Friday, March 15, 2019
Today's Gift
Take time every day to do something silly. ~Philipa Walker
Spring fever may bring out our longings and our sense of unfilled needs or attention, play, or laughter. We may be afraid to express these needs because they are not often taken seriously, but thought of as childish. We may even be afraid our needs are so enormous that they will never be satisfied, and so we keep them bottled up inside ourselves, and all we can express to others is frustration.
Spring is a reminder that we can find a way to satisfy our needs. We can give ourselves a break from work or study, laugh a little, and try to share our laughter with someone else. There are many ways to fulfill a need, and by giving what we have to offer, we may find ourselves getting back exactly what we really need, even though it may not be what we had hoped for.
In the act of giving we learn we are worth giving to also. We learn that we deserve to be loved, most of all by ourselves.
What do I think I need 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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Twenty-Four Hours a Day
Keep It Simple
We are told that laughter is sunshine filling a room. And where there is laughter, there also is life. They say that people who laugh a lot live longer than do the sour-faced. When we laugh together, gratitude comes more easily, companionship thrives, and all praise is sincere. Laughter brings us joy that cannot be bought. Such joy is with us throughout each day. To hoard joy, to hide it away deep within us away from others, will make us lonely misers. We cannot buy or trade for joy, but we can give or receive it as a gift.
Laughter's joy celebrates the moment we are living right now. It is a gift we must share, or it will wither and die. Shared, it grows and thrives, and always returns to us when we need it most.
Action for the Day: I will find to laugh about today.
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
We must avoid quick-tempered criticism and furious, power-driven argument.
The same goes for sulking or silent scorn. These are emotional booby traps
baited with pride and vengefulness. Our first job is to sidestep the traps.
When we are tempted by the bait, we should train ourselves to step back
and think. For we can neither think nor act to good purpose until the habit
of self-restraint has become automatic.
- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Ten) p. 91
Thought to Ponder
Anger is the wind that blows out the light of reason.
AA-related 'Alconym'
A N G E R = Any New Grudge Endangers Recovery
From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) http://www.aa-alive.net/index.html
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
Cheerful about it
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Daily Motivation
Cheerful about it
by Ralph Marston
When you don’t get your way, be cheerful about it. There’s no good reason to be any other way.
Being angry, spiteful, resentful, despondent, destroys your effectiveness and repels other people. That’s not going to accomplish anything good.
You can’t change the past by being angry about it. What you can do is dramatically improve the present and the future by being cheerful.
Be cheerful and you do better work, attract positive people, improve your relationships and interactions. Be cheerful, and see opportunities that you’d otherwise never notice.
Be cheerful, and escape being sizzled by stress and paralyzed by anxiety. Be cheerful, and reap all the benefits of truly enjoying the moment you’re in.
Yes, by all means be realistic. At the same time, be cheerful, and position yourself to make the very best of reality.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
When you don’t get your way, be cheerful about it. There’s no good reason to be any other way.
Being angry, spiteful, resentful, despondent, destroys your effectiveness and repels other people. That’s not going to accomplish anything good.
You can’t change the past by being angry about it. What you can do is dramatically improve the present and the future by being cheerful.
Be cheerful and you do better work, attract positive people, improve your relationships and interactions. Be cheerful, and see opportunities that you’d otherwise never notice.
Be cheerful, and escape being sizzled by stress and paralyzed by anxiety. Be cheerful, and reap all the benefits of truly enjoying the moment you’re in.
Yes, by all means be realistic. At the same time, be cheerful, and position yourself to make the very best of reality.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
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