Monday, March 11, 2019
Today's Gift
It is healthier to see the good points of others than to analyze our own bad ones. --Francoise Sagan
Looking for the good in others is good for one's soul. Self-respect, self-love grows each time we openly acknowledge another's admirable qualities. Comparisons we make of ourselves with others, focusing on how we fail to measure up (another is better looking, thinner, more intelligent, has a better sense of humor, attracts people, and on and on) is a common experience. And we come away from the comparison feeling generally inadequate and unloving toward the other woman.
It is a spiritual truth that our love for and praise of others will improve our own self-image. It will rub off on us, so-to-speak. An improved self-image diminishes whatever bad qualities one has imagined.
Praise softens. Criticism hardens. We can become all that we want to become. We can draw the love of others to us as we more willingly offer love and praise. We have an opportunity to help one another as we help ourselves grow in the self-love that is so necessary to the successful living of each day.
Acceptance
For it is only by accepting and solving our problems that we can
begin to get right with ourselves and with the world about us,
and with Him who presides over us all. Understanding is the key to
right principles and attitudes, and right action is the key to good living;
therefore the joy of good living is the theme of A.A.’s Twelfth Step.
- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Twelve) p. 125
Thought to Ponder
The Three A's .. Awareness, Acceptance, Action.
AA-related 'Alconym'
P A C K = Positive Action Creates Knowledge
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
Live your worthiness
The older you get the more you realize that kindness is synonymous with happiness. --Lionel Barrymore
Once in a while, we forget about the kind things people have done for us. Do we remember the next-door neighbor who helped us get our kite out of a tree, or the brother who helped us finish a project for school? If we think about these kindnesses, we will remember how happy we were to receive them.
These people and others may need a kindness we can give. Our next-door neighbor may get sick and need us to go to the store, a brother or sister may need to borrow a radio, or the elderly person down the street may need the lawn mowed. Whenever we take the time to give a kindness, we will find that like the boomerang, it returns to us in the form of happiness.
Will I be alert to my chances to give kindness today?
From Today's Gift: Daily Meditations for Families ©
From: Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation - Thought for the Day http://www.hazeldenbettyford.org/recovery/thought-for-the-day
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Looking for the good in others is good for one's soul. Self-respect, self-love grows each time we openly acknowledge another's admirable qualities. Comparisons we make of ourselves with others, focusing on how we fail to measure up (another is better looking, thinner, more intelligent, has a better sense of humor, attracts people, and on and on) is a common experience. And we come away from the comparison feeling generally inadequate and unloving toward the other woman.
It is a spiritual truth that our love for and praise of others will improve our own self-image. It will rub off on us, so-to-speak. An improved self-image diminishes whatever bad qualities one has imagined.
Praise softens. Criticism hardens. We can become all that we want to become. We can draw the love of others to us as we more willingly offer love and praise. We have an opportunity to help one another as we help ourselves grow in the self-love that is so necessary to the successful living of each day.
Action for the Day: I will see the good points in others today. And I will give praise.
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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Acceptance
For it is only by accepting and solving our problems that we can
begin to get right with ourselves and with the world about us,
and with Him who presides over us all. Understanding is the key to
right principles and attitudes, and right action is the key to good living;
therefore the joy of good living is the theme of A.A.’s Twelfth Step.
- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Twelve) p. 125
Thought to Ponder
The Three A's .. Awareness, Acceptance, Action.
AA-related 'Alconym'
P A C K = Positive Action Creates Knowledge
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net)
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
by Ralph Marston
Be good to yourself. And live in such a way that you can justify that goodness.
Take the time and the care to treat yourself well. And let it motivate you to be deserving of that good treatment.
Your actions and thoughts help to build and to make sense of the world. Work each day to bring the world you actually inhabit a little closer to the ideal world for which you long.
What you do right now matters very much. Let that be both a source of continuing joy and a persistent, driving challenge to give your best.
Be a positive influence on yourself so that you’re enabled and inspired to be a positive influence on life. Be genuinely valuable to yourself, in deed and thought, and you’ll have great value to offer those around you.
It helps no one for you to be thoughtless or negligent, or worse, toward yourself. Embrace and live your worthiness, and generously extend that worthiness to all of life.
Be good to yourself. And live in such a way that you can justify that goodness.
Take the time and the care to treat yourself well. And let it motivate you to be deserving of that good treatment.
Your actions and thoughts help to build and to make sense of the world. Work each day to bring the world you actually inhabit a little closer to the ideal world for which you long.
What you do right now matters very much. Let that be both a source of continuing joy and a persistent, driving challenge to give your best.
Be a positive influence on yourself so that you’re enabled and inspired to be a positive influence on life. Be genuinely valuable to yourself, in deed and thought, and you’ll have great value to offer those around you.
It helps no one for you to be thoughtless or negligent, or worse, toward yourself. Embrace and live your worthiness, and generously extend that worthiness to all of life.
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