Wednesday, January 4, 2017
Today's Gift
Action for the Day: Many opportunities to make choices will arise today. I can be thoughtful and make choices that will lead to my greater wholeness.
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
To stop behaving in a certain way is to risk the unfamiliar. --Jan Lloyd
Old patterns grip us so tightly! Even when the behavior pinches us painfully, we are loathe to give it up. Its familiarity makes it tolerable, knowable, somewhat manageable, and far less scary than trying something new. However, we are truly the luckiest people alive because now we have a training ground where it is safe to try new behaviors. We can discard old, self-defeating patterns.
We are on this path because each of us wants a new life. We have grown sick and tired of the old ways that no longer work. And we have come to believe that change is possible if we look for it in the right place. This is the right place! At any time we can see others who, like us, are trying on new behaviors with success. We are role models for one another, and every time one of us tries a new response to an old situation, we are all heartened and stretched a bit. We know that what another can do, we can do too.
I am in the right place today to let go of the old and try the new. My support is all around me. I will not fear.
From the book A Woman's Spirit by Karen Casey. ©
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
Once I knew that I wanted to be an artist, I had made myself into one. I did not understand that wanting doesn't always lead to action. Many people had been raised without the sense that they could mold and shape their own lives, and so, wanting to be an artist (but without the ability to realize their wants) was, for some of them, only an idle fantasy, like wanting to go to the moon. --Judy Chicago
There are probably not many of us who grappled with life as straight on as Judy Chicago did. It is likely we didn't understand that we could mold and shape our lives. How lucky we are to be learning that now with the help of one another. Each day we are confronted with many opportunities to make responsible choices, reasonable decisions. These choices and decisions are the molders, the shapers, of who we are becoming. Our identity is strengthened each time we thoughtfully make a choice. The action we take through making each choice gives our identity more substance--our wholeness is guaranteed through these choices.
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
Recovery
If you have decided you want what we have and are willing to go to any length to get it
—then you are ready to take certain steps.
At some of these we balked. We thought we could find an easier, softer way.
But we could not. With all the earnestness at our command,
we beg of you to be fearless and thorough from the very start.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 58
Thought to Ponder . . .
If you think you are an alcoholic or addict, chances are you are.
AA-related 'Alconym' . . .
H O P E = Heart Open; Please Enter
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net)
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Daily Motivation
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
Positive habits
by Ralph Marston
Here’s your assignment for the day. Find a habit or long-held assumption that’s holding you back and replace it with a habit that empowers you.
Is there something you do just because it’s comfortable and familiar, that’s not beneficial, or is even harmful? Challenge yourself to think of a more positive replacement.
As you go through the activities of this day, ask yourself about each one. Is it adding richness to your life or is it wasting your precious time?
There is plenty of time available for you to do amazing things. With positive habits, you can train yourself to make the best use of each moment.
There’s no need to be judgmental or regretful about what you’ve been doing. Just pick one thing at a time that hasn’t been serving you, and insert a positive replacement.
Make the choice to program yourself for expanding success in everything you do. Give your life some fresh positive habits, and enjoy the great richness they bring.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
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