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For me, I had a kind of interesting perspective on recovering addicts, and the energy, and further with which they would often share their story and their personal journey to sobriety.
Often, I felt like there was just something that they had gone through that I couldn’t fully understand and the enthusiasm with which they approached life. I found to be a unique common denominator.
When I quit drinking, I knew I was done back in the summer of 2019, the last thing on my mind was telling my own story. At that point I was still in the mode of survival and making sure I felt confident I was over the hump from a neuroscientific standpoint and had reprogrammed myself sufficiently and was in good shape.
At that point, I had no intention of telling any type of story.
However, after about a year, as my superpowers grew, and my clarity become more enhanced, I realized that what I had both stumbled upon and accomplished was something that could be a value for at least one or two other people out there in the world. I also know that watching other people move about the world that had quit alcohol and using them as examples to provide encouragement with something that I had personally leveraged.
Once again, I’ll give thanks to my Steve Bledsoe up in Franklin Tennessee, who never really shared his story publicly, but I was enough of an asshole to pry and asked questions that he shared his story and for me it was inspirational.
Steve is a guy that worked for ClubCar for about a quarter century and was willing to tackle and try all sorts of new endeavors and challenges, including our efforts to make cars included with a telematics and multimedia technology screen and every car. Steve is a wonderful guy, and I love to thank him for helping me find the courage to know that I could be alcohol free and still be a successful partnership and business development executive in the golf industry.
(Anytime I have tried to thank Steve, BTW, he will say something like “Why are you thanking me? That’s just weird”. Ha, Ha, Ha! Steve tries to be an asshole to cover up how nice he is, he doesn’t want people to know what a real soft sweetheart he is, but I figured you out Steve!!)
This video is particularly cool because this guy is saying I’m just getting started and “Look how far I’ve come”!! By sharing his struggle, he is inviting us to get better together.
Today I’d like for all of us to take notice of someone in our lives that’s making a real serious effort at a critical point in their life to get better either mentally physically emotionally or all the above.
Let’s take a deep breath together and think about who in our closest group of say twenty friends and family has gone through a big life change and is really putting in some work every day to improve and be a better version of themselves.
If we send a simple text, that said “keep shining and working hard you’re doing great “it will definitely be positively impactful. This is something that cost us nothing, and these are the ways that we provide energy to fuel other people’s greatness simply by being thoughtful and considerate, and taking a few moments out of our day to send a message.
Just like I’m sending this message to you, so I’m not asking you to do anything I wouldn’t do myself, right?
Some cool science now exists around the benefits WE receive when we encourage others.
Neuroscience suggests that helping others can trigger the brain’s pleasure centers and release hormones that boost mood and combat stress:
Endorphins: The brain’s natural morphine, which can be released when helping others.
Oxytocin: A feel-good hormone that can be released when helping others, which can boost mood and counteract the effects of cortisol.
Serotonin: A neurotransmitter that can be released when helping others, which can help regulate mood.
Dopamine: A hormone that can be released when helping others, which can boost mood.
Mesolimbic pathway: The brain’s reward center, which can be stimulated when helping others.
Dorsal anterior cingulate cortex and right amygdala: Brain areas that can show reduced stress-related activity when helping others.
Left and right ventral striatum: Brain areas that can show greater reward-related activity when helping others.
Research suggests that humans have an intrinsic drive to help others. Prosocial behavior can develop in early childhood, and toddlers can often show concern for others in distress.
Enjoy the day, make that call to a friend, and go ahead and tell your story!! Feel free to laugh, cry, celebrate, because it looks like we have another gift from the universe today, life, and we get to display to everyone our attitude of gratitude.
EVERY DAY:
Love
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Gratitude
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KC
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