Step 1 – Admit you are hooked!

May 20, 2009

• It doesn’t matter whether you take off once a day or ten times a day—you are hooked—so why not admit it?
• Quit talking about the big habit or the little habit.  A habit is a habit—you’re either hooked of you’re not hooked—so be honest! If you don’t think you are hooked now—just wait—it won’t be long.
• Quit trying to cut it down yourself—you can’t do it. You know you can’t help yourself so why do you keep trying?
• No one can help you if you just want to control your habit or shoot it up on weekends. There is no such thing as a controlled habit. You will shoot all you can get and you know it.
• Admit to yourself: “I’m a drug addict! I’m hooked! I can’t help myself!” Then you are ready for the next step.

Continue Reading > Step 2. Quit looking for an easy way out!

One Way, by David Wilkerson, Regal Books, 1972

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