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Author Jim LunsfordPosted on 02-10-202602-10-2026Categories Articles, Discipline, Fitness, Lessons & Stories, Life Beyond Recovery, Mindset, Nutrition, Recovery, Resilience, Speaking & Coaching, Strategy & Tools

Jim Lunsford is a writer, speaker, and recovery coach based in Columbus, Indiana, focused on discipline, ownership, and building a life you don’t want to escape.

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Articles

Longform writing on discipline, resilience, recovery, and growth for those committed to building strength, clarity, and lasting change.

Start Here: Raise Your Standards
The Difference Between Staying Sober and Building a Life
Why Life Feels Empty After Early Recovery
What Recovery Requires After Sobriety
Freedom and Discipline: Freedom Without Discipline Becomes Chaos

Notes

Working thoughts, reflections, and observations shared for those who value clarity, awareness, and continual refinement.

When Endurance Becomes Self-Betrayal
Forecasts Are Not Decisions
You Can’t Build a Future While Protecting a Past Identity
Alignment
Why This Site Looks the Way It Does

Recovery Standards

Direct writing on stability, standards, and self-governance for those committed to lasting recovery.

Recovery Standard: Fewer Choices, More Safety
Recovery Standard: Borrowed Discipline
Start Here: What are Recovery Standards

The Discipline Dispatch

Direct writing on ownership, discipline, identity, and standards for those ready to stop negotiating with their potential.

Discipline Dispatch: All In or All Out
Start Here: What Is The Discipline Dispatch
Discipline Dispatch: Ownership Is Freedom

Recovery Beyond AA

I write long-form essays here examining AA’s foundations and presenting discipline, ownership, and agency as an alternative.

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I’m the author of 10 Things I’ve Learned in 10 Years of Sobriety. My Amazon author page lists the book and any future published work.

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Microblog

I keep short personal notes and observations here.

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