You Can’t Fix Everything at Once
I walked out of the Mental Health Center and another 12-Step meeting.
I had spent an hour listening to the group confess their multiple addictions and pledge to work on them. I listened as one elderly gentleman swore that attending those meetings for 30 years had saved his life.
Something troubled me. I didn’t want to spend the rest of my life going to meetings. I wanted complete Freedom, with a capital F. And what really troubled me was how could anyone possibly fix multiple addictions at once?
“Wait a minute,” I thought! “That’s exactly what I do.
I have a laundry list of problems and I say I’m going to solve them all, but nothing budges. If I really think about it, you can’t ever fix more than one problem at a time. Maybe I better focus all of my energy on fixing just one thing!”


