The Work-In: Daily Motivation 7-26-2019

Friday, July 26, 2019

Today's Gift

The more you try to control something, the more it controls you. Free yourself and let things take their own natural course. – Unknown

Stop trying so hard to control things. It is not our job to control people, outcomes, circumstances, and life. Maybe in the past we couldn't trust and let things happen. But we can now. The way life is unfolding is good. Let it unfold.

Stop trying so hard to do better, be better, and be more. Who we are and the way we do things is good enough for today.

Who we were and the way we did things yesterday was good enough for that day.

Ease up on ourselves. Let go. Stop trying so hard.

Today, I will let go. I will stop trying to control everything. I will stop trying to make myself be and do better, and I will let myself be. 

From The Language of Letting Go by Melody Beattie ©

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

The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness. --Erich Fromm

Many of us have felt so insecure, so poor, or so much the underdog that we made a fervent promise to ourselves that we'd come out on top later. We know how weak we felt, and that image continues to be our guiding force long after the weakness was overcome. We may have spiritual problems because we are blind to the reality of our present life. While grasping for more security, more love, more money, or trying to lose more weight or attract more friends, we fail to stop and realize the real rewards we already have today. We are driven by the memory of pain and insecurity, rather than rising above it and relating to the higher principles and people around us. Getting more control or more achievements does not solve our spiritual problems, but by making peace with the fact that life is insecure.

Action for the Day: Today, I will let go of my grasping for more. I will let go of it again and again throughout the day so I am not ruled by this weakness.

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

Self-Reliance
We could actually have earnest religious beliefs which remained
barren because we were still trying to play God ourselves.
As long as we placed self-reliance first, a genuine reliance upon
a Higher Power was out of the question. That basic ingredient
of all humility, a desire to seek and do our Higher Power's will, was missing.
- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, (Step Seven) p. 72

Thought to Ponder
Humility is not thinking less of myself, but thinking of myself less.

AA-related 'Alconym'
L E T _ G O = Leave Everything To God, Okay?

From: AA Thought for the Day (courtesy AA-Alive.net) http://www.aa-alive.net/index.html

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Daily Motivation

Excerpt of The Daily Motivator

Take time

by Ralph Marston

Take time to appreciate the beauty and wonder that constantly surround you. Take time to create new, original value out of the resources at your disposal.

Take time to read the instructions, and to carefully follow all the steps. Take time to plan for tomorrow and beyond.

Take time to listen. Take time to offer the encouragement and support of your presence.

Take time to consider how thankful you are for the life you have. Take time to let the other people in your life know how important they are to you.

Take time to offer kindness. Take time to understand.

Make use of your time for something other than being hurried, worried, and anxious. Take time, and spend it living well.

From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/