New ventures keep our lives interesting, grounded and connected.

I am beginning a very new venture tonight.  It’s an on-line course based on my newest book, GETTING UNSTUCK.  The link to the course is: http://www.entheos.com/academy/courses/Getting-Unstuck should you have an interest in signing up.  It’s not too late!  I love offering workshops and this will be similar, just no travel involved.  I sit in my study in front of my computer, talk live by phone to participants who can ask questions and make comments, as they refer to the outline of the points for discussion which will have been sent to them beforehand.  Everyone who signs up gets the outline.

Another great aspect of this course, (and there are four classes, one a week) is that the participants can download an MP3 of each class the following day if they want to listen again or if they had to miss it all together at the time it was being offered live.  In fact, these downloads will be part of the academy’s library from now on which means that you can share the course information with friends who might want to take it too, on their own, at a later time.  The fact that the on-line workshop/course will be available for years to come is a terrific added feature, for the teachers as well as the participants.

I’m glad I have lived long enough to actively participate in these 21st century internet opportunities.  I can’t even imagine what the next internet opportunity might look like.  But I can assure you, I will be an eager participant.  I owe my continuing interest in new ideas, new ventures and the desire for new growth opportunities to my continuing commitment to recovery.  Had I not remained on “the path” since 1974, my life would likely be in shambles.  For sure I wouldn’t have written the many books that carry my name.  (See the book section on my website for the complete listing.) Nor would I be sharing the wisdom I have learned from the many others I have come to know and cherish in the rooms of Al-Anon and AA.  I doubt not, at all, that I have been “called” to do exactly what I do.

I am so grateful to all of you who have touched my life over these many years.  I believe that we met, either in the flesh, through an email, a book or on-line in one of my blogs, quite intentionally.  There are no accidents!  That was one of the first things I learned in the fellowship rooms and I was reassured of it in the small booklet: Acceptance, that was freely given to many of us by a sponsor or a friend when we first came into a recovery room.  Knowing that I have always been where God has needed me to be is so reassuring.  I’m convinced this fact of my life, and yours too, will never change.  Being able to count on something that has given me so much, knowing that this will always be the case, gives me quiet contentment.  What a blessing.