Having to change for many is a time to complain about their bad luck. You might regard having to change your drinking in that way – bad luck. However there is another way to look at it; you could look at it as good luck. Having spent lots of money and time drinking and being intoxicated, if you stop drinking how much money and time will you have? What do you want to do with that time? Is there a place you have always wanted to visit, would the money help you get there? Is there a hobby you have always wanted to pursue, would you have the time now.
Choose to think of the need for change as a positive not a negative.
It’s choice – not chance – that determines your destiny.
Jean Nidetch