If you’re one of those people who believes you can’t start recovering until you’re very motivated, then you’re stuck. Motivation doesn’t operate like a toggle switch that you turn on or off: switch on and you do it, switch off and you don’t. Instead, motivation operates more like a dimmer switch: you can turn it off, but you can also change the level of “on”—from a little on to intensely on. In fact, you require only as much motivation as is necessary for you to try

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