So, I fight like a champ to get past Drinkie last night, and what am I confronted with as I crest the big hill on the trail behind my house? An unopened beer. It was just sitting all by itself on a fence post. In the 23 years I’ve been hiking this trail, I’ve never encountered beer on a fence post. Never.
Besides being an overused word to describe such things, journey doesn’t begin to describe the trip I’m experiencing. I’d rather use the word adventure. I’m on a sober adventure. And know this because the twists and turns have presented me with an unexpected opportunity to build myself a rather excellent sobriety toolbox.
I’ve been questioning the increasingly slippery slope of my use disorder and considering a path toward sobriety for years now.
As I look at a Sober September, that voice is already hinting at what we will drink to celebrate sobriety on the first day of October. Talk about a powerful paradox!
Funny enough, it turns out that many of the world’s most famous and wealthiest entrepreneurs never attended college or dropped out. This list includes such luminaries as: Richard Branson, Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, Michael Dell, Larry Ellison, Jack Dorsey, and Bill Gates. These billionaires were all too busy starting and scaling successful businesses to, as Mark Twain famously quipped, “let schooling interfere with *their* education.”