Monday, September 19, 2016
Today's Gift
The role of victim is all too familiar to many of us. Life did us injustices--we thought. And we passively waited for circumstances to change. Nothing was our fault. That we were willing participants to victimization is an awareness not easily accepted, but true nonetheless.
Victims no more, we are actors, now. And since committing ourselves to this program, we have readily available a willing and very able director for our role in life. Every event invites an action, and we have opted for the responsible life.
Depression may be on the fringes of our consciousness today. But it need not become our state of mind. The antidote is and always will be action, responsible action. Every concern, every experience wants our attention, our active attention.
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
Better than you’ve been
by Ralph Marston
Decide today to be better than you’ve been. Commit to raise your life to a higher level.
Start with your thoughts, letting go of the ones that hold you down. Replace them with thoughts of excellence, of possibility, with visions of achievement.
Next, raise your expectations. You deserve to do more, to be more, to understand more, so expect it without question.
Then, push yourself into constant, effective action. Invest great effort, driven by your higher thoughts and expectations.
You can be better than you’ve been, reach higher than you’ve reached, and do much more than you’ve done. You get to be the person who makes all that happen.
Inject the power of passion and purpose into every experience. Choose to get better, act to get better, every moment, every day.
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied. --Pearl S. Buck
We make mistakes because we are human, we are imperfect, we are frequently out of touch with the rhythms of the moment. When our minds are one place, either still trapped by the past or in limbo due to fear of the future, we fail to revere the experience of the present. And only when we salute completely the moment do we respond accurately to its meaning.
Seldom is a mistake as important as we allow it to be. Always we can rechart our steps; never is a task completed without some modifications along the way. Perhaps we'd do well to consider all mistakes as simply modifications in the original plans. Corrections triggered by mistakes may well be responsible for better outcomes. In fact, mistakes may be part of the process necessary to keep our spiritual selves focused. Their role in our lives may be of greater significance than we'd ever imagined. However, we shouldn't dwell on the mistake but, rather, on the remedy.
Today I'll have to modify my steps, probably a few times. And that's to be expected.
From the book The Promise of a New Day by Karen Casey & Martha Vanceburg. ©
From: Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation - Thought for the Day http://www.hazeldenbettyford.org/recovery/thought-for-the-day
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Twenty-Four Hours a Day
Keep It Simple
...concern should drive us into action and not into depression. --Karen Horney
...concern should drive us into action and not into depression. --Karen Horney
The role of victim is all too familiar to many of us. Life did us injustices--we thought. And we passively waited for circumstances to change. Nothing was our fault. That we were willing participants to victimization is an awareness not easily accepted, but true nonetheless.
Victims no more, we are actors, now. And since committing ourselves to this program, we have readily available a willing and very able director for our role in life. Every event invites an action, and we have opted for the responsible life.
Depression may be on the fringes of our consciousness today. But it need not become our state of mind. The antidote is and always will be action, responsible action. Every concern, every experience wants our attention, our active attention.
Action for the Day: Today stretches before me, an unknown quantity. Concerns will crowd upon me, but guidance regarding the best action to take is always available to me.
From: Bluidkiti's Alcohol and Drug Addictions Recovery Help/Support Forums
Courage
Courage to face each day has replaced the fears and uncertainty of earlier years.
Acceptance of things as they are has replaced the old impatient champing at the bit to conquer the world.
I have stopped tilting at windmills and, instead, have tried to accomplish the little daily tasks, unimportant in themselves, but tasks that are an integral part of living fully.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 266
Thought to Ponder . . .
Courage is fear in action.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
A A = Attitude Adjustment
From: Bluidkiti's Alcohol and Drug Addictions Recovery Help/Support Forums
Daily Recovery Readings - http://www.bluidkiti.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=2
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One Day At A Time
Courage
Courage to face each day has replaced the fears and uncertainty of earlier years.
Acceptance of things as they are has replaced the old impatient champing at the bit to conquer the world.
I have stopped tilting at windmills and, instead, have tried to accomplish the little daily tasks, unimportant in themselves, but tasks that are an integral part of living fully.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 266
Thought to Ponder . . .
Courage is fear in action.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
A A = Attitude Adjustment
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net)
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Daily Motivation
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
Better than you’ve been
by Ralph Marston
Decide today to be better than you’ve been. Commit to raise your life to a higher level.
Start with your thoughts, letting go of the ones that hold you down. Replace them with thoughts of excellence, of possibility, with visions of achievement.
Next, raise your expectations. You deserve to do more, to be more, to understand more, so expect it without question.
Then, push yourself into constant, effective action. Invest great effort, driven by your higher thoughts and expectations.
You can be better than you’ve been, reach higher than you’ve reached, and do much more than you’ve done. You get to be the person who makes all that happen.
Inject the power of passion and purpose into every experience. Choose to get better, act to get better, every moment, every day.
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