From the Beach

 Each year for the past 25 years I've been taking my family on a vacation to Imperial Beach in California.  

And it's very rewarding in so many ways. For one thing, it's a chance to get out of the Arizona desert for a week. And for another thing it's a chance to catch up with family members face-to-face, instead of on the telephone.  And it's good for me to be far away from business because I sometimes can get a different perspective on it when I look at it from a distance.

Also, because I bring family members with me who also work at TLC, it's a chance for us to talk about different ideas to improve the quality of the program.  In fact, our treatment program was born in Las Vegas when we all were at a restaurant talking about what it would take to start a State licensed treatment program. 

As it turned out, I had the building and office space. Another person had insurance experience and knew all about billing insurance companies for treating clients. And yet another person had lengthy experience in creating and operating treatment programs. There's something about being away from your normal environment that helps stimulate a person's creative juices.

In any case by January 2012 we had taken our first patient into the treatment program and it has been successful ever since.

We haven't come up with any new plans so far this week. And maybe we won't. But the one thing we have accomplished is getting plenty of rest and recreation.

Just enjoying the fruits of our labors and the benefits of sobriety.

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