The Daily Check-In for Wednesday, August 24th: Just for today, I am NOT drinking!
*We may be anonymous strangers on the internet, but we have one thing in common. We may be a world apart, but we're here together!*
**Welcome to the 24 hour pledge!**
I'm pledging myself to not drinking today, and invite you to do the same.
Maybe you're new to /r/stopdrinking and have a hard time deciding what to do next. Maybe you're like me and feel you need a daily commitment or maybe you've been sober for a long time and want to inspire others.
It doesn't matter if you're still hung over from a three day bender or been sober for years, if you just woke up or have already completed a sober day. For the next 24 hours, lets not drink alcohol!
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**This pledge is a statement of intent.** Today we don't set out *trying* not to drink, we make a conscious decision *not to drink*. It sounds simple, but all of us know it can be hard and sometimes impossible. The group can support and inspire us, yet only one person can decide if we drink today. Give that person the right mindset!
What happens if we can't keep to our pledge? We give up or try again. And since we're here in /r/stopdrinking, we're not ready to give up.
**What this is:** A simple thread where we commit to not drinking alcohol for the next 24 hours, posting to show others that they're not alone and making a pledge to ourselves. Anybody can join and participate at any time, you do not have to be a regular at /r/stopdrinking or have followed the pledges from the beginning.
**What this isn't:** A good place for a detailed introduction of yourself, directly seek advice or share lengthy stories. You'll get a more personal response in your own thread.
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- Europe - Morning
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A link to the current Daily Check-In post can always be found near the top of the sidebar.
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Hey Friends, Happy Hump Day!!! I hope you're enjoying one helluva great week!!! I've shared that I need to be careful to not engage in workaholic behaviors in sobriety. One weird trick that I've enjoyed in sobriety is scheduling "F.I.B." in my calendar every week. I need to be attentive to scheduling my self-care time as much as anything else. F.I.B. stands for hitting the "fuck it button" which I picked up on a StopDrinking post one day. Someone was saying that they missed how alcohol was like hitting a fuck it button and zoning out from the cares of the world. On my F.I.B. night I do whatever the fuck I feel like and don't feel guilty about it. I don't schedule over it for my aging parents (hospitalizations notwithstanding), community stuff, or work. Wednesday night I'll likely celebrate my 1,000 day milestone with a pizza, cigar, and hang out in my backyard. I bet tomorrow's DCI will be about our favorite ways to reward ourselves in sobriety.
Here's my question for you sobernauts: do you have any random, strange, click-baity wEiRd tRiCkS that help you stay sober? If you don't have a click-bait trick maybe just share your favorite sober tool: HALT, play the tape forward, one day at a time, social support, check ins, meetings, exercise, therapy, journaling, higher power, quit lit, etc etc etc...
Whatever tricks, tools, and support you're gonna use today I'll take the pledge with y'all: I will not be drinking alcohol today!!!