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This Daily Recovery Solution Planner was designed by persons in recovery, for persons in recovery. Who knows better the true meaning of "one day at a time" than persons who have to live it and believe it as if their very lives depended on it? Our own personal journeys were so positively affected by this handy and conveniently packaged "recovery control center" that we wanted to share it for others' use.

It is our intention that this simple planner be a vital and useful tool from your toolkit in your daily quest to live an addiction free life. It is intended only to enhance the recovery process and not to replace any of the valuable resources already at any 12 stepper's disposal. It is offered in the truest spirit of love and hope.

The primary purpose of the Daily Recovery Solution Planner centers on useful reminders and practical measures. Many in recovery consider these to be vital to their ongoing daily quest toward a return to sanity.

Each part of the calendar pages was carefully considered to give you the best chance of continued and daily recovery for a new life of peace, harmony, and serenity.

The simplest and most basic function of the Daily Recovery Solution Planner is, of course, the day/hour calendar itself. Chronic sufferers of addiction often drift into destructive behaviors that can be easily avoided by simple time management. While we approach our recovery “one day at a time”, it is helpful to approach our days one hour at a time. By managing our time, we manage our addictions.

Most in recovery agree that there are a few simple, daily tasks and prayers that are considered vital to maintain harmony and balance in life, and will help minimize the likelihood of a relapse. These proven lifesaving tasks have been reduced to a simple but important checklist. If practiced daily, these tasks will give every sufferer the greatest chance at long-term recovery. The simple, daily practice of checking these items off your list make them a natural part of your positive behavior restructuring behavior.

Each calendar page has space provided to daily list and track your fears, resentments, and ‘gratitude-s’ – we have found these to be the most beneficial part of your recovery, both daily and long term. By daily identifying and listing specific things, situations, and/or people that we most fear and resent, we break them down and can overcome them one by one – until they no longer block our efforts to remain free of the bondage of our addictions. By listing them on paper and considering them individually, they cease to be overwhelming and tend to lose their destructive power over us.

In the same way fears and resentments seemingly overpower the sufferer, gratitude-s virtually destroy their negative impact. By listing daily all the things in your life for which you are grateful – no matter how insignificant – you not only find immediate relief from stress caused by fears and resentments but also have a constant and ongoing proof of your recovery progress. You will quickly learn of the great joy of looking back on past lists of fears, resentments, and gratitudes that milestone your recovery progress. As your fear and resentment lists diminish, your gratitude list grows and grows. It is indeed a miracle to see the proof of your recovery as it occurs. We like to believe that for most people this will become their favorite daily task.

Twelve-step recovery is spiritual in nature. For that reason, steps three and seven include vital prayers offered to the God of your understanding and are included as they are the essence of spiritual recovery. While repetition will eventually fix them into your memory, having them handy to read daily can often remind us of our purpose.

Most people, having completed a twelve-step program and having had a spiritual awakening as a result of those steps, come to believe that to continue to live in the solution is to practice the precepts and the principles of steps ten, eleven, and twelve for the rest of their lives. They have been added to the daily checklist to remind you to ask yourself “am I living in the solution today?” These steps are commonly referred to as maintenance and growth steps, which we believe is accurate and appropriate.

Space has been set aside for notes on meetings and future topics for meeting discussions. Often at meetings you may have a relevant thought or question which you not be able to address then, but which may be vital to your recovery process. By taking your Daily Recovery Solution Planner to every meeting, you can note those important thoughts as topics for discussion at future meetings, giving you yet another reason to “keep coming back” because this planner will “work if you work it”.

The top of each page lists our suggestions for daily meditation, designed to be inspirational and thought provoking to help you tap into your Higher Power, as you understand Him. We found in our own 12-step recovery process that we didn’t know how to begin the habit of daily meditation, and believe others have the same struggle. We believe meditation is focusing upon uplifting messages – if you can worry, you can meditate, by “worrying about positive things” – and our suggestions were created to be universal with no particular bias.

We feel that the Daily Recovery Solution Planner, if used as intended, is more of a necessity than a luxury. Daily use can be a wonderful recovery tool to mark the positive changes in your life and recovery process.

It is our sincere hope that you will find this Daily Recovery Solution Planner to be a fine companion and great asset to your daily life of freedom, happiness, and joy; and that you will want to recommend it to others who suffer – as that is, ultimately – our final callings.

May the God Of Your Understanding Bless You.

Following is the story of Daily Recovery co-creator Robert Kelly:

Robert Kelly is a recovered alcoholic/addict and born-again Christian, and has made it his life's mission to help those addicted or affected by addiction. To that end, he works with victims of the disease of addiction in the southwestern United States, California, and the U.K., including co-creating the world's first Daily Recovery Solutions Planner to assist those addicted with their daily prayers, steps, and tasks. Robert and his business partner designed the daily planner to help people with any kind of addiction. Available now for anyone in recovery or in any 12-step program, it can be a vital daily tool to recover from their addiction.

Robert is a native of Britain and an Honors Graduate of Oxford University, and a member of the Royal Town and Planning Institute, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, and the fellowship of the Board of Directors of the U.K. In his twenties, he was a national, award-winning, titled body builder. Robert is a songwriter and performing musician, and since the age of nine has been on stage and in studio sessions with the elite of UK's entertainers, including Robbie Williams, the top performer of the UK, and many others, including Queen, The Verve, and Oasis, to name a few. Rob has published and recorded many works, including #1 songs in England/Ireland. For 12 years, he was a one of the elite undercover U.K. police detectives licensed for firearms. Upon leaving the police force, Robert entered into the business world as a top executive for communications companies, becoming the Managing Director for the top mobile phone company in the U.K., then spun off into his own business ventures.

Robert has many years of sobriety. Before achieving sobriety, he was a hopeless, chronic alcoholic, and had lost millions of dollars, his business, his home, wife, and children. For a time, Robert was homeless and lived on the street, asking for handouts to purchase liquor.

While homeless, Robert was arrested several times, prone to blackouts that lasted for months, and was assaulted physically and sexually. He had several near brushes with death, including blood loss from injuries during blackouts and an attempted suicide.

To this day, he does not know how he was found or survived, as is common in many suicide attempts, he had given no indication or “cry for help” – so great was his despair of his alcoholic and addictive condition.

Once Robert had recovered, it was his life's mission to assist and help other hopeless, chronic alcoholics and addicts. He traveled throughout the United Kingdom assisting various groups and members, providing testimonials and presentations, as well as sponsoring many and providing interventions as needed on a 24-hour basis.

Robert provided regular instruction to students of all ages at schools throughout the United Kingdom, including Oxford, Cambridge, and Manchester Universities. He also provided alcohol and addiction presentations to the corporate sector as well, and has worked with many worldwide top celebrities in sports and entertainment arenas .Robert’s interest in charitable fundraising includes many participations in walks, and, to benefit breast cancer, was part of a team who swam icy waters of the English Channel. Through presentations, consultations, and educational seminars, he now helps people with all types of addictions.

Recently Robert has relocated to the United States, basing in Dallas, and continues his outreaches and interventions in the southwestern states and California; and through his work with internet-based Box Radio, various contacts, and correspondence/phone conferences, with the U.K.
“Recovering America, Recovering the World” is his mission statement……