A New Beginning

Today marks a new beginning for this "Diary of an Addict." Up until now, I have done much of my web blogging as D-Monk on a page in StumbleUpon, saving only more serious, addiction related posts for this Blog.

But as of yesterday, the "fun police" within my company's IT department have blocked out access to SU while at work. Since work is when I do most of my posting, SU is no longer a viable option for me. So the "Diary of an Addict" Blog will now become my all-purpose blog.

That having been said, you will see more types of entries on this page. I will be including regular "Gratefulness Journal" entries. I use these to remind me of all of the good things in my life. This is considered an important exercise to improve one's general level of happiness.

The gratefulness journal exercises underscore a certain truth about life. There are things in life we can change and things that we cannot. There are also certain perceptions about life we can change and some that we cannot. An important example of this is whether I tend to measure my satisfaction in life based on my own accomplishments or based more on what I see happening to people around me. When I use others as a reference point, I will increase my level of frustration because there will always be people who seem to have more or accomplish more than me. Rather than allowing others to control my level of self satisfaction, I can look at things I am grateful for in life and keep the focus on my own goals and objectives.

You will also see somewhat regular postings on weather and on running. I write these postings for myself. With the weather, I like to record daily conditions so I can go back in future years and see what the weather was like. With running, I juts like to keep track of when and how far I go. It's a good motivator and gives me a feeling of accomplishment.

Despite all these additional postings, I have no illusions about readership. I don't believe I have any regular readers and would not be surprised if there are no readers of this blog. Thats ok. This blog is an exercise for me, to help me improve my enjoyment of life and work on recovering from addiction.

If perchance there are readers out there, then I hope this blog either helps you or entertains you.

God Bless!

D-Monk