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Quit and Conquer

Built for the ones who put down the bottle and picked up a hammer. Each week we help people in sobriety make real progress in their lives—through better mindsets, habits, and personal growth.

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Another fresh start isn't going to change you.

There's a certain allure to starting over we don't usually talk about. It's not hard to understand the pull either. Everyone loves the idea of a clean slate. The emotional high of a reset. The feeling that this is the moment where everything finally changes. It looks like fresh notebooks.New routines.Clear calendars. It feels like optimism, hope, and excitement. It tastes like fresh coffee. It smells like dawn. And when you're standing in that kind of moment, it's easy to believe that this...

I was about 6 months clean and sober before the feeling of being lost had become unbearable. It wasn't heavy in a way where I wanted to go back, but it was heavy enough that it demanded attention. The issue was I had no idea how to move forward. All I knew was that standing still was no longer an option. I had heard a lot of talk about the importance of finding your purpose, the value of meaning, all of it. But, up until this point, they just seemed like some amorphous terms people threw out...

I remember getting out of rehab and looking around. My friends had houses.Families.Careers. They had direction. I couldn’t help but being consumed by this feeling. Not that I had been left behind, but that I had allowed myself to fall behind. And not by months.Not by a year or two. By a decade. While they were building something… I was drifting. No direction.No consistency.Just reacting to whatever was in front of me. Short-term decisions.Short-term thinking.Short-term relief. Days blurred...