Thursday, November 4, 2010

Daily Motivations 11-4-2010

Thursday, November 4, 2010
Today's Gift

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
  —Sigmund Freud

The truth is our friend. It is a rough and humble kind of friend - but a friend nonetheless. Each of us will need to learn to spend time with this friend because it is one that is not easy to escape. It is always turning up when we least expect it. The truth about ourselves is hard to avoid. It seems to knock at our door until we let it in.

Perhaps we have played the game of hide and seek sometime in our lives. Sometimes we tell little lies about ourselves to impress others, or we act in ways that, deep down, we know are not really the way we want to be. We can never be comfortable this way. We know what it is like to hide and try to keep from being found. The truth about us is an expert player. It seeks us out until we put our arms around it and welcome it.

Is there something I am hiding from today?

From Today's Gift: Daily Meditations for Families ©

 

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Twenty-Four Hours A Day
 
Walk In Dry Places
 
Attitude
 
No apologies for sobriety
Now that we are sober, some of us are invited to social events where there is drinking. Now and then, we see raised eyebrows when others learn that we're having only soft drinks. Some of us may respond by explaining that we're alcoholics and cannot take even one drink.  A few recovering alcoholics handle the situation by pretending that they're holding an alcoholic drink---- perhaps enlisting the bartender's aid in making the drink appear to contain liquor.


While it may be useful to tell others about our alcoholism, we are under no obligation to do so, particularly in a drinking environment. At the same time, there's something wrong with pretending that one is still taking alcoholic drinks.

Our best course is to remember that we never have to apologize for not drinking. In a world that makes so much fuss about the right to drink, we surely have a right not to drink, and we do not have to explain why we are not drinking.

Action for the Day: If I find myself in a drinking environment today, I'll handle it with dignity and cheerfulness, but I will not feel I must defend my sobriety to others.
 
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One Day At A Time
 
Moments
For many, many years I lived solely for a time in the future -- the next big event --
or off of the tragedies or amazing accomplishments of the past.
I was unaware that all of life is lived moment by moment.
Being in recovery allows me to be aware and present in those moments,
and every moment provides me with an opportunity for growth.
- The AA Grapevine, November 2010, p. 49

Thought to Ponder . . .
The storm has passed. I've learned a little more about peace.
It was inside all the time.

AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
S I T =
Stay In Today.
 
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Daily Motivation
 
Partnership of success
 
Success is a partnership between thought and action. One without the other will not get you anywhere.
 
If you think about what you do and how you'll do it, but do nothing, the result is failure. If you rush into getting it done without putting any thought into it, that will just as surely bring failure.
 
It's crucial to put some good, solid thinking into what you wish to do. Be careful, though, not to think yourself out of ever getting it done.
 
Whatever your objective, it's absolutely necessary to take action. Yet it is also vital to take appropriate action that is well thought out.
 
You can think and you can do. Each is challenging in its own way, and yet every valuable thing you've ever accomplished has utilized these two skills that you most certainly have.
 
You have what it takes to reach whatever goal you choose. Think and do, then think some more and do some more, and steadily work your way toward success.
 
-- Ralph Marston

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