the ant has it made in the shade the minute the weather turns.