Keeping your 'house' clean from here on...

"If we are sorry for what we have done, and have the honest desire to let God take us to better things, we believe we will be forgiven and will have learned our lesson. If we are not sorry, and our conduct continues to harm others, we are quite sure to drink. We are not theorizing. These are facts out of our experience."~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, How It Works, pg. 70~

At some point in time a decision must be made as to your commitment to letting go of the old ways you had been living and starting to live anew. Working a proven set of steps, like in AA and similar programs, WILL get you to that spot, but the steps must be done wholeheartedly and with conviction. Without working the steps, getting a sponsor, going to the meetings, and helping others you can become complacent and slip into a state of mind where you may think certain activities will be OK THIS ONE time. This kind of behavior is what cause 'clutter' to start building up in your house again. When it gets so cluttered that it seems hopeless that is when you slip, backslide, and relapse back to where you were before with thinking you will start cleaning your act up tomorrow or the next day, or...