Hey everyone, just curious if anyone's open to sharing. Who here is in recovery from addictions? Myself, I just hit my 10-year sobriety date in July ❤️ I share this openly because today I work as an addictions counselor and I help people that were or that are in the place I once was. I'm not somebody that hides behind the label of anonymity, not that there's anything wrong with that. I just choose not to so people can see that it is possible and you can succeed 😁 This is not a promotional post. This is me offering this post to share your success or struggles. Also if you ever want to chat, feel free to send me a DM. I have no problem sharing my knowledge in the area for free 😉

Catch? You need to be Level 3. Join today, jump in the feed, and you'll get there. (We will help 😉) > SKOOLIGANS Real owners will look at your page and share what they would do ❓ We are growing FAST! Get in on this while it's still offered 🤯 When you're in! Tag me in the pinned post and I will personally do my best to level you up so you don't miss this awesome opportunity 😉

It's been a while since I have posted in the Skool hub. I'll tell you, this consistency thing is challenging on Skool. I don't even know how long I've been doing it now. It feels like a long time and I've definitely lost my flame a few times 😭😂 I started out with a fairly successful group called ADHD Over 40. However I just recently archived that because it wasn't really going in the direction that I originally intended on Skool. You see I already help people on a daily basis in my full-time day job so Skool was meant to be something different for my other side hobbies, like AI. I then started a community. This was a very short-lived one called Gemini Jumpstart because after I had it going I realized, "Well this community sucks." That one's gone now. Now I'm part of a community called Skooligans that many of you probably know about, which has been a lot of fun. Currently I'm finally taking my time in creating a new community, which I'm not ready to share yet. This one is going to be the product of everything that I have learned along the way and I think it's going to be a lot of fun. I'm hoping to muster up the energy and inspiration to contribute to this community and others like I once did before, because to be honest that's all you really have to do on Skool. You've just got to be seen and you will succeed. Anyway I'm curious what your experience on Skool has been so far ? This is on the edge of self-promotion so I added it to advertise your community; however that's not really my intention 😂

She also wants to hear you guys sing…😅😭 one person that sings in the comments will get a post put up right now in the hub!!🎉

For most of my life, I thought I was chasing something. Money. Success. A better house. Another idea. Another business. Another chance to finally become the person I kept telling myself I could be. I was always looking towards the next thing. It took me a long time to realise that life wasn’t waiting for me at the finish line. It was happening the whole time. It was there in the ordinary evenings when everyone I loved was under the same roof. It was in the sound of my daughters laughing. It was in the ridiculous conversations, the drives with nowhere particularly important to be, the ideas that probably weren’t going to work but that I couldn’t stop thinking about anyway. It was in being Dad. And if you asked me now what I’m proudest of, I wouldn’t give you a number. I wouldn’t tell you how much money I eventually made, how many people watched my videos, which mad business idea actually worked, or whether I ever became the successful bloke I spent so many years trying to turn myself into. I’d tell you about my girls. I’d tell you that they grew up knowing their dad loved them. That I was there. Not perfectly. Not without getting things wrong. But there. I’d tell you that somewhere along the way, the frightened young lad trying to work out where he belonged became the man his children ran to when they needed to feel safe. And perhaps that was the great plot twist of my life. I spent years believing I needed to become somebody. I already was somebody. I was their dad. I was her partner. I was Joey. A bloke with a head full of ideas, a tendency to dream far bigger than was sensible, and an almost irritating refusal to believe that tomorrow couldn’t be better than today. There were chapters I once wished I could tear out. I wouldn’t now. Take away the wrong turns and you change the road. Change the road and maybe I don’t end up here. So I’ll keep every page. The embarrassing ones. The painful ones. The funny ones. The ones where absolutely nothing went according to plan.