Monday, July 31, 2017
Today's Gift
Action for the Day: To be a competent worker, I will seek out the tools that are best suited to my task.
From: Bluidkiti's Alcohol and Drug Addictions Recovery Help/Support Forums Daily Recovery Readings - http://www.bluidkiti.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=2
Fears
We pocket our pride and go to it, illuminating every twist of character,
every dark cranny of the past. Once we have taken this step,
withholding nothing, we are delighted. We can look the world in the eye.
We can be alone at perfect peace and ease. Our fears fall from us.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 75
Thought to Ponder
What I fear I create.
AA-related 'Alconym'
F E A R = Fear Expressed Allows Relief
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net)
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
Joyful purpose
Look at the post as a bullet. Once it's fired it's finished. —Catherine Bauby
Today is before us as an unformed experience. Yesterday took its own shape, and whatever it was has now gone. Our only opportunities exist in what we will do this day. Perhaps we can enhance the day by starting with a review of yesterday and then letting go. What were the major events in our experiences yesterday? How do we feel about them? Is something left unfinished in our feelings or actions that we need to complete or repair today? Can we take yesterday's experience to build a better today?
We have centered ourselves in this day by reviewing where we just came from. We have taken a spot check inventory. Now we can let go of yesterday and move forward in the present. That does not mean we never think about the past again. It means we build on the past by learning from our experiences and letting them shape our activities now. In that way we draw ever closer into accord with the will of our Higher Power.
I will let go of the past by learning from it. I give myself to shaping today.
From Touchstones: A Book of Daily Meditations for Men ©
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
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
-- Abraham Maslow
When we can take a long view of our problems, we can sometimes see that we're using inappropriate tools to try to solve them. What's necessary for us to do is to move away, to detach. That may show us a whole new context into which our problem fits, and in which it may not even be a problem.
Detachment is hard to achieve when we're deeply hooked into a situation. When we send ourselves drastic messages like "now or never!" we're pressing our noses right up against the problem - a position in which it's difficult to maintain a balanced view. To stop and say, "If not now, then perhaps some other time," unhooks us and lets us remember that life is richer and more varied than we thought when we were hooked.
Crisis thinking can be like a hammer - it flattens everything. This can be our way of trying to control the outcome of our individual struggle. But when we remember that we make up only small parts of one grand and beautiful design. We can surrender our problems to it.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
-- Abraham Maslow
When we can take a long view of our problems, we can sometimes see that we're using inappropriate tools to try to solve them. What's necessary for us to do is to move away, to detach. That may show us a whole new context into which our problem fits, and in which it may not even be a problem.
Detachment is hard to achieve when we're deeply hooked into a situation. When we send ourselves drastic messages like "now or never!" we're pressing our noses right up against the problem - a position in which it's difficult to maintain a balanced view. To stop and say, "If not now, then perhaps some other time," unhooks us and lets us remember that life is richer and more varied than we thought when we were hooked.
Crisis thinking can be like a hammer - it flattens everything. This can be our way of trying to control the outcome of our individual struggle. But when we remember that we make up only small parts of one grand and beautiful design. We can surrender our problems to it.
Action for the Day: To be a competent worker, I will seek out the tools that are best suited to my task.
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
Fears
We pocket our pride and go to it, illuminating every twist of character,
every dark cranny of the past. Once we have taken this step,
withholding nothing, we are delighted. We can look the world in the eye.
We can be alone at perfect peace and ease. Our fears fall from us.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 75
Thought to Ponder
What I fear I create.
AA-related 'Alconym'
F E A R = Fear Expressed Allows Relief
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net)
Joyful purpose
by Ralph Marston
Discard the doubts. Focus on the work.
Ignore the distractions. Glide right on past the interruptions.
You have good, meaningful, significant work to do. Don’t let shallow, trivial things get in your way.
Expel all the negativity, worries, excuses from your awareness. Breathe in fresh new energy, enthusiasm, vision, and put it all to use.
Feel the joy, the rightness of making good things happen. Remind yourself how silly it is to let anything get you down.
Look forward, and see all the great value there is to create. With joyful purpose, keep bringing that value to life.
Discard the doubts. Focus on the work.
Ignore the distractions. Glide right on past the interruptions.
You have good, meaningful, significant work to do. Don’t let shallow, trivial things get in your way.
Expel all the negativity, worries, excuses from your awareness. Breathe in fresh new energy, enthusiasm, vision, and put it all to use.
Feel the joy, the rightness of making good things happen. Remind yourself how silly it is to let anything get you down.
Look forward, and see all the great value there is to create. With joyful purpose, keep bringing that value to life.
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