Your Impact Tree: How your behaviors and moods effect others

Ep #156 - Your influence spans well beyond just the immediate people you interact with on any given day. Your choices to wake up sober or hungover can impact the lives of people 3, 4, 5, 6, etc. circles beyond you. This Impact Tree won't necessarily be a motivator to use or not use - if that were the case then we'd all have stopped after someone cried for our health and safety as addicts. What this episode discusses is how you can take the internal thought of how your addiction effects people and how you can externalize that by making a sort of mind-map out of your impact tree. Below I am putting the notes I made up for the show so you can see possible impact scenarios that I wrote out. The key to creating your own Impact Tree is to remember you are not seeking the PROBABILITY that an impact will occur - rather it is the POSSIBILITY that the impact event can occur from your initial event of waking up sober or hungover/drunk. Covid example: initial event: covid first order: people get sick second order: places shut down third order: things dont get made fourth order: shelves empty fifth order: people panic sixth order: run on stores - 4th order repeats LOOP established YOU initial event: sober 1: wake up sober 2: in a good/decent/better mood than waking up hungover 3: nicer to people 4: everyone starts day off in a better place 5: go to work and are nicer 6: those you touch/effect have pleasant experiences  7: they go off and pay it forward 8: your impact tree grow exponentially 9: go home in good/decent/better mood than spending the whole day hungover 10: good dinner/meal/time together 11: the loop is established YOU initial event: drunk 1: wake up hungover 2: not nice to people 3: they are mean to you 4a: you are meaner back 4b: they leave the house and are in bad mood 5a: huge arguments ensue  5b: mean to co-workers 6a: both in bad mood 6b: co-workers in bad mood 7: everyone has bad day 8: arguments ensue 9: go home pissed off 10: drink and or argue 11: THE LOOP is established   It is time. It has been time. To live is to shine. Step into the SUN. Just hit play and let's dive in with our open minds, hearts, and energies bringing everyone into the fold - you are in the right place, at the right time...right now. Stand up, step forward, raise your hand - it's your turn, I will call on you. ******************************************** Thank you so much for listening and being a part of my tribe and this wonderfully supportive community. Here's to the ending of the stigma. No longer are we living in the shadows! Also, please subscribe, rate, and review the show to help us spread the word about this awesome free content. Your simple action of rating and reviewing does wonders in helping others find the show. If you listen on iTunes I could really use the bump in their algorithm! If you have questions you'd like addressed on the show, want to book me to speak at an event, or want to recommend or be a guest on this show, please contact me through any of the social media links below or via email. I am generally open to being on your show too so reach out and let's pod-swap :) Feel free to contact me here for any other reason as well: The HUB: https://www.jessemogle.com/thehub/ Tik Tok: http://www.tiktok.com/@jessemogle Instagram: https://instagram.com/fromsobrietytorecovery Facebook: https://facebook.com/fromsobrietytorecovery Twitter: https://twitter.com/jessemogle LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessemogle/ Email: [email protected]