Tuesday, April 30, 2019
Today's Gift
Addicted to Crisis
One common form of this strange addiction is procrastination. Some of us have a tendency to put off important tasks until the very last moment, and then work overtime to get the job done.
Is this laziness? Maybe it is, to some extent. Maybe, however, we need an impending emergency to get motivated and energized to do what needs to be done. Maybe we're addicted to crisis.
If so, this may be another disease that can be arrested but not cured. We arrest it by slowly adopting better work habits and paying closer attention to schedules and deadlines. Working with greater efficiency, we'll have more time and energy for the things that really matter.
Action for the Day: Today I don't need a crisis to take charge of my life and do what needs to be done. I'll tackle at least one thing I've been putting off, and either complete the task or get a good start on it.
The Right Thing
When I am willing to do the right thing, I am rewarded with an inner peace
no amount of liquor could ever provide. When I am unwilling to do the right
thing, I become restless, irritable, and discontent. It is always my choice.
Through the Twelve Steps, I have been granted the gift of choice. I am
no longer at the mercy of a disease that tells me the only answer is to drink.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, (My Chance to Live) p. 317
Thought to Ponder
When I choose the behavior, I choose the consequences.
AA-related 'Alconym'
B E S T = Been Enjoying Sobriety Today?
Give yourself more options
Accustomed as we are to change, or unaccustomed, we think of a change of heart, of clothes, of life, with some uncertainty. —Josephine Miles
Being used to a situation, even a painful one, carries with it a level of comfort. Moving away from the pain, changing the situation, be it job, home, or relationship, takes courage and support from other persons. But even more it takes faith that the change will benefit us. For most of us, the pain will need to worsen.
In retrospect, we wonder why it took us so long. We forget, from one instance to the next, that a new door cannot open until we've closed one behind us. The more important fact is that a new one will always open without fail. The pain of the old experience is trying to push us to new challenges, new opportunities, and new growth. We can handle the change; we can handle the growth. We are never given more than we can handle, and we are always given just what we need.
Experience can't prepare us for the ramifications of a new change. But our trust in friends, and our faith in the spiritual process of life, can and will see us through whatever comes.
If a change of any kind is facing me today, I will know that I am not alone. Whatever I am facing is right for me and necessary to my well-being. Life is growth. The next stage of my life awaits me.
From Each Day a New Beginning: Daily Meditations for Women 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
Walk in Dry Places
Addicted to Crisis
Personal Relations
It's sometimes a surprise to learn that we mismanage our affairs even in sobriety. We may even find that we seem to be addicted to problem situations. It takes a crisis, it seems, to give us the energy and purpose we need to get things done.
It's sometimes a surprise to learn that we mismanage our affairs even in sobriety. We may even find that we seem to be addicted to problem situations. It takes a crisis, it seems, to give us the energy and purpose we need to get things done.
One common form of this strange addiction is procrastination. Some of us have a tendency to put off important tasks until the very last moment, and then work overtime to get the job done.
Is this laziness? Maybe it is, to some extent. Maybe, however, we need an impending emergency to get motivated and energized to do what needs to be done. Maybe we're addicted to crisis.
If so, this may be another disease that can be arrested but not cured. We arrest it by slowly adopting better work habits and paying closer attention to schedules and deadlines. Working with greater efficiency, we'll have more time and energy for the things that really matter.
Action for the Day: Today I don't need a crisis to take charge of my life and do what needs to be done. I'll tackle at least one thing I've been putting off, and either complete the task or get a good start on it.
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
When I am willing to do the right thing, I am rewarded with an inner peace
no amount of liquor could ever provide. When I am unwilling to do the right
thing, I become restless, irritable, and discontent. It is always my choice.
Through the Twelve Steps, I have been granted the gift of choice. I am
no longer at the mercy of a disease that tells me the only answer is to drink.
- Alcoholics Anonymous, (My Chance to Live) p. 317
Thought to Ponder
When I choose the behavior, I choose the consequences.
AA-related 'Alconym'
B E S T = Been Enjoying Sobriety Today?
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Daily Motivation
Excerpt of The Daily Motivator
by Ralph Marston
Rather than complaining about the situation, work to give yourself more options. Rather than worrying about your vulnerability, or about the unreliability of others, give yourself more options.
When you have more options, you have more confidence, more control over your own affairs. Options give you the ability to walk away from a negotiation, and that enables you to negotiate from a position of power.
Options give you independence, the power of choice. Options provide you with multiple ways to respond to difficulty, multiple strategies for seizing opportunity.
Discovering and developing new options, takes work. That work is effort well spent because it earns you increased leverage over your circumstances.
Take inventory and ask yourself, what options do you now have? Then consider, what new options could you develop?
When you only have one possible path forward, that could be a big problem. Avoid that problem and enhance your effectiveness by working to create more options for yourself.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
Rather than complaining about the situation, work to give yourself more options. Rather than worrying about your vulnerability, or about the unreliability of others, give yourself more options.
When you have more options, you have more confidence, more control over your own affairs. Options give you the ability to walk away from a negotiation, and that enables you to negotiate from a position of power.
Options give you independence, the power of choice. Options provide you with multiple ways to respond to difficulty, multiple strategies for seizing opportunity.
Discovering and developing new options, takes work. That work is effort well spent because it earns you increased leverage over your circumstances.
Take inventory and ask yourself, what options do you now have? Then consider, what new options could you develop?
When you only have one possible path forward, that could be a big problem. Avoid that problem and enhance your effectiveness by working to create more options for yourself.
From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/
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