Nick Bendle

It's year 27 of sobriety for me, and I still take it one day at a time. I started with 18 things I needed to fix about myself. I only focused on two: recommitting my life to Christ and getting sober. I don't even know what the other 16 were. Turns out, I didn't need to. I just went to work on becoming the best version of myself. I didn't try and do it overnight. It was one day at a time. Truthfully, that old slogan, one day at a time, I just tried to have a good day today. My jackass man mentality had me thinking "I dug myself in this hole, I'll dig myself out." Brilliant plan, right? The same guy who drove the car into the ditch was going to get it out. But then I started asking for help. Asking for help became my superpower. When I stopped trying to fix everything at once and just tried to have a good day today, life started making sense again. Recovery isn't perfect, but neither am I. I'm just a man who found a way to make himself happy so he could have a chance at making others happy too.