Monday, September 17, 2018
Today's Gift
Action for the Day: TODAY - Let me realize I am far more positive and productive when I concentrate my efforts and thoughts on changing myself and my own actions. Give me the courage to act on my own internal wisdom.
Change
Change is the characteristic of all growth. From drinking to sobriety,
from dishonesty to honesty, from conflict to serenity, from hate to love,
from childish dependence to adult responsibility -- all this and infinitely
more represent change for the better. . .
Only our Higher Power is unchanging; only They have has all the truth there is.
- As Bill Sees It, p. 76
Thought to Ponder
If I don't change, my sobriety date will.
AA-related 'Alconym'
C H A N G E = Choosing Honesty Allows New Growth Everyday
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
Now is your chance
Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting. —William Shakespeare
An important part of our lives is simply tending to our basic needs - sitting down daily to share a meal with loved ones, getting enough sleep, setting time aside for haircuts and polishing shoes, spending leisure time with friends. Paying attention to these things only when they become crises makes our lives unbalanced and crisis oriented. Many have neglected themselves because they felt it was the mark of a tough person. Others have been so lost in people pleasing that a respectful self-caring life was not possible.
As we regain our self-respect, we find balance in the basics. Self-love allows us to be responsible for our care, and it puts us in a stronger position to help others, to be creative, and to assert our right to self-care.
Today, I will look after the essentials of my personal care before I take on other things.
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
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterward, when you've worked on your own corner. --Aldous Huxley
Taking responsibility for our own attitudes, actions, and neglects is far more difficult than managing and directing other people's lives.
Giving advice to another, for example, is much easier that practicing what we preach. If we would apply our advice to our own lives, we would have less time to criticize, correct, or interfere in someone else's difficulties. Moreover, we would be amazed at how many alternatives we have within our own grasp that could solve, or at least alleviate, the problems in our lives.
Taking responsibility for our own attitudes, actions, and neglects is far more difficult than managing and directing other people's lives.
Giving advice to another, for example, is much easier that practicing what we preach. If we would apply our advice to our own lives, we would have less time to criticize, correct, or interfere in someone else's difficulties. Moreover, we would be amazed at how many alternatives we have within our own grasp that could solve, or at least alleviate, the problems in our lives.
Action for the Day: TODAY - Let me realize I am far more positive and productive when I concentrate my efforts and thoughts on changing myself and my own actions. Give me the courage to act on my own internal wisdom.
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
Change is the characteristic of all growth. From drinking to sobriety,
from dishonesty to honesty, from conflict to serenity, from hate to love,
from childish dependence to adult responsibility -- all this and infinitely
more represent change for the better. . .
Only our Higher Power is unchanging; only They have has all the truth there is.
- As Bill Sees It, p. 76
Thought to Ponder
If I don't change, my sobriety date will.
AA-related 'Alconym'
C H A N G E = Choosing Honesty Allows New Growth Everyday
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net)
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
Now is your chance
by Ralph Marston
Now is your chance to be finally free of anything you’ve been doing to hold yourself back. Now is your chance to live in the way you most fondly imagine.
Now is your chance to make positive use of all that your experience has taught you. Now is your chance to put into practice your highest and best ideals.
Now is your chance to forgive, and to leave all the pain of the past in the past. Now is your chance to create new goodness with sincere, authentic, loving intention.
Now is your chance to put your highest hopes into action. Now is your chance to step boldly beyond the grip of your fears.
Now is your chance to see new possibilities, and to live them with everything in you. Now is your chance to encourage, to love, to give, to heal.
Somewhere deep within, you know how good and beautiful it can be to be you. Now is your chance to bring that vision fully to life.
Now is your chance to be finally free of anything you’ve been doing to hold yourself back. Now is your chance to live in the way you most fondly imagine.
Now is your chance to make positive use of all that your experience has taught you. Now is your chance to put into practice your highest and best ideals.
Now is your chance to forgive, and to leave all the pain of the past in the past. Now is your chance to create new goodness with sincere, authentic, loving intention.
Now is your chance to put your highest hopes into action. Now is your chance to step boldly beyond the grip of your fears.
Now is your chance to see new possibilities, and to live them with everything in you. Now is your chance to encourage, to love, to give, to heal.
Somewhere deep within, you know how good and beautiful it can be to be you. Now is your chance to bring that vision fully to life.
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